Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Climate & Environment

Brazil floods

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited impacted areas in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo.

Published on: 22 February, 2023

Devastating floods in Sao Paulo state

Local government has declared a state of alert in the area as entire neighbourhoods are underwater, debris from hillside houses swept away by oozing earth, ..

Published on: 21 February, 2023

Madagascar cyclone

Mauritius has grounded flights and shut its stock exchange on Monday in anticipation of the cyclone.

Published on: 21 February, 2023

The largest climate-change experiments

The goal is to understand how climate change will affect Minnesota’s northern forest peatlands, massive wetlands that provide a habitat to spruce and tamarack trees, ..

Published on: 21 February, 2023

Cyclone Gabrielle

Residents of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, are being asked to prepare for cyclone Gabrielle.

Published on: 13 February, 2023

Chile’s uncontrolled fires

About 20 people have been arrested on suspicion of having set some of the fires.

Published on: 12 February, 2023

More fires are expected in Chile

High temperatures are forecast through Friday and could rise above 35 degrees Celsius in the central Mauley Ñuble regions.

Published on: 9 February, 2023

World’s biodiversity crisis

The WWF estimates that Earth is losing species at thousands of times the natural extinction rate, due to human-led causes.

Published on: 12 December, 2022

Australia environment ruling

Drilling was suspended at the Barossa project off northern Australia after a judge on Sept. 21 found that the offshore regulator’s approval of Santos’ drilling ..

Published on: 5 December, 2022

The effect of climate on world heritage

On the agenda is the effect of climate on world heritage, the importance of doing more to preserve African heritage as well as announcing a ..

Published on: 17 November, 2022

Madagascar is facing drought

Consecutive poor seasons and extreme weather disasters, as well as mismanagement of resources, have left most of the country’s south dry and in famine conditions.

Published on: 15 November, 2022

Cop 27

The COP27 summit follows a year of such disasters, from floods that killed more than 1,700 people in Pakistan to drought-withering crops in China, Africa ..

Published on: 8 November, 2022