Tropical cyclone Idai: The storm that knew no boundaries
Tropical cyclone Idai has made headlines across southern Africa throughout the month of March. Lingering in the Mozambique Channel at tropical cyclone intensity for six days, the […]
Climate Change
Cape Town has a plan to manage its water. But there are big gaps
Jasper Knight, University of the Witwatersrand The City of Cape Town – and southwest Africa more generally – experienced its worst drought on record between […]
How environmental health workers can help climate change mitigation
All the evidence tells us that the world’s changing climate will affect more than the environment. It will have serious consequences for people’s health too. Southern Africa is […]
Small businesses in Africa will be on the frontline of climate change
Climate change is going to have huge consequences all over the world, especially in Africa. Harvests will be affected, threatening agricultural outputs. This could hurt […]
Transition is a given, but what can trade unions in the Global South do to ensure that it’s just?
The 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) begins in Katowice, Poland in a […]
Congolese trade unionist Joséphine Shimbi Umba: “We say ’protect the workers’, but which workers are we talking about if only 2.5 per cent have formal jobs?”
Joséphine Shimbi Umba is vice president of gender, the informal economy and finance at the Trade Union Confederation of Congo (La Confédération Syndicale du Congo, […]
As Kerala succumbs to the sea, the Indian government ramps up coastal construction
Between June and August this year, the southern Indian state of Kerala experienced the heaviest rainfall it had seen in over a century. More than […]
Are Africa’s climate negotiators ready for COP24?
Africa’s efficacy in global climate negotiations may only have been the subject of a short session during a two-day workshop on climate change in Africa […]
Can Saint-Louis be saved from the sea?
“You see? Right there, two metres down!” The water is murky and choppy, but it is still possible to see the roofs of some small […]
Latin America’s environmental challenge
For the 45 million indigenous people of Latin America, their link with the environment goes beyond its potential use as a resource to a spiritual […]
The racism that poisons
Three letters changed the history of Warren County, North Carolina, in 1982: PCB. This abbreviation stands for polychlorinated biphenyls, a family of toxic chemical substances […]
In DR Congo, the world’s second largest forest is being ravaged as landless communities struggle for their rights
Thousands of logs loaded into makeshift boats at the port of Inongo at Lake Mai-Ndombe stand ready to be transported to Kinshasa, the capital of […]
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