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Climate change glossary: the terms you need to understand, explained

Leave a Comment / Dialogue / Shalinee Kumari

As the world warms due to climate change, threatening millions of lives and livelihoods, nothing is more urgent than clear communication about the changing climate and its consequences. But too often, discussions around climate change are heavy on jargon and technical terms, excluding the wider public from conversations of life-altering importance. However, we cannot abandon […]

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Mapping Migration: Why Is Everyone Moving?

Leave a Comment / Dialogue / Bob Stanley Gardner

Migration is a key factor determining a region’s population growth, structure, and composition. All the civilisations existing today, including the ones we know of, are products of migration. Migration is also how humanity advances as an organisation, and it is undoubtedly the most invasive species, both collectively and individually. The Cradle of Humanity We can

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One Planet, One Ocean: Spreading Ocean Literacy

Leave a Comment / Dialogue / Bob Stanley Gardner

We live on a planet where water is ubiquitous. It covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and is responsible for 50% of the oxygen production on our planet. Even though we know of more than one ocean, they essentially function as one huge body of water. Both the salt/ocean water (97%) and the freshwater (03%)

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India’s policymakers get detailed data to help manage disasters

Leave a Comment / Dialogue / Joydeep Gupta

As disasters worsen due to climate change, a new report reveals what to expect in every district of the country in the hope of mitigating the human costs As India steels itself for more frequent and severe disasters due to climate change, a clearer picture of when and where they might hit is crucial for

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Does Solar Energy Pay Off Its Carbon Debt?

3 Comments / Dialogue / Shalomin Gardner

The global population is increasing and it seems only obvious that the available sources of energy will deplete. And this increasing population will consume finite resources to meet our energy requirements. Currently, there are only a handful of coal and petroleum mines that are meeting the energy demand of the growing 7 billion people. On

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Climate Finance: The great gap in Climate Legal Frameworks

1 Comment / Dialogue / Gastón N. Poncini

When we hear about or worse, suffer directly from a heatwave, flood, or a big fire, there’s no place for doubt that what stands behind it is climate change. Some call it global warming, others climate change, but an increasing number of people recognise it as a climate crisis. When faced with any social, environmental,

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A Polar-Centric Approach to Understanding the Arctic Climate Crisis vis-à-vis Global Politics and Commerce

18 Comments / Dialogue / Bob Stanley Gardner

Much of the prevalent discourse on the environment, resource economy, climate change, etc., has been focused on the polar regions to a great extent. Yet most of these discursive exercises focus more on these phenomena than the region itself. The region with its peculiar geographical features and characteristics affects the global political, economic, commercial, and

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