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Climate Migration: Preparing for Waves of Global Displacement

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Climate migration is already happening, and our global and domestic regimes fail to adapt at our shared peril.

Vietnam Needs NGOs and Youth to Meet Climate Change Challenges

Students doing field work in Hau Giang Province and Can Tho City, learning to collect data on surface-water and riverbed water and sediment quality changes. Photo credit: Nguyen Minh Quang, co-founder Mekong Environment Forum, modified, all rights reserved for author.

By leveraging the unique strengths of NGOs and youth, Vietnam can create a more resilient and adaptive society, capable of addressing the multifaceted challenges of climate change.

Small States, Big Impact: CARICOM’s High-level Diplomatic Successes

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The group’s latest diplomatic victories are highlighting a critical role for small states’ leadership in the international community.

‘Twice in a Lifetime’ Floods Ravage Pakistan in 2022

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Just 12 years removed from devastating floods in 2010, Pakistan is reeling from another extreme weather event, with long-term political and economic risks abound.

Record Northwest Drought Imperils US Wheat Crop

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Wheat farmers in Washington, Montana, and Idaho stand to suffer as global prices tick upward on supply concerns.

Farmers Braced for Water Shortages as Reservoirs Dry Up in Mexico

Dry riverbed in Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park, Texas, United States. Rio Grande facing downstream (Mexico on right, United States on left). Note: The river was flowing adjacent, large enough for people to canoe down it. This photo is a closeup of a sand bar., cc SCEhardt, modified, public domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Bend_National_Park_-_Rio_Grande_riverbed_with_cracked_mud.jpg

Decades of overconsumption has been exacerbated by acute drought, and the result is a brewing water crisis in Mexico.

Water Scarcity Monitor: Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Chile

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Examining three of the most water-stressed countries in the world according to the World Resources Institute (WRI)

Ethiopia: A Geopolitical Time Bomb in the Making

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Ethiopia’s climate-sensitive economy, growing population, and inter-ethnic conflict make it a geopolitical time bomb primed to explode.

Backgrounder: Agriculture 4.0 in Vietnam

cc Vietnam News Agency (VNA), modified, Vụ mùa năm 2018, toàn huyện Ðiện Biên (Điện Biên) gieo cấy gần 6.400ha lúa nước và hơn 2.200ha lúa nương chủ yếu là các giống lúa: Bắc thơm số 7, IR64, Nếp 97, 98... Năng suất lúa trung bình toàn huyện ước đạt gần 60 tạ/ha, sản lượng ước đạt trên 37.800 tấn. Ảnh: Phan Tuấn Anh - TTXVN

In Vietnam we can see many of the challenges, and solutions, to farming in the era of climate change.

Locust Swarms Descend on East Africa’s Agricultural Heartland

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A food crisis of biblical proportions is brewing in East Africa.

The Geopolitical Impact of Climate Change in Vietnam

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As a country that’s particularly susceptible to climate change, Vietnam will face a daunting assortment of security, economic, and political challenges in the decades to come.

Is Indonesia Abandoning Its Capital?

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Sure, Jakarta might be underwater in less than five decades. But doing something about it is easier said than done.

The Green New Deal and the War on Commercial Aviation

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Though we may take it for granted, air travel is still a miracle of modern society.

Outlook 2019: The Year in Drought

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Tracking some of the most vulnerable and food-insecure regions in what is expected to be the hottest year ever.

2018 IPCC Report: Demise of the ‘Here-Us-Now’ Civilization

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A new world of consensus and collaboration is not a better place. It is the only way for the human race to survive.

2018 Iran Water Conflict: Farmers Take on the Establishment

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Water shortages are fueling protests in Iran, drawing a forceful response from the authorities.

Climate Change: Unfit for the Residual Heat

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New strategies must be explored to address the climate change elephant in the room: industrial heat.

The Hidden Price of Interlinking Rivers in India

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Are the economic benefits of India’s interlinking river project worth the massive and largely unquantified ecological risks?

Adani Scandal Threatens Australia’s Carmichael Coal Mine

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Adani’s renewed scandal and financing challenges are calling the future of one of the world’s largest new coal mines into question.

Outlook 2018: The Year in Drought

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Droughts disrupted food production and spurred migration and conflict worldwide in 2017. Will 2018 be any different?

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