‘Slow-motion disaster’: Panama’s Indigenous leave home as sea levels rise
The Guna people of Panama’s sinking Gardi Sugdub island are planning to move to the mainland to escape rising sea levels. ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Vanuatu breaks ground with ‘loss and damage’ costing in new climate plan
Thomson Reuters Foundation Pacific island state Vanuatu has submitted a “groundbreaking” update to its commitments under the Paris climate accord to include phasing out fossil fuels and a costing of how it aims to tackle destruction caused by rising seas and wild weather. Climate experts said that while most national contributions focus on cutting planet-heating […]
Fiji, moving villages inundated by rising seas, wants big emitters to pay
Serua, FijiReuters Boats moor next to living rooms on Fiji’s Serua Island, where water breaches the seawall at high tide, flooding into the village. Planks of wood stretch between some homes, forming a makeshift walkway as saltwater inundates gardens. Village elders always believed they would die here on prized land where their chiefs are buried. […]
Postcards: Tunisia’s lagoon farmers cling on as sea level rises
JIHED ABIDELLAOUI, of Reuters, reports on the challenges facing farmers on Tunisia’s Ghar El Melh wetlands…
Bangladesh: For climate migrants, pandemic job cuts fuel “multiple crises”
NAIMUL KARIM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the challenges facing those forced to leave their homes due to the changing climate…
Miami building collapse puts spotlight on climate change risks
New York, USThomson Reuters Foundation Concerns that rising sea levels and extreme weather may have played a role in the collapse of a 12-story apartment tower near Miami Beach last month could have far-reaching consequences for other coastal cities and buildings around the world. With investigations ongoing, it is too early to say what caused […]
Faced with climate challenges, Vietnamese rice farmers switch to shrimp
Tran De, VietnamReuters For years, Ta Thi Thanh Thuy toiled on a sliver of land sandwiched between the Mekong River and the South China Sea, a region widely known as Vietnam’s rice bowl, to grow the prized grain. But Thuy, along with many of her neighbours, has over the past decade completed a production swap […]
Migration to flee rising seas could affect 1.3 million Bangladeshis by 2050
Dhaka, BangladeshThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladeshi migrants leaving the coast due to rising sea levels could trigger waves of migration across the country that will affect at least 1.3 million people by 2050, according to a new study. A new mathematical model predicts the country’s southern regions along the Bay of Bengal will be the first […]
Prince William calls for action on climate in new documentary
London, UKReuters Prince William has expressed his concerns about rising sea levels and other impacts of climate change in a television documentary to be aired in Britain on Monday, the ITV channel reported. William, grandson of Queen Elizabeth and second-in-line to the British throne, was interviewed on the royal Sandringham Estate, which is located in […]
CLIMATE CHANGE: “WE CAN’T CLOSE OUR EYES”, SAYS MARSHALL ISLES EX-PRESIDENT
NICOLE MILNE, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, speaks with Hilda Heine, the Pacific island’s first female leader, following her loss at the nation’s recent presidential election…