By CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON / KALOTUM Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009 When one enters the northern Kenyan village of Kalotum, the overwhelming impression is one of things missing. There are a dozen conical thatched huts and a clutch of spindly thorn trees. But there are no crops, animals or water. A quick look around reveals no men, […]
…I attended a Pan-African climate hearing in Cape Town last month where I heard stories from all over Africa about how climate change is already affecting and threatening lives. The stories I heard there were first hand accounts from people who are struggling to survive because climate change is making life so much harder for […]
By Maryam Omidi MALE (Reuters) – The Maldives, threatened by rising sea levels because of global warming, on Monday pleaded with developed nations to reduce carbon emissions and said developing nations could change the outcome at climate talks in Copenhagen. The appeal by the Indian ocean archipelago came at a climate change summit grouping Bangladesh, […]
By NATHANIAL GRONEWOLD of GreenwirePublished: November 9, 2009 First of a four-part series. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A hard rain can be deadly here. A family of four was reported killed late last month when rushing stormwater loosened soil under their hillside house and brought the structure down on them. The denuded slopes around this city […]
Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Matthew Jones GENEVA (Reuters) – Up to 750,000 people in Kenya, nearly half of them Somali refugees, could be caught up in flooding and landslides from heavy rains expected to peak in November, the United Nations warned on Friday. … An estimated 4,600 people along the Indian Ocean coast […]
Environmental Justice Foundation report says 10% of the global population is at risk of forced displacement due to climate change By John Vidal in Barcelona, guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 3 November 2009 00.05 GMT Global warming will force up to 150 million “climate refugees” to move to other countries in the next 40 years, a new report […]
Posted Thursday, October 29 2009 at 14:13 More families were displaced in Mandera Central district as heavy rains continue to pound the area for the last three days in row. Millions of property including food rations were destroyed in flash flood that also cut off many roads in the North-Eastern Province. The displaced families who […]
By Standard Team Flooding has claimed three lives, displaced hundreds and cut off towns following heavy rainfall, even as meteorologists warn it would get worse. The most affected areas are Coast and North Eastern provinces, which have seen a sudden increase in rainfall in line with the Meteorological Department’s forecast in August that flooding, would […]
By Kathy Marks in Sydney Many people believe the budgerigar’s natural habitat is a pet shop. In fact, the bird is a native of the Australian outback, and locals there are saying they have rarely seen flocks of the size that are descending on Queensland this year. Some are calling it a “beautiful plague”. […]
African leaders recognised climate change as a major cause of human displacement during a two-day summit on the plight of the continent’s refugees which closed Friday in Kampala. Several African nations adopted a document on the rights of the continent’s 17 million internally-displaced persons (IDP), refugees and returnees. “The important thing about this convention is […]
