We put together a list of staff recommendations of our podcast for your summer listening. This is a collage of the guests of those episodes.
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Cape Town’s storms caused severe flooding and extreme winds that fan wildfires. Early warning systems are important in protecting people from these dangers.
Homes marooned by rising flood water at Muhoro in Tanzania’s Rufiji District village in April, 2024.
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Recent flooding in Tanzania prompted debate about the role of a new megadam. This matters as climate change models predict flooding could increase.
Making connections between consumer choices, marketing approaches and environmental impacts matters for our shared future. Clothes in a bin in Costa Blanca, Spain.
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Resources from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization can help marketing programs embed sustainability concerns into marketing education.
Water bodies such as the Nile River, pictured here running through Juba in South Sudan, are included in the new model.
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African cities with over 10 million residents are getting hotter fast. Millions face disaster in these urban heat islands unless the cities start greening and adapting to climate change soon.
Rangelands provide a wealth of ecosystem services and support rural economies while harbouring native biodiversity.
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Planting millions of trees in natural grassland is largely ineffective in the battle against global warming because it adds little or no additional carbon storage.
Farm workers in South Africa will face difficulty working through heatwaves if global warming continues.
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The University of Cape Town’s new report on the impacts of climate change in South Africa found that heatwaves and water stress will affect jobs, deepen inequality, and increase gender-based violence.
Flamingos in Lake Nakuru, Kenya.
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If accessible crisis information is not accurate, complete, up to date and high quality, there can be life and death consequences for people with disability in a bushfire, flood or pandemic.
This trade in fish at Lake Kariba has dwindled as the water levels drop and fish spawning areas diminish.
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Lake Kariba stretches between Zimbabwe and Zambia. Its residents are bearing the brunt of a climate change-induced drought, with fish supplies dwindling and human-wildlife conflict occurring.
Several parts of the world are suffering from extreme heat events.
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New climate change modelling has found that as the earth heats up, venomous snake populations in Africa are likely to move across borders in search of places to live.
The education of students in countries like Sudan is already being negatively affected by the extremes of climate change.
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Teaching children about the environmental crisis can help fight climate change, but climate change is already negatively affecting children’s education around the globe.
Grace Augustine talks about her interviews with people who’ve chosen to leave their jobs over climate change concerns on The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Road collapse in northern Kenya due to flash floods on 22 November 2023.
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Erle C. Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Scientists have been debating the start of the Anthropocene Epoch for 15 years. I was part of those discussions, and I agree with the vote rejecting it.
A new study reveals that from 2050, Africa will suffer from food and water scarcity, and a massive loss of jobs in agriculture, unless climate change mitigation measures are put in place now.