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A decentralised climate organisation, based on blockchain, could help get the world to work together to act against climate change.
Traditional ecological knowledge involves an interaction between cultural practice, cultural belief and adaptive capacity to deal with climate impacts.
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Traditional ecological knowledge of Indigenous peoples offers ways to adapt to climate impacts.
Charipara village is flooded by the sea as Cyclone Amphan destroyed embankments in Kalapara Upazila in Patuakhali District, Bangladesh. Date: 3 June 2020.
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Cyclone Amphan was one of the worst cyclones to hit Bangladesh in modern times. But thanks to local action, many lives were saved.
A climate action march in London, February 2020, before the onset of lockdown.
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By self-isolating, people all over the world are acting for the collective good. That’s encouraging for tackling climate change.
Saving energy can save money and the environment.
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Efficient technologies can save Indonesians not only billions of rupiah but also avoid the need to built 50 power plants by 2030.
The normally bustling Galata Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, is empty. March 19 2020.
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And why COVID-19 has launched a response that the climate crisis couldn’t.
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The response to coronavirus shows us that people can still work together to do the right thing.
A woman takes part in an alternative summit of indigenous people during COP25.
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Our research has brought us into contact with multiple communities whose lives are increasingly precarious thanks to climate change.
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All eggs in supermarket Morrisons will soon be free range. But this – and other measures intended to promote ethical consumption – could impact badly on the worst off.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attends a climate strike outside the Swedish parliament, December 20 2019.
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Instead of Tudors and Churchill, history students need to learn how civilisation has arrived at the point of no return.
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Making ammonia produces almost 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions.
Indigenous young people take part in the first Hornbill Festival organized by the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS), 16 September 2018.
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The world’s millions of indigenous people play a critical role in conserving biodiversity.
Albert Bierstadt, Rocky Mountain Landscape, 1870.
Literature of the past can help us to make the cultural shift that’s necessary to address climate change.
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Our climate is changing – and so must architecture.
Village Forests can reduce poverty and also deforestation if done properly.
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Village Forests under the Social forestry Scheme can not only reduce poverty but also deforestation, study finds.
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Although China’s tree-planting efforts have increased carbon sequestration for climate mitigation and protected the soil from erosion, they have also led to drastic water shortages.
Montreal climate march, September 27 2019.
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New research shows changing your lifestyle for environmental reasons can lead you into political action.
Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist, addresses a press conference during the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, January 22 2020.
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Jane Goodall’s comments at Davos may seem harmless, but they reflect a dangerous misreading of the climate crisis that needs to be challenged.
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Psychedelic drugs are creating waves as evidence mounts of their therapeutic potential. New research also suggests they might mitigate the climate crisis by unlocking a lost connection to nature.
Merapi Eruption by Night, by Raden Saleh, 1865.
The Tambora-Frankenstein myth silences Shelley’s critique of science.