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Image by Tanpa Dhakal via Nepali Times, used with permission. This story was originally published by Tanka Dhakal at the Nepali Times. An edited version is republished below as part of a content-sharing agreement. Yaks, which used to be the mainstay of the culture of Himalayan communities in Nepal, have been in steady decline because of lifestyle changes, human outmigration, inbreeding, and the impact of the climate crisis. The National Agricultural Census shows that the total number of yaks in Nepal went down from 53,000 to 48,000 over the past three years. There are now fewer than 10,000 hou...
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Feature image of avocados via Canva Pro. In Samuel Beckett's “Waiting for Godot,” often described as the play in which nothing happens, the two main characters basically talk to each other under a leafless tree while awaiting the arrival of the mysterious Godot, who never shows up. The Caribbean in hurricane season should be so lucky. Instead, characters — because it often feels like an apocalyptic movie scene — huddle under shelter, too apprehensive to talk much as they await the arrival of the storm du jour, which almost always shows up. For these islands on the frontline of the climate cris...
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Feature image via Canva Pro. At approximately 11:10 a.m. (UTC-4) on Monday, July 1, the eye of the record-breaking Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the tiny island of Carriacou in the Grenadines. An 11:15 a.m. update from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, said that the storm had continued to intensify, with maximum sustained winds of 241.4 kilometres (150 miles) per hour. The hurricane is currently moving in a west-northwesterly direction at a pace of about 32 km (20 miles) per hour. Other locations in the Grenadines, including Union Island and Petite Martinique have been experi...
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Sipadol village in Bhaktapur district in Central Nepal just a year apart between 2022 to 2023. Photo by Amit Machamasi. Used with permission. This story was originally published by Nepali Times. An edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Kathmandu Valley, once known for its bumper harvests of rice, has seen declining production because urban expansion is devouring once-fertile rice fields. There are still some terraces on the outskirts of the city that have rice fields, but even these are threatened by new settlements. The same is true of Pokhara ...
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London carried out a training exercise to test its ability to cope with 40C heat on Thursday. Named ‘Operation Helios’ after the Greek god of the sun, it explored a scenario where extreme heat hits the capital for five days - one scientists warn could be a reality as early as 2027. It was led by Greater London Authority’s London Resilience Unit and involved more than 80 participants from emergency services to local government, environment agencies and transport companies. It comes after the London Climate Resilience Review published a report in March which recommended that the city test its pr...
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Image by Arzu Geybullayeva, Canva. Summer wildfires have become a usual norm in Turkey. Every year, forests, residential rural settlements and agricultural land burn to the ground as a result. But just as the fires have become a norm, so has the criticism of the state, for its failure to invest and improve its first response infrastructure, quick intervention, and faster dispatch of rescuers. Experts say while climate change or excessive weather conditions may have had a role to play, these crises were also an outcome of poor planning and incorrect decisions made at the government level. On Ju...
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No internet in Gaza. Screenshot from a video “Can Starlink Provide Internet To Gaza?” by Interesting Engineering. Fair use. When the combination of big tech and politics failed the Palestinian people by overlooking the internet disruptions affecting Gaza, grassroots technology known as the “network tree” came to the rescue. Utilizing the humblest of elements such as buckets, smartphones, and e-SIMs, this ingeniously simple technology provided much-needed connectivity to a community fragmented by war, in the face of severely damaged infrastructure. Since the war on Gaza began in the aftermath o...
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Climate disasters are getting worse, but fewer people are dying thanks to better warning systems and planning, says a top UN official. "Fewer people are dying of disasters and if you look at that as a proportion of total population, it's even fewer," the new United Nations Assistant Secretary-General Kamal Kishore, head the UN's office for disaster risk reduction, said. “Twenty years ago there was no tsunami early warning system except for one small part of the world. Now the whole world is covered by a tsunami warning system," he said, referring to the 2004 tsunami that claimed approximately ...
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Port Moresby (AFP) - Des vivres et des médicaments ont commencé à arriver mercredi sur le site d'un glissement de terrain qui a décimé un village entier en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, où les humanitaires découvrent des enfants rendus muets par le choc de la catastrophe. Quelque 2.000 personnes pourraient être ensevelies sous le vaste glissement de terrain qui a détruit une localité des hautes terres de la province d'Enga, au centre du pays, tôt le 24 mai, selon le gouvernement. Après plusieurs jours de fouilles à l'aide d'outils de fortune, seuls six corps ont été retirés de la coulée de boue. ...
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Live helicopter footage on TV caught a stranded horse trying to escape the floods in Brazil. Image by Globonews, edited by Global Voices. Footage taken by a helicopter camera was being broadcast live on Brazilian TV, capturing a flooded neighborhood in the city of Canoas, when it caught a stranded horse standing on a rooftop — the only visible part of the building above the water. Estimating the building's height, the height of the tree to the right, or the depth beneath the surface was challenging just by looking. During the brief time he was filmed, the horse stood still — fragile, exhausted...
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