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Global Climate Change: Will India Follow?
The breakthrough collaborative announcement by the United States and China on curbing greenhouse gases has sparked a global movement on climate change. For many years, international climate talks have...
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Helping Poor Countries Deal with Climate Change
It is unfortunate for a family to go without food or water for extensive periods of time. However, the real disaster is climate change. In the world’s poorest countries, where carbon emissions are at...
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Religion’s Role in Climate Change and Poverty
Pope Francis will deliver an encyclical this summer on the subject of climate change. In preparation for the speech, the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences held a heavily attended workshop on...
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Climate Change as a Health Threat
Climate Change is often discussed in relation to protecting the planet and the species, not necessarily that it is a growing non-traditional security threat. The discussions are moving in this...
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New Support for a Price on Carbon
Over the past few years, the debate around climate change has shifted dramatically. The global community has accepted that not only is global warming happening, but that human beings are the ones...
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Artificial Trees Absorb a Thousand Times More CO2
Scientists have been arguing for a reduction in carbon emissions ever since the effects of global warming were recognized. Now, to further aid the fight against increased global warming, some of these...
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Impact of the Papal Encyclical on Global Poverty
Pope Francis’s encyclical is a timely response to the world’s most pressing challenge. Already, climate change is contributing to the deaths of nearly 400,000 people every year. Attached, comes a...
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Celebrities to Take Part in Project Everyone Campaign
From Sept. 26 to Oct. 2, the United Nations, along with celebrities Ed Sheeran, Freida Pinto and Richard Curtis, will promote various goals through media to end extreme poverty and confront climate...
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Ensuring Food Security With Sustainable Soil Management
Although 795 million people worldwide are still undernourished, global hunger has been steadily declining in recent years. This is due to a combination of factors, such as social protection programs,...
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Bangladeshi Floating Schools Redefine Accessible Education
Since 2002, 70,000 children have benefitted from Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha’s 20 solar-powered floating schools. Bangladesh, a nation plagued by incessant monsoons, often has a disrupted school...
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One Direction Launches Anti-Poverty Campaign
One Direction is coming to Seattle. The world-renowned teen heartthrob band One Direction has recently made an important addition to their laundry list of achievements. The band members have...
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Climate Change Refugees and the Man from Kiribati
A man from Kiribati, a tiny Pacific island, has asked New Zealand to officially recognize him as a climate change refugee. New Zealand refused what was the world’s first appeal for climate change...
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USAID Helps Vietnam Boost Rice Yields
As climate change effects agriculture across the developing world, food security is a painful reality for farmers who depend on their crops to eat and eke out a meager living. Every grain of rice they...
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What the Pope’s Encyclical Means for the World’s Poor
In June, Pope Francis aligned himself with mainstream science by accepting the truth of climate change. With the release of his 184 page encyclical that calls for immediate action on climate change,...
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The World’s Poorest Citizens and Climate Change
Climate change, once considered an extremely controversial subject that provoked bipartisan deadlock within American politics, is now widely accepted as an unfortunate reality by many of the world’s...
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Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change?
It is no mystery these days that scientists have told Africa to brace itself for potentially devastating impacts of global climate change, and that the rural and the poor are likely to be hit the...
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What Global Warming Means for Food Scarcity
The number of devastating effects that global warming has on the Earth is already staggering. According to a new report, “increased food scarcity” is going to make that list a little longer. The...
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Climate Change and Food Security in the South Pacific
As climate change is debated hotly by the biggest carbon emitters of the world, temperatures increase and ocean levels rise, dramatically impacting the innocent. Although almost unnoticeable on the...
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Why Burning Coal Hurts the Poor
A new report points to renewable energy as the most efficient poverty-fighting strategy rather than burning coal. The study by Oxfam Australia revealed that coal is a poor power source for the...
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Arsenal Football Club Supports Save The Children Challenge
Arsenal Football Club has teamed up with Save The Children to support efforts to end extreme poverty, inequality and climate change with the #DizzyGoals Challenge. In a video sanctioned by...
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