A worker carries trees to be planted during a reforestation project in Nova Mutum, Brazil, 2020. Latin America is one of the regions most vulnerable to climate change, but adaptation and mitigation projects are increasing in the region (Credit: Alexandre Meneghini / Alamy) By Alejandra CuéllarMÉXICO, Aug 31 2022 (IPS) […]

Country: World Source: UN Children’s Fund The climate crisis is here and accelerating. Adaptation and resilience building offers the most effective way to protect child lives and family livelihoods from the immediate and expected impacts.

Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait and Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council meet students at the Souza Gare school in the Littoral region, Cameroon. The school hosts displaced children who have fled the violence in the North-West and South-West regions. Credit: ECW/Daniel Beloumou By Joyce […]

Countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan Sources: Government of Pakistan, UN Country Team in Pakistan The FRP focuses on 5.2 million people, covering food security, agriculture and livestock, shelter and non-food items, nutrition, health, protection, water and sanitation, women’s health and education.

Photo: Pixabay/richardpics Two wild animals that strayed from their ordinary habitats and into close proximity to humans were recently killed in high-profile cases. The life of Freya the walrus was ended by officials in Oslo on August 14 2022, reportedly because the animal posed a threat to humans. Four days earlier, the life of […]

A view of two towers in Vaca Muerta, the field whose discovery gave Argentina huge potential in shale gas and oil. Since 2011, governments have dreamed of fully exploiting it, but have been unable to do so, so the country spends billions of dollars annually on imports of gas. CREDIT: […]