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Most Affected, Least Heard: Centring the Global South’s Earth Defenders
Photo credit: WFP/Giulio d’Adamo – Rosa helps plant mangrove tree forests, a threatened ecosystem in Colombia. “The Global South is not on the front page, but it is on the front line”, argues Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate. Her words highlight an imbalance: many nations in the Global South are among the most vulnerable to climate…
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No Graves in Ogoniland
How Shell Poisoned a People and Stole Their Right to Mourn It was 1956 when Shell first came to Ogoniland, a lush region in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Huge quantities of oil were discovered there, and by 1958, extraction had begun. This initially brought hope to the Ogoni people. It was seen as the dawn…
Sailing to Brazil for the COP30 climate summit. And beyond…