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Cleaning Up Trash in Vietnam

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup ® (ICC) engages volunteers to clean up waterways around the world. The rich mangrove forest here is considered to be the city’s lungs and is in need of protection from issues like deforestation, coastal erosion and plastic pollution.

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IPCC: The planet is on red alert

A Greener Life

Just months be fore the crucial UN climate summit, COP26 kicks off in Glasgow, UK in November the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued one of its starkest reports stating that governments have taken too long to take action and we are now paying the price. What’s to come.

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Is there any Climate Justice or is it Just-us? A focus on the Caribbean

HumanNature

The conference has been held annually since 1992 and governments use it to agree on actions to limit global temperature increases associated with climate change. Archaeology, environmental justice, and climate change on islands of the Caribbean and southwestern Indian Ocean. So why don’t these islands just adapt to climate change?