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Indigenous people and climate change: With Aboriginal Australians when the bush burns (3/4)
It's June 2023, which means it's bushfire season in Arnhem Land, in northern Australia. For generations, the Aboriginal Australians who live there have used the technique of fire to better control their harvests and prevent massive bushfires.
One year after France's Gironde wildfires, bark beetles attack forests
In the forest of La Teste-de-Buch, in south-western France, 3,500 hectares went up in flames last year. Since then, loggers have worked overtime, fighting a war on two fronts: to cut down and sell on the burnt wood for whatever it might still be good for, and also limit the spread of the bark beetle, a winged insect capable of colonising trees within a 10 to 20-kilometre radius.
Indigenous people and climate change: With the Inuit when the ice melts (2/4)
It's May 2023 and the remote village of Ittoqqortoormiit, on the east coast of Greenland, is 25 kilometres short of sea ice. Indigenous people who hunt seals and polar bears have abandoned their traditional sled dogs for motorboats.
Eamon Ryan says Saudi Arabia should spend more on climate change than golf
Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan has said Saudi Arabia should be focusing on spending more money on clean energy rather than investing in golf and football teams.
Indigenous people and climate change: With Kenya's Turkana people, when drought kills (1/4)
It's March 2023 in Kenya and the Turkana people are still waiting for rain. They’ve been waiting for five long years. These nomadic herders live in the arid northwest of the East African country. For centuries, their lives have been determined by the alternating dry and rainy seasons. But now the water has stopped coming, leaving the land parched.
'I will be completely independent': New EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra
Hoekstra insists that his past association with Shell does not make him the wrong person for the job. "I worked for them until, I think, 2004. So not exactly the Stone Age, but quite a while ago. I will be absolutely, completely independent, and make sure that we speak truth to power when that is required," Hoekstra says.
Climate crisis: French Alps hit by increasing rockfalls
The phenomenon is not new, but scientists say it has accelerated rapidly. In 2022, some 250 rockslides were reported in the Mont-Blanc range alone. Since the 1970s, such events have increased tenfold.