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					<title>During Nepal floods, decentralized, community-based warning saved lives</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/during-nepal-floods-decentralized-community-based-warning-saved-lives/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Sep 2026 08:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Global, Himalayas, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate Change, Communication, Disasters, early warning, and Global Environmental Crisis]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — At 9:10 a.m. on Aug. 26, head teacher Rajendra Dawadi received frantic phone calls about a flood heading downstream toward Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School. He ordered his roughly 900 students to run for higher ground. Ten minutes later, the flood hit the evacuated school. When flood waters receded, the whole compound was buried [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — At 9:10 a.m. on Aug. 26, head teacher Rajendra Dawadi received frantic phone calls about a flood heading downstream toward Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School. He ordered his roughly 900 students to run for higher ground. Ten minutes later, the flood hit the evacuated school. When flood waters receded, the whole compound was buried under debris, with only a fragment of the school’s roofline left showing. There were two “systems” that warned people about the impending danger that day: one built by the state relying on sensors and SMS messages, the other relying on community-based ties. Only the second worked reliably, and in the case of Dawadi and many other survivors, it even arrived first. But not everyone was as lucky. According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA), as of Sept. 3, a total of 1,252  people have died, with 4,216 more missing and roughly 1.6 million people affected across five districts in Nepal. Headteacher Rajendra Dawadi of Tribhuvan Trishuli Secondary School, talks to relatives on his mobile phone in Trishuli Valley in Nepal. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Communication researcher Bhuwan KC observed that while one-half of the corridor (upstream) had no information at all, the other had information, but that information couldn’t convey urgency and scale. In areas nearest to the border, on both the Nepal and China sides, everything happened in just seven minutes. The sensors were knocked out immediately. But farther down, in Trishuli Bazaar, Betrawati and toward Muglin and Devghat, people&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/during-nepal-floods-decentralized-community-based-warning-saved-lives/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How saline drinking water raises preeclampsia risks in coastal Bangladesh (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/how-saline-drinking-water-raises-preeclampsia-risks-in-coastal-bangladesh-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Jul 2026 16:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ashik Rubaiyat]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Agriculture, Aquaculture, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Commentary, Drinking Water, Ecology, Fisheries, Storms, Water Pollution, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[Hypertensive or high blood pressure disorders are among the leading causes of maternal deaths in low-income countries. A pregnancy complication known as preeclampsia, a hypertensive disorder, is listed among the top five causes of maternal deaths in Bangladesh. For expectant women with preeclampsia, timely treatment is required; otherwise, it can lead to issues such as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Hypertensive or high blood pressure disorders are among the leading causes of maternal deaths in low-income countries. A pregnancy complication known as preeclampsia, a hypertensive disorder, is listed among the top five causes of maternal deaths in Bangladesh. For expectant women with preeclampsia, timely treatment is required; otherwise, it can lead to issues such as elevated liver enzymes, low platelet count syndrome, hepatic failure, coma or loss of life.The Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the U.N. set an ambitious target to reduce the maternal mortality rate to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by the end of 2030. While many developed nations have already achieved the U.N. target, low- and middle-income countries are yet to achieve these goals. In Bangladesh, the maternal mortality rate is 196 per 100,000 live births and rates remain significantly higher in the neighboring countries . A recent study reported an association between hypertension, preeclampsia and high-salinity drinking water. The same study argues that, in Bangladesh, preeclampsia is associated with high-salt drinking water. Epidemiological evidence links high salt intake to hypertension in both adults and children. The scarcity of safe drinking water has become a serious global issue due to agricultural expansion, sea level rise caused by global warming and population growth. The IPCC, in its sixth Assessment Report (AR6), stated that climate change affects water availability and water quality. Globally, around 4 billion people face water scarcity for at least one month each year. Storm surges and rising sea levels make it easier for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/how-saline-drinking-water-raises-preeclampsia-risks-in-coastal-bangladesh-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-324396</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Australia’s seagrass meadows under pressure as climate change turns up the heat</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/australias-seagrass-meadows-under-pressure-as-climate-change-turns-up-the-heat/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Jul 2026 15:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia, Great Barrier Reef, and Oceania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Biodiversity, Climate, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystem Engineers, Ecosystems, Environment, Global Warming, Habitat, Impact Of Climate Change, Marine, Marine Conservation, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Plants, Research, Restoration, Science, Seagrass, Solutions, Temperatures, and Water Pollution]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is renowned for its coral, but far less so for its expansive seagrass meadows. “People don&#8217;t dive on them, don&#8217;t snorkel on them, and don&#8217;t go rock pooling on them,” said Emma Jackson, director of the Coastal Marine Ecosystems Research Centre (CMERC) at Central Queensland University. She’s a self-confessed seagrass nerd. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is renowned for its coral, but far less so for its expansive seagrass meadows. “People don&#8217;t dive on them, don&#8217;t snorkel on them, and don&#8217;t go rock pooling on them,” said Emma Jackson, director of the Coastal Marine Ecosystems Research Centre (CMERC) at Central Queensland University. She’s a self-confessed seagrass nerd. One reason, she said, is because “they have this wealth of different ecosystem services.” Though they’re known as the “ugly cousins” of coral reefs, these flowering grass-like plants provide a home and foraging grounds for marine life, as well as habitat for commercial fish species. These meadows stabilize sediments, help cleanse the water column and sequester substantial amounts of carbon. “I think when people understand that, then they can share my nerdiness and share that passion for seagrass,” Jackson said. Emma Jackson, who directs CMERC (right), envisions large-scale restoration using many seagrass species, with the process as routine as seeding a lawn. Image courtesy CMERC. The Great Barrier Reef is home to around 3.5 million hectares (8.6 million acres) of seagrass, an area larger than Belgium, which accounts for about 11% of the world’s total. Australia is a global hotspot of seagrass biodiversity, hosting around half of the world’s 60 species of the plants. But as climate change ratchets up temperatures and triggers more frequent extreme weather events, Australia’s marine meadows are increasingly battered by intense storms and cyclones, flooding, and devastating marine heat waves. Algal blooms are also impacting seagrasses by blocking out sunlight&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/australias-seagrass-meadows-under-pressure-as-climate-change-turns-up-the-heat/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-322342</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Wildlife’s unpredictable movements make climate-change planning difficult</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/wildlifes-unpredictable-movements-make-climate-change-planning-difficult/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Jul 2026 10:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Gloria Dickie]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Animal Behavior, Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Biology, Carnivores, Cats, Climate, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Extreme Weather, Fragmentation, Habitat, Impact Of Climate Change, Mammals, Megafauna, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Protected Areas, Research, Science, Temperatures, Threatened species, Top Predators, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[New England’s winters have long been a punishing force. Forests fade in and out of deep freezes. Animals pile on fat for warmth in anticipation of the harsh weather to come. Others flee south, seeking warmer refuges. However, over the past 50 years, winters there have become much milder. In the northeastern U.S., winters now [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[New England’s winters have long been a punishing force. Forests fade in and out of deep freezes. Animals pile on fat for warmth in anticipation of the harsh weather to come. Others flee south, seeking warmer refuges. However, over the past 50 years, winters there have become much milder. In the northeastern U.S., winters now average between 4 and 5 degrees Fahrenheit (2.2 and 2.7 degrees Celsius) warmer than in the 1970s. Snowfall can be sparse, and there are usually fewer days of extreme cold. For decades, ecologists have expected that animals living within narrow climate niches would adapt to rising temperatures by moving northwards or upslope to higher elevations. For example, they thought the American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) in the northeastern U.S. would move up into the mountains in search of cold. But in a study published last year, scientists found that despite warmer winters, the squirrels haven’t sought out higher elevations. Rather, they’ve relocated downslope, seemingly drawn by the return of red spruce forest following a period of dieback. The tiny forest critters, it seems, are prioritizing habitat over temperature. The red squirrel isn’t alone. Thousands of plants and animals that scientists thought would be on the move in response to rising global temperatures don’t yet seem to have hit the road. In a 2023 study in the journal Environmental Evidence, scientists reviewed the observed range movements of more than 12,000 species, both terrestrial and marine, to see whether they aligned with what ecologists had expected would&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/wildlifes-unpredictable-movements-make-climate-change-planning-difficult/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Study offers first map of Amazon’s climate-resilient upslope corridors</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/study-offers-first-map-of-amazons-climate-resilient-upslope-corridors/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Jun 2026 14:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Andes, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Cloud Forests, Conservation, Earth Science, Ecosystems, Environment, Impact Of Climate Change, Mapping, Planetary Boundaries, Planetary Health, Rainforest Destruction, Research, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon-based scientists have long known that rapidly rising temperatures mean that places where species live today won’t be where they live tomorrow. For a vast number of species — ranging from insects, birds and primates to all manner of plants — upslope migration could present a potential, though perilous, pathway to resilience and survival during [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon-based scientists have long known that rapidly rising temperatures mean that places where species live today won’t be where they live tomorrow. For a vast number of species — ranging from insects, birds and primates to all manner of plants — upslope migration could present a potential, though perilous, pathway to resilience and survival during the climate crisis. This knowledge has raised a vital question: What are the most likely and best protected routes by which species across the Amazon’s broad expanse can relocate upward, helping preserve biodiversity, and hopefully keeping intact the ecosystem services tropical forests now deliver? In what is deemed the first region-wide assessment of Amazonia’s climate resilience and connectivity, a new study points to the western part of the biome, particularly the Andean spine of Peru, as the most viable upslope corridors. According to researchers, this region has the highest concentration of key components needed to support species survival — including major elevation gradients, large established protected areas, and connected forested corridors to facilitate upslope species migration. The scientists pinpointed additional potential corridors in southwestern Colombia, northern Brazil, northern Bolivia, north-central Guyana, and western Suriname. But these areas are disadvantaged due to fewer protected areas, with connectivity in many locales broken by forest fragmentation due to deforestation and oil and gas drilling. Published in May in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation, the new study, titled “A regional-scale assessment of climate-resilient corridors and connectivity in the Amazon,” was undertaken with the goal of providing findings that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/study-offers-first-map-of-amazons-climate-resilient-upslope-corridors/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-321550</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Rising waters and mounting pressures collide on Kenya’s Lake Turkana</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/rising-waters-and-mounting-pressures-collide-on-kenyas-lake-turkana/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 May 2026 08:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Christopher Clark]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Climate Change, Conservation, Drought, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Flooding, Food, food security, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Global Environmental Crisis, Hunger, Lakes, Overfishing, Poverty, and Regulations]]>
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							<![CDATA[KALOKOL, Kenya — Rake-thin with teeth stained a deep brown from decades of drinking untreated lake water high in fluoride, 62-year-old John Esirite sits in the shade outside the small office of Kalokol’s Beach Management Unit, or BMU, the community-run body that oversees local fisheries. “The old office used to be down there,” the fisherman [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KALOKOL, Kenya — Rake-thin with teeth stained a deep brown from decades of drinking untreated lake water high in fluoride, 62-year-old John Esirite sits in the shade outside the small office of Kalokol’s Beach Management Unit, or BMU, the community-run body that oversees local fisheries. “The old office used to be down there,” the fisherman says, pointing toward the western shoreline of Lake Turkana, the world’s largest permanent desert lake, just visible a couple of kilometers away. “But now it’s underwater.” Over the last 15 years, Lake Turkana has risen by about 8-10 meters (26-33 feet). That’s increased its surface area by around 10%. In and around the fishing hub of Kalokol, hundreds of people have been displaced by this steady advance. In Esirite’s case, the village where he grew up, Natole, has long since been abandoned. The fisherman has had to relocate three times since 2014, pushed ever farther from his ancestral land and the nearshore breeding grounds he has fished for most of his life. “We are suffering, but no one is helping us,” he says. “We can only pray to God for assistance.” But even the church where Esirite used to pray is underwater. What is happening in Kalokol is part of a wider trend. Since the early 2010s, many lakes across Kenya’s Rift Valley have flooded, their expansion accelerating after particularly heavy rains in 2020, forcing tens of thousands from their homes. But here, in this long-neglected northern corner of the country, the human and environmental&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/rising-waters-and-mounting-pressures-collide-on-kenyas-lake-turkana/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-319666</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘Turkana has always adapted to change’: Interview with environmentalist Ikal Angelei</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/turkana-has-always-adapted-to-change-interview-with-environmentalist-ikal-angelei/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 May 2026 08:02:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Christopher Clark]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Climate Change, Conservation, Drought, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Flooding, Food, food security, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Global Environmental Crisis, Hunger, Lakes, Overfishing, Poverty, and Regulations]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often portrayed as a region in perpetual crisis due to climate change. But for the Indigenous groups who have lived here for centuries, environmental change is not new. Local livelihoods have long shifted between pastoralism, fishing, farming and trade as people adapt to a landscape defined by fluctuation. What [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often portrayed as a region in perpetual crisis due to climate change. But for the Indigenous groups who have lived here for centuries, environmental change is not new. Local livelihoods have long shifted between pastoralism, fishing, farming and trade as people adapt to a landscape defined by fluctuation. What has changed is the scale and intensity of pressures now converging on and around the lake — from increasingly erratic climate patterns and mounting strain on fisheries, to oil development, resource conflict, and the political decisions now shaping the lake’s future. In 2008, Ikal Angelei was working as a program coordinator at the Turkana Basin Institute, a pioneering research center focused on human origins and the environment, when she first heard from visiting scientists about a huge hydroelectric dam being built across the border in Ethiopia. Concerned about the Gibe III Dam’s potentially devastating impact downstream, on Lake Turkana and the communities that depend on it, Angelei founded a grassroots organization called Friends of Lake Turkana to amplify the voices of people who had been excluded from the consultation process and fight the project. In 2012, Angelei was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her advocacy. Her organization continues to work with and on behalf of communities within the greater Turkana Basin to demand collective social, economic, cultural, environmental and territorial justice. Mongabay spoke with Angelei about resilience, reductive narratives, and what Turkana’s history might reveal about its future. This interview has been lightly edited&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/turkana-has-always-adapted-to-change-interview-with-environmentalist-ikal-angelei/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In northern Kenya, a shifting Lake Turkana reshapes traditional livelihoods</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/in-northern-kenya-a-shifting-lake-turkana-reshapes-traditional-livelihoods/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/in-northern-kenya-a-shifting-lake-turkana-reshapes-traditional-livelihoods/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>14 Apr 2026 11:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Christopher Clark]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Climate Change, Conservation, Drought, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Flooding, Food, food security, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Global Environmental Crisis, Hunger, Lakes, Overfishing, Poverty, and Regulations]]>
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							<![CDATA[KOMOTE, Kenya — At sunrise on Komote Island, 36-year-old James Lekubo walks his two children down a rocky hillside to the water’s edge, where they clamber into a small fishing boat with a couple of dozen others to journey across a stretch of lake that didn’t exist a few years ago. On the other side [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KOMOTE, Kenya — At sunrise on Komote Island, 36-year-old James Lekubo walks his two children down a rocky hillside to the water’s edge, where they clamber into a small fishing boat with a couple of dozen others to journey across a stretch of lake that didn’t exist a few years ago. On the other side lie their school and the nearest clinic — services that were previously within walking distance. Lekubo is a member of the El Molo, Kenya’s smallest and most marginalized ethnic group, who have lived here along the stark eastern shores of Lake Turkana for centuries. But in more recent years, the world’s largest desert lake has begun to turn against them, threatening not only their traditional livelihood but the very fabric of their cultural identity. According to a 2021 report by Kenya’s environment ministry, over the preceding decade, Turkana’s water levels rose by several meters, expanding the lake’s total surface area by around 10%, largely due to heavier rainfall in the Ethiopian highlands that feed it via the Omo River. Since then, the lake has continued to grow, submerging up to 1,000 square kilometers (about 390 square miles) of the surrounding landscape — an area half the size of London — including roads, grazing land, ancient burial sites, and even entire villages. Primary school children getting off the boat that now ferries them to school. Image by Christopher Clark for Mongabay. Lekubo watched helplessly as Komote was gradually cut off from the mainland. “Most people left&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/in-northern-kenya-a-shifting-lake-turkana-reshapes-traditional-livelihoods/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How are California&#8217;s birds faring amid ever more frequent wildfires?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/how-are-californias-birds-faring-amid-ever-more-frequent-wildfires/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/how-are-californias-birds-faring-amid-ever-more-frequent-wildfires/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>31 Dec 2025 14:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gloria Dickie]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[California, North America, Sierra Nevada, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Air Pollution, Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, data, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Fires, Forests, Monitoring, Owls, Research, Trees, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears almost born of fire, thriving on the flames that flicker through California’s coniferous forests every few years. Swooping in shortly after a blaze subsides, this woodpecker species, Picoides arcticus, nests in the hollowed-out trees the burn has left behind, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears almost born of fire, thriving on the flames that flicker through California’s coniferous forests every few years. Swooping in shortly after a blaze subsides, this woodpecker species, Picoides arcticus, nests in the hollowed-out trees the burn has left behind, gorging on an abundance of longhorn and bark beetles. Throughout the forest, a steady whack-whack can be heard from the birds&#8217; bills drilling into charred wood. The relationship between wildlife and wildfire is a complicated one. Many bird species, like the black-backed woodpecker, need the occasional inferno to create new habitat by opening up the forest canopy and increasing available food by kicking off a boom in insect populations. “While it’s ephemeral, it’s a native habitat of California that many species rely on and have evolved with over millions of years,” says ornithologist Morgan Tingley, whose research at the University of California, Los Angeles, focuses on the interplay of fire and bird populations. The black-backed woodpecker thrives on fires that burn through California’s coniferous forests every few years, opening the forest and creating an abundance  of insects they feed on. Image by Morgan Tingley/UCLA. But historically, this dynamic rested on moderate or mixed-severity fire — not the raging “megafires” that now scorch through the American West and leave little behind. In California, fires have burned more than 5.3 million hectares (13 million acres) over the past decade. In 2020 alone, blazes ripped through more than&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/how-are-californias-birds-faring-amid-ever-more-frequent-wildfires/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Africa mulls gap in climate adaptation finance for agriculture</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/africa-mulls-gap-in-climate-adaptation-finance-for-agriculture/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/africa-mulls-gap-in-climate-adaptation-finance-for-agriculture/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 Dec 2025 18:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimable Twahirwa]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Climate Justice, Environment, Farming, Finance, Funding, Governance, and Social Justice]]>
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							<![CDATA[The agriculture sector’s adaptation to climate change in Africa remains severely underfunded, say stakeholders after the U.N. climate talks came to a conclusion in November 2025. Despite an increase in financial pledges for adaptation at the climate conference, on the ground, there’s a gap of approximately $365 billion through 2035, and skepticism that international institutions [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The agriculture sector’s adaptation to climate change in Africa remains severely underfunded, say stakeholders after the U.N. climate talks came to a conclusion in November 2025. Despite an increase in financial pledges for adaptation at the climate conference, on the ground, there’s a gap of approximately $365 billion through 2035, and skepticism that international institutions will help fill the shortfall. “We need to keep reminding the world that this is a matter of urgency. The longer we wait to address issues, the more exponentially the costs rise,” Jiwoh Abdulai, the environment minister of Sierra Leone, told Mongabay. “We say this because we understand governments around the world are tightening their budgets, they&#8217;re reducing overseas development assistance.” According to latest estimates by the Global Center on Adaptation, at current funding levels, Africa will have $195 billion for overall adaptation by 2035, falling short of the more than $1.6 trillion researchers say may be needed. Agriculture remains the major recipient of current climate adaptation finance, receiving around 26% (or $3.4 billion) per year. “The current gap in climate adaptation finance for African agriculture is not just a funding shortfall — it is a continuation of an unequal global economic order where those who did the least to cause the crisis carry its heaviest burdens,” said Samuel Ogallah, head of the climate change unit at the African Union. African governments provide almost as much adaptation finance in the form of grants as multilateral and bilateral financiers. In Tishimale Village, Ethiopia, Belachew and 147&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/africa-mulls-gap-in-climate-adaptation-finance-for-agriculture/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-312085</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Experts say wealthy nations owe Africa double its climate adaptation needs</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/experts-say-wealthy-nations-owe-africa-double-its-climate-adaptation-needs/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/experts-say-wealthy-nations-owe-africa-double-its-climate-adaptation-needs/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Nov 2025 15:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Victoria Schneider]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, climate finance, Finance, and Funding]]>
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							<![CDATA[As negotiations at this year’s United Nations climate summit, or COP30, near the finish line in Belém, Brazil, the gap in financing for climate adaptation continues to be a sticking point. New pledges amounting to $135 million for the Adaptation Fund, a U.N.-backed financial mechanism to help vulnerable countries cope with the impacts of climate [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As negotiations at this year’s United Nations climate summit, or COP30, near the finish line in Belém, Brazil, the gap in financing for climate adaptation continues to be a sticking point. New pledges amounting to $135 million for the Adaptation Fund, a U.N.-backed financial mechanism to help vulnerable countries cope with the impacts of climate change, were announced during the talks. However, a U.N. report released in October shows that the “adaptation gap,” the difference between what it costs to adapt to climate change and the actual amount of money available, runs in the billions of dollars. This is also the case for countries in Africa, which have contributed little to the problem of climate change. Some experts argue that given the role that Africa and, in particular, its forests play in stowing away planet-warming carbon, it is owed double the amount that it needs in additional adaptation funds. “Africa has already made a substantial preliminary contribution to global climate action,” Richard Munang, deputy regional director for Africa at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), told Mongabay. The estimated funding gap for Africa is $51 billion, according to the latest UNEP report. Home to nearly a fifth of the world’s population, Africa emits only 4% of annual global emissions. Its forests, with the Congo Basin at the core, remove 1.1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. If converted to carbon credits and traded at the fair price determined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/experts-say-wealthy-nations-owe-africa-double-its-climate-adaptation-needs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>African summit seeks clean energy future to combat climate change impacts</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/african-summit-seeks-clean-energy-future-to-combat-climate-change-impacts/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/african-summit-seeks-clean-energy-future-to-combat-climate-change-impacts/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>10 Nov 2025 12:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Christophe AssogbaModeste Dossou]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Christophe Assogba]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Negotiating Africa's Energy Future]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Business, Clean Energy, Climate Change, climate finance, Climate Justice, Energy, Environment, Finance, Governance, Politics, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[COTONOU — Days before the COP30 climate summit kicked off this week in Belém, Brazil, a gathering of “nonstate actors” at the 6th Climate Chance Africa 2025 Summit in Benin adopted a declaration emphasizing the essential role of renewable energy in sustainable development and climate adaptation. Participants at the summit, held in Cotonou on Oct. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[COTONOU — Days before the COP30 climate summit kicked off this week in Belém, Brazil, a gathering of “nonstate actors” at the 6th Climate Chance Africa 2025 Summit in Benin adopted a declaration emphasizing the essential role of renewable energy in sustainable development and climate adaptation. Participants at the summit, held in Cotonou on Oct. 27 and 28, called on the international community to leverage renewable energy as a tool for building climate resilience, preserving biodiversity, and achieving equitable development. The Cotonou Declaration, which follows from the Addis Ababa Declaration by heads of state in September, states that renewables are a key tool for climate adaptation, capable of securing energy access for vulnerable communities, strengthening food security, and improving public health. The declaration denounces the decline in official development assistance and calls on wealthy countries to maintain public investment in the Global South, particularly for climate projects. It proposes reinvesting a portion of carbon market revenues in climate-positive projects in Africa that respect the rights of local communities. The statement says public funds should be used as guarantees to attract private financing, particularly from within Africa, and to reduce borrowing costs that hinder renewable energy projects. Initiatives such as the Africa Climate Innovation Compact and the Accelerated Partnership for Renewables in Africa (APRA) are welcomed, but their success depends on greater inclusion of nonstate actors and accessible financial mechanisms for community-based microprojects. Participants at the Climate Chance Africa 2025 Summit in Cotonou, Benin, are calling on the international community to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/african-summit-seeks-clean-energy-future-to-combat-climate-change-impacts/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Leaders pitch homegrown solutions at Africa Climate Summit — and $100b to back them</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/leaders-pitch-homegrown-solutions-at-africa-climate-summit-and-100b-to-back-them/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Sep 2025 16:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[David Akana]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa and Ethiopia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Banking, Business, Clean Energy, Climate Change, climate finance, Climate Justice, Energy, Environment, Finance, Governance, Hydroelectric Power, Politics, Pollution, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[ADDIS ABABA — African leaders attending the Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa this week have called for a new global partnership that treats the continent as an engine of climate solutions rather than a recipient of aid. Summit host and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed set the tone at the opening on Sept. 8, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[ADDIS ABABA — African leaders attending the Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa this week have called for a new global partnership that treats the continent as an engine of climate solutions rather than a recipient of aid. Summit host and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed set the tone at the opening on Sept. 8, declaring, “We are not here to negotiate our survival. We are here to design the world’s next climate economy.” The summit’s three-day program will focus on nature-based solutions, technology, and energy systems on day one; adaptation and resilience in the face of advancing climate change on day two; and conclude with a decisive focus on “financing African-led solutions” on day three. Summit organizers say the goal is to bridge the persistent gap between political pledges and bankable projects. To illustrate how this solutions-first framing can extend beyond speeches, the Ethiopian hosts are showcasing several domestic initiatives: a Green Legacy campaign the government says has planted more than 48 billion seedlings since 2019; a climate-resilient wheat program and nutrition drive, known as Yelemat Tirufat, intended to cut imports and raise rural incomes; and the imminent commissioning of the 5,000-megawatt Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam as a regional clean-power anchor. Abiy paired that domestic portfolio with a continental proposal: an African Climate Innovation Compact (ACIC) that would link universities, research centers, startups and communities, aiming to surface 1,000 African solutions by 2030, underpinned — at least aspirationally — by $50 billion a year in blended finance. Solar plant&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/leaders-pitch-homegrown-solutions-at-africa-climate-summit-and-100b-to-back-them/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Shrinking Mekong megafish underlines risks to the river, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/shrinking-mekong-megafish-underlines-risks-to-the-river-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Aug 2025 14:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Anton L. Delgado]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Philip Jacobson]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Mekong Basin, Southeast Asia, and Vietnam]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Dams, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Megafauna, Overfishing, Research, Rivers, Tropics, Water Pollution, Wetlands, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The megafish of the Mekong River are shrinking, a new study has found. In the most comprehensive analysis of species size in Southeast Asia’s Lower Mekong Basin, researchers have tracked a generational shrinkage among the river’s iconic gargantuan fish, which are among the largest freshwater fish in the world. The size decline in the Mekong [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The megafish of the Mekong River are shrinking, a new study has found. In the most comprehensive analysis of species size in Southeast Asia’s Lower Mekong Basin, researchers have tracked a generational shrinkage among the river’s iconic gargantuan fish, which are among the largest freshwater fish in the world. The size decline in the Mekong is a troubling trend for the ecosystem on which more than 65 million people across six countries depend. It also mirrors shrinkages of other megafauna in river basins around the world. “At its core, the analysis shows that the Mekong River’s biggest, slowest-to-mature fish species, and especially those at highest risk of extinction, are the ones shrinking fastest,” Zeb Hogan, a co-author of the study and biologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, said in an interview with Mongabay. “Declining fish size isn’t just a symptom of overfishing — it’s a warning sign of deeper population instability.” A Mekong giant catfish release in 2007. Image courtesy of Zeb Hogan with Wonders of the Mekong. The study results are based on more than seven years of catch-monitoring data that tracked 257 species across 23 sites in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. More than 397,000 samples were collected from mid-2007 to mid-2014. These samples were compared to historical data from conservation information hub FishBase and the Mekong River Commission’s fisheries monitoring database. Changes in fish body size are a key indicator of fish stock health that informs fisheries management and conservation planning. Small and medium-sized fish species didn’t&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/shrinking-mekong-megafish-underlines-risks-to-the-river-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Climate change tests the resilience of people and desert-adapted wildlife in Namibia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/climate-change-tests-the-resilience-of-people-and-desert-adapted-wildlife-in-namibia/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Aug 2025 15:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Petro Kotzé]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Namibia, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Justice, Conservation, Desertification, Deserts, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, Impact Of Climate Change, Planetary Boundaries, Planetary Health, Public Health, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[SESFONTEIN, Namibia ­­­— “I want my children to see a rhino with their own eyes — not only in Etosha [National Park],” says Sofia /Nuas, a member of the Sesfontein Conservancy Committee, located in Namibia’s arid northwest. She’s sitting in the shade of a large sausage tree, yet even on this winter morning temperatures have quickly [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SESFONTEIN, Namibia ­­­— “I want my children to see a rhino with their own eyes — not only in Etosha [National Park],” says Sofia /Nuas, a member of the Sesfontein Conservancy Committee, located in Namibia’s arid northwest. She’s sitting in the shade of a large sausage tree, yet even on this winter morning temperatures have quickly soared to more than 30° Celsius (86° Fahrenheit). Life in this hot and dry region is already tough, but climate change will intensify it. With a population of less than 3,000, Sesfontein is a small settlement located in the Northwestern Escarpment and Inselbergs of the Nama Karoo Biome. Cattle and goats meander across dusty roads, but tourists are also drawn to the desert-like outpost for its enigmatic landscapes and a chance to glimpse some of the world’s last free-roaming, critically endangered black rhinos (Diceros bicornis), as well as Namibia’s famed desert-adapted lions (Panthera leo) and African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana). Their presence here is no accident. Once near-depleted, the wildlife is protected not only by fences and the government, but by the communities who share the land with free-roaming predators and herds of springboks (Antidorcas marsupialis), giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) and gemsboks (Oryx gazella). The Sesfontein Conservancy is one of more than 80 communal conservancies in Namibia. For decades, these conservancies have helped bring wildlife back from the brink, in a model of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) that has resulted in swaths of land conserving Namibia’s wildlife beyond government-run national parks. The model’s continued success&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/climate-change-tests-the-resilience-of-people-and-desert-adapted-wildlife-in-namibia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A forest garden project attempts to expand into the Sahel</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/a-forest-garden-project-attempts-to-expand-into-the-sahel/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jul 2025 06:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Victoria Schneider]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Kenya, Mali, Sahel, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and West Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Agroforestry, Climate Change, Conservation, Crops, Degraded Lands, Drought, Dry Forests, Erosion, Extreme Weather, Farming, Food, Hunger, Land Use Change, Monocultures, Natural Resources, Plants, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Reforestation, Trees, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[Drought, irregular rainfall, deforestation, and the legacy of unsustainable human activities have left vast areas across the arid and semiarid regions of sub-Saharan Africa degraded, causing major challenges for the human population. According to environmentalists, one solution to this problem might be forest gardens. These “gardens” use regenerative agroforestry to revive patches of degraded agricultural [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Drought, irregular rainfall, deforestation, and the legacy of unsustainable human activities have left vast areas across the arid and semiarid regions of sub-Saharan Africa degraded, causing major challenges for the human population. According to environmentalists, one solution to this problem might be forest gardens. These “gardens” use regenerative agroforestry to revive patches of degraded agricultural land. In 2024, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) selected a project led by Trees for the Future (TREES), a U.S.-based NGO, as one of seven world restoration flagships for its “forest garden approach” used in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa. These flagships promote restoration projects around the world that show potential to tackle challenges at scale and provide financial support. “Forest gardens promote healthy soil and diverse crops, leading to increased income and access to healthier food,” Enoch Makobi, country director for TREES in Uganda, told Mongabay. “Farmers are fighting climate change and can overcome poverty and hunger.” While NGO leaders say they’re optimistic about the outcomes of the project so far and their plans for expansion, some other conservationists have expressed skepticism, pointing to a lack of scientific evidence on impacts and the difficulty international NGOs face in tackling local problems and needs. A forest garden is a modern term for an ancient agroforestry model that mixes shrubs, herbs, vines, fruit and nut trees, and perennial vegetables, with the aim of supplying communities with food, medicine and animal feed. According to scientists, forest gardens can have significant&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/a-forest-garden-project-attempts-to-expand-into-the-sahel/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Assisted colonization could be our ally in adapting to climate change, study suggests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/assisted-colonization-could-be-our-ally-in-adapting-to-climate-change-study-suggests/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Jul 2025 13:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Spoorthy Raman]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Britain, Europe, and United Kingdom]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Animals, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Colonization, Conservation, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Forests, Impact Of Climate Change, Politics, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[From Shakespeare’s plays to William Wordsworth’s poetry to J.R.R Tolkien&#8217;s fantasy realms, Britain’s lush green forests are described as a paradise of trees. Thousands of species have called these oak, hazel, beech and pine woodlands home for millennia. But as human-caused emissions warm up the planet, many of Britain’s iconic species are at risk: a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[From Shakespeare’s plays to William Wordsworth’s poetry to J.R.R Tolkien&#8217;s fantasy realms, Britain’s lush green forests are described as a paradise of trees. Thousands of species have called these oak, hazel, beech and pine woodlands home for millennia. But as human-caused emissions warm up the planet, many of Britain’s iconic species are at risk: a 2023 State of Nature report finds that one in six of the 10,000 species assessed are at risk of being lost from the U.K. due to the climate crisis. As climate change forces species to shift their ranges and find new refuges, others may take their place so that key ecosystem services, such as pollination, soil nutrient cycling and carbon storage, can keep going. However, in islands like Great Britain, where most species can’t naturally disperse due to the sea barrier, the loss of vital species may mean ecosystems can no longer function. This begs the question: Could some humans help disperse species? That’s a thought conservation ecologist James Bullock, at the UK Centre for Ecology &amp; Hydrology, and his colleague Charlie Gardner pondered over. In a recent perspective published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, the duo suggest that assisted colonization — or introducing species that can better adapt to a future climate — could benefit some geographies to adapt to rapid climate change. They use the hypothetical future forest ecosystems of Great Britain to argue that proactive approaches, such as mass-scale assisted colonization, could be better for conservation in a warming climate than reactive&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/assisted-colonization-could-be-our-ally-in-adapting-to-climate-change-study-suggests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-301786</doi>				</item>
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					<title>To survive climate change, scientists say protected areas need ‘climate-smart’ planning</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/to-survive-climate-change-scientists-say-protected-areas-need-climate-smart-planning/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Jun 2025 16:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Marina Martinez]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Atlantic Forest, Australia, Belize, Brazil, Cameroon, Congo Basin, Global, Guiana Shield, Indonesia, Latin America, Mexico, Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Peru, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate Change, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Politics, Protected Areas, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Protected areas such as national parks, nature reserves and Indigenous lands are the foundation of biodiversity conservation. However, climate change is threatening their effectiveness in safeguarding wildlife, ecosystem services and livelihoods. As many countries work to meet the global target of protecting 30% of the planet’s lands and waters by 2030 — known as the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Protected areas such as national parks, nature reserves and Indigenous lands are the foundation of biodiversity conservation. However, climate change is threatening their effectiveness in safeguarding wildlife, ecosystem services and livelihoods. As many countries work to meet the global target of protecting 30% of the planet’s lands and waters by 2030 — known as the 30&#215;30 goal, a cornerstone of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework — scientists are calling for the incorporation of “climate-smart” approaches into the planning of new and existing protected areas. The 30&#215;30 Progress Tracker tool shows how the global movement to protect 30% of the world’s lands and waters by 2030 is progressing — with around 17% of global land and inland waters, and 8% of oceans currently protected. Image ©&#xfe0f; SkyTruth. “While we know that climate change is affecting biodiversity, for example through distribution range shifts, local extinctions, and community restructuring, designs of PAs [protected areas] don’t usually explicitly account for these effects,” says Kristine Buenafe, a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science at the University of Queensland, Australia, and lead author of a recent review published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity. Buenafe’s paper indicates that conservationists risk protecting areas where species may no longer live in the future, if they don’t factor in climate change dynamics. “We’ve reached a critical time to consider where to best place our new PAs and make sure that they are ‘climate-smart’ (resilient to climate change),” Buenafe said in an email interview. This reasoning is echoed&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/to-survive-climate-change-scientists-say-protected-areas-need-climate-smart-planning/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-300731</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/diverse-forests-and-forest-rewilding-offer-resilience-against-climate-change/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Apr 2025 18:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Forest Restoration Solutions]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Central America, China, Global, Panama, and Tropics]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Forest Regeneration, Forestry, Forests, Impact Of Climate Change, Rainforests, Research, Rewilding, Temperatures, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[When it comes to reforestation, planting a diversity of tree species could have a plethora of positive effects on forest health and resilience, climate mitigation and biodiversity. That’s based on research from the world’s largest tree-planting experiment, in China, and one of the world’s longest-running tropical forest planting experiments, in Panama. Florian Schnabel, lecturer and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When it comes to reforestation, planting a diversity of tree species could have a plethora of positive effects on forest health and resilience, climate mitigation and biodiversity. That’s based on research from the world’s largest tree-planting experiment, in China, and one of the world’s longest-running tropical forest planting experiments, in Panama. Florian Schnabel, lecturer and chair of silviculture at Freiburg University in Germany, and his team recently published two papers illustrating how planting diverse forests can buffer them against climate extremes and enhance carbon storage. “The results of our research in Panama and in China really call for preserving and also planting diverse forests as a strategy under climate change,” he says. Researchers with the BEF-China project planted multiple forests, ranging from just one tree species up to 24, then measured microclimate temperatures over six years. They found that the more diverse the forest, the greater the “temperature buffering” effect during hot and cold peaks. The most diverse plantings, those with 24 species, reduced temperatures during peak midday summer heat by 4.4° Celsius (7.92° Fahrenheit) when compared to the project’s monoculture. That finding could have important consequences for biodiversity and forest functions, such as soil respiration, says Schnabel. “What was quite striking to me was how strong this [temperature buffering] effect actually was.” While the paper’s findings are not groundbreaking, says Karen Holl, a professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the study effectively demonstrates the benefits of diverse tree species. “People are making arguments for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/diverse-forests-and-forest-rewilding-offer-resilience-against-climate-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How is conservation preparing for a much hotter world? Experts share</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/how-is-conservation-preparing-for-a-much-hotter-world-experts-share/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Apr 2025 15:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global and Tropics]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Law, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Forestry, Forests, Impact Of Climate Change, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Research, Temperatures, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to less than 2,000 people. But it’s not the people that draw Nik Sekhran’s eye. “I enjoy watching the African oystercatchers,” says Sekhran, chief conservation officer at World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Big black birds with [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[About 90 kilometers (56 miles) southeast of Cape Town lies the tranquilly-named town of Betty’s Bay in South Africa, home to less than 2,000 people. But it’s not the people that draw Nik Sekhran’s eye. “I enjoy watching the African oystercatchers,” says Sekhran, chief conservation officer at World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Big black birds with stunning red beaks, African oystercatchers (Haematopus moquini) are only found in South Africa and Namibia — and they only nest on beaches near cold sea water, Sekhran says. Rising sea levels are pushing these birds to nest further inland, where, he says, they are running into people and dogs. “I think a lot about these birds, who have so far managed to adapt and find protected enclaves to lay their eggs. But as tides continue to erode the dunes toward our house, the birds will be hard-pressed,” Sekhran says. In 50 years, will the African oystercatchers still nest at Betty’s Bay? Will they have anywhere to nest? The plight of these little-known birds may soon become the plight of species everywhere. “In 50 years, it’s entirely possible that climate change will have become the largest threat to many species in the world — and thus to ecosystems in general,” says James Deutsch, the CEO of Rainforest Trust. Today, the biggest threat remains habitat loss, but climate change is climbing among the perils for nature. What will the world look like in 2075 when temperatures could be 3-5° Celsius (4.5 to 9° Fahrenheit) higher than the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/how-is-conservation-preparing-for-a-much-hotter-world-experts-share/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Young people in Africa call for a fair increase in funding for climate adaptation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/young-people-in-africa-call-for-a-fair-increase-in-funding-for-climate-adaptation/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Dec 2024 15:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Leocadia Bongben]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cameroon, and Central Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Finance, Funding, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[Yaounde &#8211; African youths have adopted &#8220;The Yaounde African call on more than doubling Adaptation Finance for a Resilient Africa,&#8221; calling for a large raise in the share of adaptation finance in the overall climate finance portfolio to match the needs and costs of adaptation for African nations. They argue that doubling adaptation finance to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Yaounde &#8211; African youths have adopted &#8220;The Yaounde African call on more than doubling Adaptation Finance for a Resilient Africa,&#8221; calling for a large raise in the share of adaptation finance in the overall climate finance portfolio to match the needs and costs of adaptation for African nations. They argue that doubling adaptation finance to approximately $40 billion per year would still remain inadequate relative to the identified needs. The call, at the end of the three-day second Youth Forum on Adaptation Finance in Africa, YOFAFA, held in the city of seven hills—Yaounde in Cameroon—comes as climate impacts rise in Africa, as the continent faces widening financial gaps for adaptation. “We call on developed countries to increase and prioritize climate financing for energy access projects in Africa, recognizing that energy access is essential to climate resilience,” the youths also declared. Idris Adoum from Chad, advocacy and awareness expert for the Youth for Adaptation Finance and Youth for Climate in Africa network, says, “We made the call last year; it had an appreciable impact, but it was not adopted. We have reiterated the call and added access to the energy campaign.” Given that many youths were unable to attend COP 29 in Azerbaijan, Adoum says, “The strategy is for delegates at the Yaounde forum to approach focal points of adaptation, climate, and the country negotiators to hand them the declaration. In Chad, I will hand it to the Secretary-General of the Governor, the country’s negotiator who will participate in the delegation&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/young-people-in-africa-call-for-a-fair-increase-in-funding-for-climate-adaptation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In a Noah’s Ark move, PNG migrants bring thousands of trees to safer ground</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/in-a-noahs-ark-move-png-climate-migrants-bring-thousands-of-trees-to-safer-ground/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Nov 2024 17:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Thibault Le Pivain]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Pacific Ocean, Papua, Papua New Guinea, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Erosion, Human Migration, Medicinal Plants, Migration, Plants, Sea Levels, Traditional Medicine, Trees, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[BOUGAINVILLE, Papua New Guinea — The climate is changing, science shows. And according to some estimates, it could create anywhere between 200 million and 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050. As people flee floods, failed harvests, dried rivers or destroyed homes, what becomes of the ecosystems they leave behind? Of the wildlife, trees and endemic [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BOUGAINVILLE, Papua New Guinea — The climate is changing, science shows. And according to some estimates, it could create anywhere between 200 million and 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050. As people flee floods, failed harvests, dried rivers or destroyed homes, what becomes of the ecosystems they leave behind? Of the wildlife, trees and endemic species? In the southwestern Pacific, people are bringing much of this biodiversity along with them. The residents of the Carteret Islands in Papua New Guinea are responding to climate threats by moving not only themselves to safer ground — but also the plants and trees that sustain their way of life. In their move, they have transplanted hundreds of specimens, representing dozens of species, across a small stretch of ocean. “We’re not just leaving. We’re trying to bring a part of our islands with us,” says Maria Kamin, who left the Carteret Islands to relocate with other families in response to rising sea levels. They’ve moved to Bougainville, another island part of the country. In their new home, this vegetation, combined with local flora, have helped establish a thriving forest of 175,000 trees and plants. During this “green migration,” residents tell Mongabay they hope to preserve not only the biodiversity of their native islands as conditions worsen, but also their culture and sense of place. Maria Kamin walks in the forest in Bougainville which villagers planted using tree species brought over from the Carteret Island. Image by Thibault Le Pivain. Carrying home forward Few people&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/in-a-noahs-ark-move-png-climate-migrants-bring-thousands-of-trees-to-safer-ground/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-290430</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Africa needs COP29 funding &#038; international finance reform to manage climate change (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/africa-needs-cop29-funding-to-manage-climate-change-international-finance-reform-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Nov 2024 23:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[David Akana]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Climate Justice, Commentary, Energy, Environment, Finance, Funding, Governance, and Social Justice]]>
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							<![CDATA[It is always puzzling to witness the immense hype surrounding COPs (conferences of the parties to international conventions or treaties). Back in 2009, Barack Obama had just been elected U.S. President. His arrival in Copenhagen, the host city of that year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15), brought so many expectations. Some would argue that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It is always puzzling to witness the immense hype surrounding COPs (conferences of the parties to international conventions or treaties). Back in 2009, Barack Obama had just been elected U.S. President. His arrival in Copenhagen, the host city of that year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15), brought so many expectations. Some would argue that despite his star power, COP15 only managed a last-minute deal to save face. Despite the complexity of the climate COP, every year it is heralded as a crucial juncture in the ongoing battle against climate change. However, it consistently falls short of meeting the expectations of those advocating for swift action in light of the stark warnings presented by scientific research. A recent comprehensive assessment of planetary health, unprecedented in its scope, sounded the alarm that the Earth is surpassing safe thresholds. This begs the question: why are politicians and policymakers not responding with a comparable sense of urgency? Once again, this year, representatives from over 198 countries are gearing up to head to Baku, Azerbaijan, for COP29 to push climate action forward with their usual energy and enthusiasm – perhaps a good thing, as the daunting nature of the process makes it only possible for optimists to stand its slow nature. While it could be credited for enabling incremental change, it falls short in achieving the transformative change demanded by science and activists. Worst still, its ability to deliver what Africa needs regarding financial solutions to address the urgent impacts of climate on its&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/africa-needs-cop29-funding-to-manage-climate-change-international-finance-reform-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-289673</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Follow the prey: How servals adapt to an industrialized landscape</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/follow-the-prey-how-servals-adapt-to-an-industrialized-landscape/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Oct 2024 15:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Juliette Portala]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, South Africa, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Animals, Big Cats, Cats, Conservation, Environment, Habitat, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Industry, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Why did the serval go to the petrochemical complex? For the refinery rodents, of course. These swift and slender wildcats that call the marshes and reedbeds of sub-Saharan Africa home have a penchant for rats and mice, though they’ll also feed on a mix of birds, insects and reptiles. But for their preferred prey, they’ll [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Why did the serval go to the petrochemical complex? For the refinery rodents, of course. These swift and slender wildcats that call the marshes and reedbeds of sub-Saharan Africa home have a penchant for rats and mice, though they’ll also feed on a mix of birds, insects and reptiles. But for their preferred prey, they’ll leave the relative safety of their wetland homes and venture into human-modified landscapes. That’s the finding from a new study in Mammalia, which shows servals will adapt accordingly, persisting almost solely on rats and mice at one of the world’s biggest petrochemical complexes. The number of servals at Sasol’s Secunda petrochemical complex in Mpumalanga, South Africa, has broken density records. Image courtesy of Loock et al. (2018). From specialization to adaptation The serval (Leptailurus serval) may be a specialist carnivore, highly skilled at hunting small animals in wetlands and savannas, but that doesn’t mean it can’t adapt when push comes to shove. “The anatomy, morphology, behavior and physiological adaptations of specialist carnivores allow them to find food efficiently and effectively,” said study lead author Fortune Ravhuanzwo, a conservation expert at South Africa’s University of Venda. Ravhuanzwo’s team revealed that a serval population was able to not only survive, but thrive, in the Sasol Secunda petrochemical industrial complex in South Africa’s northeastern province of Mpumalanga. By collecting 264 scat samples each year from 2013 to 2018, the scientists showed that even in this human-dominated landscape, the long-limbed cat remained a rodent specialist, with a preference for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/follow-the-prey-how-servals-adapt-to-an-industrialized-landscape/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-288133</doi>				</item>
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					<title>U.S. East Coast adopts ‘living shorelines’ approach to keep rising seas at bay</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/u-s-east-coast-adopts-living-shorelines-approach-to-keep-rising-seas-at-bay/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Apr 2024 16:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[North America and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate Change, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystems, Environment, Habitat, Nature-based climate solutions, Oceans, Restoration, Sea Levels, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[BLUE HILL, Maine — January brought a pair of rough storms to the northeastern U.S. They hit when the tides were high and pushed higher than normal by rising sea levels, setting numerous high-water records and prompting Maine Governor Janet Mills to request a federal disaster declaration. These events, just three days apart, built on [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BLUE HILL, Maine — January brought a pair of rough storms to the northeastern U.S. They hit when the tides were high and pushed higher than normal by rising sea levels, setting numerous high-water records and prompting Maine Governor Janet Mills to request a federal disaster declaration. These events, just three days apart, built on damage suffered during another storm during the December 2023 holidays and another during the previous December. “Extensive” is the word that Peter Slovinsky, a marine geologist for the Maine Geological Survey, chose to describe the most recent damage during an interview with Mongabay. He pointed to an estimate that 60% of Maine’s working waterfronts were severely damaged. “We saw numerous seawall failures and erosion of anywhere between 15 to even up to 30 feet [4.5-9 meters] of coastal sand dunes, and massive bluff failures also,” Slovinsky said. The common response to busted docks, condemned houses, shrinking shorelines, disappearing dunes and faltering bluffs has been to bolster the shore with &#8216;hard&#8217; infrastructure like concrete jetties and breakwaters of imported boulders. But those interventions are expensive, carbon-intensive, and ultimately ineffective due to continual sea level rise. A worker stands on logs pinned down with rebar to hold sediment in place that will be planted with salt tolerant plants for a &#8216;living shorelines&#8217; project on the Blue Hill Peninsula in Maine. Image by Erik Hoffner for Mongabay. Increasingly, agencies like Slovinsky’s have been experimenting with a more natural and possibly more effective approach called living shorelines. The U.S.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/u-s-east-coast-adopts-living-shorelines-approach-to-keep-rising-seas-at-bay/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-281292</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cerrado mammals change their habits to escape humans, study shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/cerrado-mammals-change-their-habits-to-escape-humans-study-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Apr 2024 16:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fernanda Wenzel]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Animal Behavior, Animals, Conservation, Environment, Habitat, Habitat Loss, Mammals, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[How do wild animals manage to continue hunting and reproducing in areas occupied by houses, roads, domestic animals and crops? Scientists increasingly point out that the only solution for most species is to drastically change their habits, in a forced adaptation process whose consequences for the surroundings are still uncertain. An article published in early [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[How do wild animals manage to continue hunting and reproducing in areas occupied by houses, roads, domestic animals and crops? Scientists increasingly point out that the only solution for most species is to drastically change their habits, in a forced adaptation process whose consequences for the surroundings are still uncertain. An article published in early February in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation shows that many animals end up becoming more nocturnal as a way of avoiding human presence. The study, which gathered researchers from the University of Manchester in the U.K. and the Ecology and Conservation Laboratory (Laec) at the University of São Paulo in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, is part of a broad project started in 2013-14, when camera traps were installed in different parts of northeast São Paulo. The area, originally covered by the Cerrado biome, has undergone changes caused by different crops for more than 200 years. It started with coffee in the 18th and 19th centuries, followed by livestock farming, and it has recently been taken over by sugar cane plantations as well as planted forests of pine and eucalyptus. “These animals have been in contact with people for a long time,” says Adriano Chiarello from Laec, who is the head of the study. Researchers used camera traps to monitor circulation times and areas of five species of mammals in northeast São Paulo. Image courtesy of the USP Ecology and Conservation Laboratory. Camera traps — small devices that capture images every time someone or something crosses&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/cerrado-mammals-change-their-habits-to-escape-humans-study-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Agroforestry project sows seeds of hope in drought-hit Honduras</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/agroforestry-project-sows-seeds-of-hope-in-drought-hit-honduras/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/agroforestry-project-sows-seeds-of-hope-in-drought-hit-honduras/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 Mar 2024 15:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sonam Lama Hyolmo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation and Indigenous-led conservation]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Central America, Honduras, and North America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Agriculture, Agroecology, Agroforestry, Climate Change, Conservation, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, Indigenous Peoples, Sustainability, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ivis Rene Cabrera no longer gazes up at the sky in hopes of rain to irrigate his field. He’s come to expect the long dry spells as northwestern Honduras grapples with increasingly longer periods of drought during the dry season. Now, he and the rest of the Indigenous Tolupan community’s gaze is to the ground. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ivis Rene Cabrera no longer gazes up at the sky in hopes of rain to irrigate his field. He’s come to expect the long dry spells as northwestern Honduras grapples with increasingly longer periods of drought during the dry season. Now, he and the rest of the Indigenous Tolupan community’s gaze is to the ground. Their hope lies in an agroecology project to revive the harvests on their typically fertile lands. Beans and corn, staple foods of the community, used to be bountiful in Honduras’s Yoro department, before they were hit by severe droughts. “We used to produce 10-12 cargas [1,400-1,700 kilograms, or 3,000-3,700 pounds] each, and now we cannot cultivate the crops anymore in many parts of Yoro. The drought-led crop failure has led many people to migrate to other areas in search of better livelihood opportunities,” Cabrera says. In 2021, to build community agricultural resilience to climate hazards in Yoro, Spain-based NGO Ayuda en Acción and its Honduran partner, FUNACH, introduced an initiative where 1,669 people, almost equal parts women and men, participated in multiple synchronized strategies to help them adapt to hazards like droughts. Agroforestry in particular has helped Cabrera find his way back to the fields. “We have now begun harvesting all year around as we cultivate different foods. The support that we received in building water systems helped us experiment and harvest new crops like leafy greens and avocados. It helps bring food to my table,” Cabrera tells Mongabay. The agroforestry plots are established to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/agroforestry-project-sows-seeds-of-hope-in-drought-hit-honduras/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Long-term wildlife impacts at Chornobyl, Fukushima may yield ‘a new ecology’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/long-term-wildlife-impacts-at-chornobyl-fukushima-may-yield-a-new-ecology/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Dec 2023 15:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Annelise Giseburt]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Europe, Japan, and Ukraine]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Disasters, Diseases, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Health, Mammals, Nuclear Power, Planetary Health, Pollution, Research, Restoration, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world’s two worst nuclear accidents, in Ukraine and Japan, along with the human exclusion zones around them, are informing scientists about radiation effects, and how ecosystems evolve with less pressure from people.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Note to readers: “Chornobyl” is the Ukrainian spelling of “Chernobyl,” which is the Russian version, a spelling change requested by the Ukrainian government following its independence from the USSR. Mongabay has chosen to use the Ukrainian spelling throughout this story. Wolves lope through the Chornobyl nuclear power plant exclusion zone in the 2019 documentary Our Planet, as naturalist and TV presenter David Attenborough reminds viewers: “Hunters like these would only return if their prey and the surrounding forest is also thriving. “No unprotected human being can stay here for long without lethal risk,” he then explained, “But in driving us out, the radiation has created space for wildlife to return.” Attenborough is not the first to claim that nature can thrive in nuclear exclusion zones; indeed, the Our Planet script drew from scientific literature. However, there’s no consensus among the scientific community on this question, with researchers continuing to investigate and debate the ongoing effects of radioactive contamination on the environment in Chornobyl, Ukraine, and in Fukushima, Japan — the sites of the world’s two worst nuclear power plant accidents to date. Although individual-level radiation impacts on numerous animal and plant species have been widely observed and acknowledged, some researchers have found evidence of population-level, or even ecosystem-level impacts, while others haven’t. Study design, including target species, sample size, and method of estimating radiation dose, potentially colors these findings. Others argue that the body of research on nuclear exclusion zone organisms and ecosystems point in sum to neither a restoration,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/long-term-wildlife-impacts-at-chornobyl-fukushima-may-yield-a-new-ecology/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/thailand-tries-nature-based-water-management-to-adapt-to-climate-change/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Dec 2023 11:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Southeast Asia, and Thailand]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Crops, Drought, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Policy, Flooding, Freshwater, Freshwater Fish, Governance, Impact Of Climate Change, Lakes, Nature-based climate solutions, Politics, Rivers, Solutions, Sustainability, Swamps, Tropics, Water, Water Scarcity, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[Water is essential for all forms of life. It also underpins food security, economic prosperity and public health. This is especially so in Thailand, a country transited by some of Southeast Asia’s mightiest watercourses and whose growing national economy depends heavily on irrigated crops like rice. But as climate change continues to bring extreme weather [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Water is essential for all forms of life. It also underpins food security, economic prosperity and public health. This is especially so in Thailand, a country transited by some of Southeast Asia’s mightiest watercourses and whose growing national economy depends heavily on irrigated crops like rice. But as climate change continues to bring extreme weather events that exacerbate floods and droughts, Thailand’s farmers, communities and policymakers are facing the challenge of how to manage water sustainably. One promising avenue is leveraging nature’s own capacity to mitigate the consequences of extreme weather by encouraging natural processes in Thailand’s abundant rivers, floodplains and watershed forests. Such ecosystem-based adaptations or nature-based solutions are increasingly being promoted worldwide as ways to address the climate crisis while enhancing the resilience of biodiversity, ecosystems and communities. With the latest assessment of the Global Climate Risk Index ranking Thailand among the world’s top 10 countries most at risk of climate change, authorities and communities are trialing nature-based approaches in several parts of the country, and they’re increasingly reflected in national policy and planning instruments. “Some challenges, such as achieving the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals or dealing with climate uncertainty, cannot be fully addressed without nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based adaptation playing an important part,” Aksara Putthividiya, associate professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, told Mongabay in an interview. A new report, led by researchers based at five Thai universities, synthesizes data gathered between 2020 and 2022 on two ecosystems-based approaches to water management in Thailand: recreating seminatural floodplains;&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/thailand-tries-nature-based-water-management-to-adapt-to-climate-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Study shows Kenyan elephant shrew may be adapting to human disturbance, drought</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/study-shows-kenyan-elephant-shrew-may-be-adapting-to-human-disturbance-drought/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 May 2023 16:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Drought, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Plantations, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A population of endangered elephant shrews has rebounded in a threatened coastal forest reserve in Kenya, suggesting the rabbit-sized mammals with endearingly long snouts could be adapting to both human disturbance and drought, researchers say. Rael Ondoro, a Kenyan-trained ecologist, told Mongabay she was inspired to carry out a population assessment of the endangered golden-rumped [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A population of endangered elephant shrews has rebounded in a threatened coastal forest reserve in Kenya, suggesting the rabbit-sized mammals with endearingly long snouts could be adapting to both human disturbance and drought, researchers say. Rael Ondoro, a Kenyan-trained ecologist, told Mongabay she was inspired to carry out a population assessment of the endangered golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus), also known as the sengi, after she heard that villagers in communities surrounding Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve ate them. “I thought, ‘Let me check and see what’s happening now. Was the sengi going extinct?’ I think curiosity was a major motivation.” To gather her data, Ondoro and her team spent three months in 2019 doing transects in the 40,000-hectare (99,000-acre) forest reserve to estimate the abundance of the sengis based on the number of nests they found. Sengis belong to an ancient African lineage whose members include hyraxes, aardvarks and elephants. They use their long snouts to rifle through leaf litter for insects and to scrape nests in the sandy soil which they then line and cover up with dry leaves. A golden-rumped elephant shrew. Researchers say a population of these shrews in a threatened coastal forest reserve in Kenya could be adapting to both human disturbance and drought. Image by gomenwl via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0). According to Ondoro’s findings, published recently in the African Journal of Ecology, the population rose to 19,423 in 2019, from 12,750 in 2009. This represents an increase of more than 52%. Previous studies had shown&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/study-shows-kenyan-elephant-shrew-may-be-adapting-to-human-disturbance-drought/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>An Asian grass helps Mexican farmers build resilience to climate change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/an-asian-grass-helps-mexican-farmers-build-resilience-to-climate-change/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 May 2023 18:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sandra Weiss]]>
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						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Latin America, Mexico, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Agroecology, Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Erosion, food security, Impact Of Climate Change, Plantations, and Research]]>
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							<![CDATA[SAN ANDRES TUXTLA, Mexico —­­­­ &#8220;There are not many regions in Mexico that have been used for agriculture for about 4,000 years,&#8221; says environmentalist Antonio Carrillo as he walks along a dusty dirt road. It’s early morning in the Matacapan Valley in the state of Veracruz. The regular tropical rainfall and the fertile volcanic soil [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SAN ANDRES TUXTLA, Mexico —­­­­ &#8220;There are not many regions in Mexico that have been used for agriculture for about 4,000 years,&#8221; says environmentalist Antonio Carrillo as he walks along a dusty dirt road. It’s early morning in the Matacapan Valley in the state of Veracruz. The regular tropical rainfall and the fertile volcanic soil have made this valley surrounded by green hills an agricultural paradise. In the past, Indigenous people grew food crops here; after the Spanish conquest, sugarcane and cotton were introduced. In the 19th century, tobacco became the most important cash crop, and remains so today. But like many other agricultural regions in Mexico, this fertile valley is threatened by climate change. Mexico&#8217;s rugged geography makes it particularly vulnerable to extreme events such as droughts and hurricanes, which are worsened by shifts in the climate. These further undermine the soil in the Matacapan Valley, which already suffers from erosion, as with most of the land in Mexico. Carrillo stops abruptly and kneels down next to a dirt wall bordering the path. He points at a dense network of light-brown roots, similar to a ball of wool, crowned by long, narrow, light-green grassy leaves, with a rough surface and a longitudinal notch: Chrysopogon zizanioides, commonly known as vetiver. &#8220;We planted vetiver here just a year ago,&#8221; he says. &#8220;And the roots are already 2 meters [6 feet] deep!&#8221; Carrillo testing the vetiver roots in a barrier next to a road used by trucks and heavily affected by erosion.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/an-asian-grass-helps-mexican-farmers-build-resilience-to-climate-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Sri Lanka aims to restore ancient irrigation tanks in climate change plan</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/sri-lanka-aims-to-restore-ancient-irrigation-tanks-in-climate-change-plan/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Apr 2023 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Malaka Rodrigo]]>
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						<![CDATA[Dilrukshi Handunnetti]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, South Asia, and Sri Lanka]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Ancient Civilizations, Environment, Mitigation, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[ANURADHAPURA, Sri Lanka — Current climate models forewarn that Sri Lanka’s dry zone is likely to become drier due to climate change, resulting in water shortages for agriculture. A country that has twice been ranked among the top 10 countries in the climate risk index, Sri Lanka intends to revive its village tank cascade systems, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[ANURADHAPURA, Sri Lanka — Current climate models forewarn that Sri Lanka’s dry zone is likely to become drier due to climate change, resulting in water shortages for agriculture. A country that has twice been ranked among the top 10 countries in the climate risk index, Sri Lanka intends to revive its village tank cascade systems, a neglected but highly efficient series of ancient irrigation systems as part of its climate adaptation strategy. A tank cascade system is a hydrologically interconnected series of tanks organized within micro-catchments in the dry zone landscape. The water released to paddy fields from one tank flows to the next, effectively sharing water from the top to the bottom and feeding many paddy lands. Each component in a cascade system adopts a specific functional purpose that can be explained in modern science even though they were designed centuries ago, according to research. A graphical representation of the tank cascade system. Image courtesy of IUCN Sri Lanka. “Restoring the tank cascade system has a wider implication from the point of view of climate change as the system has proved its resilience to extreme weather events,” said P.B. Dharmasena, former research officer at the Department of Agriculture and a specialist in soil and water management. The system can absorb shocks of natural disasters such as floods, which can be controlled by storing water, and drought impact, by reducing water loss from tanks through absorption in the surrounding environment. The cascaded tank-village system also contributes to efficient water management&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/sri-lanka-aims-to-restore-ancient-irrigation-tanks-in-climate-change-plan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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