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The surprising upside of climate migration

To adapt to climate change, people will move. The results will not be all bad.

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As Africa loses forest, its small farmers are bringing back trees

The loss of forests across Africa has long been documented. But recent studies show that small farmers from Senegal to Ethiopia to Malawi are allowing trees to regenerate on their lands, resulting in improved crop yields, productive fruit harvests, and a boost for carbon storage.
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‘We just pray for rain’: Niger is in the eye of the climate crisis – and children are starving

Niger is on the frontline of the climate crisis. Increasingly erratic rainfall and longer dry seasons mean that many parts of the country have not had a good harvest in a decade.

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Meet the Peecyclers. Their Idea to Help Farmers Is No. 1. - The New York Times

A shortage of chemical fertilizer, worsened by the war in Ukraine, has growers desperate. It just so happens that human urine has the very nutrients that crops need.
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How farmers in Earth’s least developed country grew 200 million trees

In the past 35 years, as scientists begged nations to get serious about reviving forests, one of Earth’s poorest countries added an astonishing 200 million new trees. Experts say other continents should be looking to Niger as a model.

Get ready for ‘hell,’ UN food chief warns amid Ukraine shockwaves

Get ready for ‘hell,’ UN food chief warns amid Ukraine shockwaves

World Food Programme flags famine risk in Africa and the Middle East as Ukraine war hits supplies.
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Russia vetoes UN resolution linking climate change, security

Russia on Monday vetoed a first-of-its-kind U.N. Security Council resolution casting climate change as a threat to international peace and security, sinking a years-long effort to make global warming more central to decision-making in the U.N.'s most powerful body.

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