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Rising numbers of children in Guatemala are going hungry as drought linked to climate change reduces food harvests, fueling child malnutrition rates in the Central American nation, the United Nations and charities said. Guatemala, which has one of the world's high rates of child malnutrition, recorded more than 15,300 cases of acute malnutrition in children under 5 last year, up…

In the Sahel of West Africa – which covers Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad – land degradation has led to migration towards less densely populated and more fertile areas. The land has been made less fertile by demographic pressure, fragmenting agricultural units and rainfall variability. We did research in Burkina Faso to understand the link between land…

2019 was the year that nature and land use made it to the top of the global agenda. It became clear that we will not meet the Paris Agreement if we don’t solve broken food and land-use systems. Land degradation is affecting 3.2 billion people, and for far too long this has gone under the radar. This must change in 2020. If not, we risk that all the world’s topsoil be eroded in the next 60 years…

SPAIN’S new coalition government has declared a ‘climate and environmental emergency’ in the country, making its first step towards fighting climate change. The announcement was made yesterday evening (January 21) by the Cabinet of Ministers in response to calls for immediate action to safeguard the environment and to lower the impact humans have on the all-encompassing global issue…

Desertification resulting from climate change in North East Nigeria has considerably shrunk bodies of water in the region. One of them — Lake Chad — is a central fishing area. To further complicate matters, fishing is nearly impossible in what is left of the lake because of Boko Haram's decade long insurgency. As fishermen try to settle in new areas, tensions have arisen. ( Listen to audio 6…

The fashion industry produces more harmful carbon emissions than the aviation and shipping industries combined. Does your closet contribute to climate change? Find out with thredUP’s fashion footprint calculator. New study shows that most consumers don’t believe their fashion habits contribute to climate change. thredUP’s ‘Fashion Footprint Calculator’ aims to raise awareness about…