Climate Disaster and Public Health in the Gambia Climate change in The Gambia is no longer something that comes as a far-off warning that is being written on the pages of scientific books; it is something that is affecting lives, health, and our future. The Gambia, been one of the smallest and least developed countries […]
How would it feel if, literally, every environmental change was directly manifesting as a scar on some part of your body? What if every piece of contaminated water was flowing through your bloodstream? The world around us and how we feel it, affects us as much as we feel it. This instinct and reflex connote […]
On the 27th of October, the world watched what many could consider a doomsday event as Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica, causing casualties, damaging homes, infrastructure, and shattering livelihoods. The slow-moving Category 5 storm caused horrifying scenes as heavy storms and rainfall overflowed rivers and water bodies, causing massive flooding that led to many […]
We usually see natural disasters as an unstoppable act of God, it become events where human power becomes useless standing against nature. But the tragedy of Derna, Libya challenges this narrative. The scar has cut the city in half, made a path of mud and rubble where neighborhoods once stood. This is not only the […]
When walking around coastal areas in Liberia, regions like Buchanan, Robertsport, and West Point, you will observe the impact of coastal erosion on people and their livelihoods. (S. David, 2023). Homes are gradually sinking in the Atlantic; soils used for agricultural purposes are devastated by unprecedented rainfall, and the ground is eroding daily. Flooding poses […]
Communicating Climate Change Indonesia is generally perceived as a nation where climate awareness is relatively low. Simply put, this is witnessed by the usual behavior of people in excessive single-use plastic products and the general absence of consciousness regarding waste sorting and advanced processes. In general, the public often fails to recognize the urgency of […]
“Water is Jakarta’s ally” The first thing that comes to the mind when we think about Jakarta is a picture of a metropolitan city with its relationship with water. Seasonal floods and tidal floods are undeniable especially when climate change is the culprit of this disaster, also the phenomena of sea-level rise, and the urban […]
The Documentary That Exposed Indonesia’s Dirty Climate Secret The Sexy Killers documentary released on YouTube in 2019 was not just a documentary, but it led to an uproar in the whole country. Within several weeks, 30 million Indonesians were compelled to confront the reality in which they had never been ready to encounter: their flourishing […]
For decades, the global dialogue that centred on climate change has been dominated by two numbers: the increasing nature of carbon dioxide per million tons into the atmosphere, and gigawatt targets set by nations for mitigation. India a highly populated and culturally diverse country, the focus on emissions and macro-targets did not capture the hundreds […]
The arid fields of Wimbe, Malawi are under the blazing sun. The earth is torn apart by cracks and the crops are shriveled into withered husks. A family, helpless and standing next to a dying field is debating whether to make another planting or to submit to hunger. In this desperation, some young boy, William […]
Jonathan Tarnue Payne 
Precious Douglas Maulana 
Eslam Mohamed Elsheikh 
Lutfi Nurachma 
David R.K Brown 
Asef Jafari