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Updated: Tue, 22 May 2018

South Africa’s battle between coal and climate

video-trustdocs Young lives on the line: #climatecrisis
As the threats of climate change continue to worsen, 16 young people are taking the fight for a safer planet in front of the United Nations. Meet four of them. By Nicky Milne and Valeria Cardi | Wed, 9 Sep 2020
video-trustdocs Land of Little Rain
The water in California's eastern Owens Valley has for a century flowed south to Los Angeles. But climate change and court decisions about indigenous water rights may force a rethink of how California uses and shares water. By Claudio Accheri | Thu, 6 Jun 2019
video-trustdocs Is our love of avocados drying Chile's water supplies?
In Petorca, in Chile's Valparaiso region, local people and small avocado farmers say the arrival of big commercial avocado companies more than a decade ago has led to increasingly severe water shortfalls. By Nicola Milne and Timothy Moss | Fri, 7 Jun 2019
video-trustdocs City of Dry Lakes | Bangalore in 360
The Indian tech capital of Bangalore is paying a high price for years of rapid urbanisation: Taps that are running dry, as water shortages grow and expanses of the city rely on water delivered by tanker truck. By Claudio Accheri, Rajan Zaveri, Annie Banerji | Thu, 6 Jun 2019
video-trustdocs Living with the oceans
Locals pioneer safer fishing alternatives to protect seas off Madagascar By Nicky Milne | Tue, 29 May 2018
video-shortcuts Thirsty Singapore taps into innovation to secure its water future
Facing growing water stress and worried about tensions over imports from Malaysia, Singapore is harnessing innovative technology and policy to shore up its water supplies By Claudio Accheri and Michael Taylor | Wed, 12 Jun 2019
video-trustdocs The art of catching fog
The fog catchers conjuring water out of Moroccan mist By Valeria Cardi | Thu, 17 May 2018
video-trustdocs Falling Freetown
Falling Freetown: Sierra Leone mudslide survivors live in fear of fresh disaster By Nicky Milne and Timothy Moss | Thu, 10 May 2018
video-trustdocs Urban nomads: Mongolian herders face cultural, climate challenge
As climate-driven drought takes hold, Mongolia's nomads are retreating to the city - and facing choking pollution By Max Baring | Thu, 3 May 2018
video-trustdocs Louisiana 'islanders' find a new home beyond the water
"This is our rebirth where we can start our re-population, to get off that endangered species list, and begin again" By Nicky Milne and Valeria Cardi | Mon, 23 Apr 2018
video-trustdocs Learning to live with water: Louisiana confronts climate threats
'The water's not going anywhere' - Louisiana confronts climate threats By Nicky Milne and Timothy Moss | Wed, 25 Apr 2018
video-shortcuts 'We live in fear': Facing dry times, rural South Africans rethink
As climate change and population growth bring more water scarcity, drought-hit villages are are adapting - but conflict over limited water is growing By Claudio Accheri and Kim Harrisberg | Wed, 12 Jun 2019
video-trustdocs Guardians of the Forest
On the frontline with the Guardians of the Forest By Max Baring, Karla Mendes | Mon, 13 May 2019
video-trustdocs The remote Alaskan village divided over oil drilling
Climate change, oil and tribal politics in north slope, Alaska By Max Baring and Gregory Scruggs | Wed, 24 Apr 2019
video-trustdocs From camel to cup
From camel to cup: Camel milk froths hopes in drought-hit Kenya By Nicky Milne, Jeong-One Park | Thu, 16 May 2019
video-trustdocs From darkness to light
Women bring light to remote villages on islands of Zanzibar By Nicky Milne, Valeria Cardi | Tue, 21 May 2019

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