Human security

Relying heavily on land use to tackle climate change could slow the decline in global hunger, according to new research published in Nature Food....Read More

Three times as many sites of sacred value, scientific wonder and natural splendour across Africa could face risks from human-caused climate change by...Read More

Efforts to tackle gender inequality can play a key role in how countries adapt to the growing risks posed by climate change, a new study says.The...Read More

The number of people exposed to water stress could double by 2050 if efforts are not made to keep global warming below 2C above pre-industrial levels...Read More

Across the world, millions of people have tested positive for Covid-19 – and countless more have seen their lifestyles completely transformed as a ...Read More

Over recent decades, inequality between countries has fallen, in particular due to fast economic growth in China and India. But our new research sug...Read More

The past few months have seen locust swarms as large as entire cities sweep across countries in East Africa and surrounding regions.With each ins...Read More

Once again, lives have been turned upside down by flooding across large parts of the UK, following the exceptional rainfall brought by storms Ciara a...Read More

Australia is currently experiencing one of its worst bushfire seasons, with swathes of the southern and eastern coastal regions having been ablaze fo...Read More

Earlier today in Monaco, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing c...Read More

Dr Vijay Limaye is a climate change and health science fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Prof Wendy Max is a professor of hea...Read More
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