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Glaciers in a third of all World Heritage sites, including Africa’s last remaining glaciers, are “condemned to disappear by 2050”. (AFP)
SPACE JUNK

UN: Melting glaciers, heat, space debris among tipping points of risk

Extinctions, depleted groundwater and an uninsurable future are the others, and together they create instability with potentially catastrophic effects

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
Fulani herders lead their livestock to a water point in Dolly on May 30, 2020. – Dolly is a pastoral reserve where Fulani pastoralists can come as a refuge before heading back North as the first rains fall. COVID-19 coronavirus restrictions have closed down markets and regional movement, as a result Fulani herders are struggling to move to areas such as Dolly which have more grazing land and access to water. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP)
BIODIVERSITY

The services nature provides are at risk in a hot world

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report documents hundreds of species that are now extinct

  • Sheree Bega
4 min read