News Source: GMA News
| 3 months ago
Effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines to risk dangerous jobs, and sometimes even into the flesh trade...In the Philippines, small brothels usually pop out near the coastal...
News Source: CNN
| 3 months ago
On the steep, dusty slopes of the Chacaltaya mountains, thousands of meters above sea level in the Bolivian Andes, the hardy farmers tending root crops or herding llamas have no need of scientists or climatologists to measure the impact of global...
News Source: Inter Press Service
| 3 months ago
Poor women will bear the greatest �climate burden�, says the United Nations Population Fund in its 2009 State of the World Population report, released today. The report emphasises that climate change is more than an issue of energy efficiency or...
News Source: Inter Press Service
| 3 months ago
A new U.N. report on the hazards of climate change brings a fresh human perspective to an ongoing wide-ranging debate that has focused primarily on energy efficiency and industrial carbon emissions. Climate change is much more than greenhouse-gas...
News Source: United Press International
| 3 months ago
A United Nations report warns that women will bear the brunt of global climate change since a large share of women rely on agriculture for their livelihoods. Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid said in a written statement. The most telling effect...