Digitising heritage: Tuvalu preserves history online as rising seas threaten existence
Tuvalu is among nations digitising heritage in the face of climate impacts, but there are concerns around cost, access and control. RINA CHANDRAN and MD TAHMID ZAMI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Bangladeshi veteran of UN climate talks fears COP26 will fail the world’s poorest
Glasgow, UK Thomson Reuters Foundation For top Bangladeshi scientist Saleemul Huq, the inequities of climate change are hard to avoid – even at the COP26 UN talks in Glasgow. Since arriving for the crunch negotiations, he’s made a long daily commute to the conference venue by train from his hotel in Edinburgh – the nearest […]
Bangladesh rural families shoulder costs of coping with climate change
DhakaThomson Reuters Foundation Bangladeshi families in rural areas have been spending 12 times more each year than the foreign aid the flood-prone country receives to prepare for and cope with the effects of climate change, researchers said last week. Households headed by women – who generally earn less than men – are under even greater […]