Climate and Environment

A family goes in search of water in Burkina Faso where more than 950,000 people are severely food insecure, notably in the conflict-hit northern regions.
OCHA/Otto Bakano

Fragile countries risk being ‘stuck in a cycle of conflict and climate disaster,’ Security Council told

11 July 2018
Global

Climate change ­– and the shortages of water and food that come from it – is becoming increasingly linked to conflict, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council on Wednesday, warning that countries most vulnerable to drought and crop failure are also most vulnerable to conflict and fragility.

A resident of the National Tapajos Forest in Brazil collects wild foliage for preparing a meal.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Forests ‘essential’ for the future, UN agriculture chief spells out in new report

6 July 2018
Global

Time is running out for the world’s forests, warns a new report by the United Nations agriculture agency, urging governments to foster an all-inclusive approach to benefit both trees and those who rely on them.

Fisherwomen like Falmata Mboh Ali (right) hard at work on Lake Chad, which has shrunk to a tenth of its original size over the past decades leaving dwindling stocks of fish.
UN News/Dan Dickinson

Fisherwomen of Lake Chad show optimism in face of multiple challenges

5 July 2018
Africa

It’s eight o’clock in the morning and fifty-year-old Falmata Mboh Ali paddles her small dugout canoe to the shores of a tributary of Lake Chad in Bol, a small town 100 miles north of the capital of Chad, N’Djamena.