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The Toben Gaa self-help group in Kenya discussing their agroforestry project, which helps smallholder farmers adapt to climate change. Joseph Gachoka/World Agroforestry/Flickr. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

A Super El Niño is coming: 5 hard‑won lessons the world can learn from Africa

A powerful Super El Niño is looming. Africa has learned hard lessons from past climate disasters that could help the world prepare.
The World Uncertainty Index is a measure that tracks uncertainty across 143 nations by text mining the country-specific reports of the Economist Intelligence Unit. Skorzewiak/Shutterstock

Global uncertainty is the new normal. Here’s why institutional legitimacy and resilience is crucial

Geopolitical and economic uncertainty topped the G7 summit agenda. The world needs strong, inclusive international institutions more than ever.
A climate protest against the South African government in 2022. Protesters demanded an emergency renewable energy plan. Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images/Getty Images

Africa’s climate crisis is a legal crisis too: what are states’ duties under human rights law?

A landmark climate case before the African Court asks what African states must do to protect human rights, phase out fossil fuels, and tackle climate change.
Social housing projects in Barcelona, Spain, which has sought EU funding to build public low-rent accommodation faster and cheaper amid ongoing protests over soaring rents and high home prices. CSP/Shutterstock

Europe needs 10 million homes and net‑zero buildings by 2040. Here are four ways it could happen

The housing shortage is a major concern for many EU citizens. A foresight study by more than 30 experts examines four ways affordable, low-carbon homes could emerge by 2040.
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Hantavirus in Africa: why climate change, rats and weak surveillance are worrying scientists

Weak surveillance and climate change could allow deadly hantaviruses to spread unnoticed across African countries, raising the risk of future outbreaks.
Planting groundnuts on a family farm in Uganda. Badru Katumba/Getty Images

Millions of farmers in Africa’s Great Lakes region face rising temperatures. Study predicts how crop disease and pests could spread

Figuring out how climate change will cause plant disease and pests to spread across Africa’s Great Lakes farms is critical for future food supplies.
Rocks and mud remain where houses used to stand and families used to live in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp

Climate disasters don’t just destroy homes, they change lives forever. We spoke with cyclone survivors in Zimbabwe

Disaster recovery agencies and governments must pay more attention to survivors’ invisible losses: grief, broken communities and disrupted identities.

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