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#1238102020-01-20
'You Need To Act Now': Meet 4 Girls Working To Save The Warming World
A teenage girl, Greta Thunberg, has become the world-famous face of the climate strike movement. But she's far from alone: Thunberg has helped rally and inspire others — especially girls.
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#1245532020-03-05
20 Heroines Revolutionizing Food Activism to Improve the Planet
It’s no secret that women all over the world play an important role in food systems—in cultivating gardens for school canteens in Cote d’Ivoire, producing more than half of the food supply for rural areas in South America, establishing seed banks in India, and developing agricultural technologie ...
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#1245782020-03-09
2020: Super year for women in biodiversity?
On March 8, International Women’s Day, we wanted to celebrate women’s achievements and contributions to life but also be reminded of what is still missing in terms of realizing equity and equality for women, including in the realm of natural resources and the governance of nature.
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#1245932020-03-10
2020: Super year for women in biodiversity?
On March 8, International Women’s Day, we wanted to celebrate women’s achievements and contributions to life but also be reminded of what is still missing in terms of realizing equity and equality for women, including in the realm of natural resources and the governance of nature.
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#1297642021-07-28
2021 Risk Award recognizes Vietnamese women fighting climate change
A mangrove restoration project in Vietnam which combines building the resilience of a disaster-prone coastal community with risk-themed theatre was announced today as the winner of the 2021 Risk Award.
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#1235492019-12-20
5 ways climate change affects women and girls
This Christmas, we are shining the spotlight on some of the dangers that women and girls face when disasters strike. Hear directly from the women and girls who are bearing the brunt of crises around the world.
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#1240622020-02-03
A New Report Reveals Climate Change Is Increasing Gender-Based Violence
Climate breakdown and the global crisis of environmental degradation are increasing violence against women and girls, while gender-based exploitation is in turn hampering our ability to tackle the crises, a major report has concluded.
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#1234932019-12-18
ASEAN sharpens focus on gender in biodiversity conservation
Factoring in gender roles and relations in policymaking is crucial in the success of biodiversity conservation efforts, experts in a regional training workshop conducted here said.
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#1275752021-03-05
ASEAN women: leading the region towards a better normal
Today, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity joins the world in celebrating International Women’s Day. The theme “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world” underlines the central role of women in surmounting one of the worst pandemics of this generation.
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#1274642021-03-02
Africa: International Women's Day, 2021 - Gender Equality Is Our Captain for Sailing to a Green & Just Recovery
The climate crisis doesn't stop for anyone or anything, not even the pandemic that has forced billions of us to radically overhaul our lives. And like the pandemic, climate change has no nationality, agenda or political affiliation.
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#1203302019-03-13
Africa: Why the World Needs an African Ecofeminist Future
Orthodox economic models have failed us all, but women across Africa are resisting them and coming up with visionary alternatives. We need an "African ecofeminist future". And by we, I don't just mean Africa, I mean everyone.
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#1236742020-01-13
African women scientists start taking their rightful place in climate research
As climate change threatens harvests, the lack of researchers, particularly female researchers, is limiting Africa’s ability to cope with the crisis. Bulawayo — As a child, Kenyan meteorologist Saumu Shaka helped out on her parents’ small farm growing maize and pigeon pea — and learned how the w ...
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#1218212019-08-07
Agriculture's secret weapon: empowering women
Women farmers face the brunt of the threat posed by climate change, yet they may hold the key to helping limit its fallout, according to a landmark UN report to be released this week.
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#1276032021-03-08
All-women team of divers works to monitor health of Seychelles' coral
As Seychelles joins the rest of the world to celebrate International Women's Day, SNA spoke with a member of an all-women diver team from the Seychelles Island Foundation currently conducting this year's monitoring in the Aldabra surrounding waters.
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#1322232021-12-20
Amidst The Conflict, Mehreen Khaleel, A Conservationist From Srinagar, Bats For Biodiversity
Mehreen Khaleel (30) is often asked questions like, “People are already dying due to the conflict [in Kashmir]. What will you gain by protecting the wildlife?“
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#1217162019-07-26
Amplify: Involving women in climate-change mitigation isn’t only good policy – it’s good for the planet
Living in a North American bubble of privilege, I was recently gobsmacked by a fact that anyone who works in or with the developing world has long known is true.
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#1275692021-03-05
Angelina Jolie's Buzziest Role Yet? Empowering Women Beekeepers
Angelina Jolie is saving the bees and supporting women at the same time. The actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian was named the "Godmother" of the 2021 Women for Bees program, made in partnership with Guerlain and UNESCO, which will train women beekeepers from all over the world and empower them ...
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#1275052021-03-03
As International Women’s Day approaches, visions for a new era for nature and women
International Women’s Day is approaching this year, on 8 March, at a time when the world is beginning to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic with optimism for a different future yet clairvoyance on the challenges we still face – one of the most pressing ones being the rapid rate of loss of Earth’s ...
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#1221842019-09-11
Breaking news: women have been saving our world long before you knew it
We’re past the time for the banal rhetoric of shattered glass ceilings. My patience has worn thin on vapid compliments and insipid tokenisms.
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#1271012021-02-16
Can We Achieve Gender Equality With Renewable Energy? (Video)
The ongoing energy transformation, driven by renewables, is bringing far-reaching, systemic change to society. Renewable energy employs about 32% women, compared to 22% in the energy sector overall, according to a 2019 report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
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#1231182019-11-26
Climate Change Is Brutal for Everyone, but Worse for Women
The climate crisis is so epic, so vicious, so wide-reaching, that at this point there are few aspects of the human experience it isn’t transforming.
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#1240122020-01-29
Climate breakdown 'is increasing violence against women'
Climate breakdown and the global crisis of environmental degradation are increasing violence against women and girls, while gender-based exploitation is in turn hampering our ability to tackle the crises, a major report has concluded.
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#1283802021-05-02
Conservation Conversation With Razan Al Mubarak: Why We Need More Women To Protect Our Only Home - Planet Earth
The job of a wildlife conservationist is perhaps one of the most difficult and dangerous jobs in the world. It demands toiling hard for a cause meant for a brighter future of all species on Earth including humans. However, convincing the masses that protecting the world's failing ecosystems is t ...
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#1337402022-03-07
Ecofeminism Explores the Relationship Between Women and Nature
When I began writing my book, The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet, I kept thinking about an introductory guidebook to the world of environmentalism that young environmentalists of color like myself could see themselves reflected in.
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#1227862019-10-29
Educating Girls May Be Nigeria's Best Defense Against Climate Change
The call-and-response is enthusiastic, rising above the sound of a fan whirring furiously in the corner of the room. About 50 women stand in a circle around the song leader, who pounds the air with an invisible hammer. When she gets to the second verse—"I will hammer with two hammers!"—she pumps ...
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#1348942022-06-07
For more equitable and sustainable fisheries, women must be empowered to lead
An estimated 45 million women make up 40 per cent of the workforce in small-scale fisheries worldwide. But they are left out of decision-making processes when it comes to the access and use of fisheries and coastal resources.
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#1189422018-12-07
Gender equality vital part of forest-based climate action, says CIFOR scientist at COP24
Gender-blind climate action risks jeopardizing efficiency and long-term sustainability
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#1200852019-02-25
Gender equality: goal to achieve?
The social, cultural, and power structure around the world has not provided the same privileges to women as compared to men. These persistent differences eventually create more gaps. Gender equality is when both men and women have equal rights, opportunities, accessibility of resources and parti ...
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#1202102019-03-05
Girls’ Love of Science Takes Root in Rural Colombia
In an isolated part of Colombia better known for rice, pineapples, and paramilitaries, something else is taking root: the next generation of female scientists. In 2016, Colombia’s government signed a peace treaty with the FARC guerilla group to bring an end to the country’s 50-year civil conflic ...
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#1283362021-04-30
Girls’ education is key to climate change solutions
Three people involved in addressing climate change through girls’ and gender-equal education share their insights and policy ideas about how a green learning agenda can help address the climate crisis through education. Christina Kwauk is a nonresident fellow in the Center for Universal Educatio ...
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#1288042021-05-25
Green growth: the save-the-mangrove scheme reaping rewards for women in Kenya
Kenya’s mangroves have been harvested for centuries, the timber used in shipbuilding and for ornate doors and furniture as well as shipped across the Indian Ocean and around the world.
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#1236822020-01-13
How Nepal benefits when women become active in water management
Humanitarian engineering student Elia Hauge discovers that a changing demographic in Nepal has led to more women taking on active roles in managing water.
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#1293532021-06-16
How Women Can Save the Planet by Anne Karpf review – clear and invigorating
The language around the climate crisis, the journalist Anne Karpf writes in How Women Can Save the Planet, can conceal as much as it reveals. Take “natural disaster”. There is nothing “natural” about the disasters that have struck our planet owing to global heating.
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#1347512022-05-27
How are young women protecting the ocean in the Asia-Pacific region?
The magnificent seascapes are one of the first things that come to mind when someone thinks about the Asia-Pacific region, along with the colorful cultures that have been thriving in the area for centuries. The Pacific Ocean has been supporting the livelihoods, well-being, and sense of identity ...
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#1278952021-04-05
How millet production can empower women farmers, strengthen agriculture
Recently, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution initiated by India with Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Russia and Senegal to mark 2023 as the 'International Year of Millets'. This move will help bring global attention on millets, which are nutritionally and eco ...
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#1259422020-12-01
How women from Hazaribagh are sparking a green revolution in the heart of India's coal state
Women farmers like Rina Yadav — a mother of three — are part of PRADAN and Corteva Agriscience's initiative to promote sustainable agriculture and financial literacy in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.
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#1283742021-04-30
How women in Cambodia’s floating villages are adapting to climate change
It might sound idyllic to some, living by the gentle rhythm of the current. But for inhabitants of the floating villages of Pursat, Cambodia, life on the Tonlé Sap river can be tough. Employment opportunities that exist on dry land are often unavailable to water-dwelling locals, and one that is ...
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#1204472019-03-21
In Ethiopia, women and faith drive effort to restore biodiversity
In a tiny home not far from the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, 80-year-old Aragash Boka finally rests from a long day’s work carrying an awkward, heavy load. Boka lives and works in a corner of the world where, for the most part, fuelwood has remained important to daily life for centuries.
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#1263442020-12-18
In Kenya’s changing climate, women are claiming land rights to feed their families
14 years ago, Alice Lasoi’s marriage ended after eight years. With four children in tow and seven months pregnant, she returned to her father’s home, Namelok village in Kajiado, southern Kenya.
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#1202262019-03-06
In protecting their forests, these women transformed their futures
Had it not been for the women of the Roro tribe, things might look bleaker in their lush corner of Papua New Guinea.Set upon by companies unsustainably extracting the fish and timber that provide the indigenous group’s livelihoods and food security, the Roro saw an already difficult existence be ...
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#1320132021-12-02
India's all-female rainforest team take on cobras to protect biodiversity
As deforestation and climate change ravage India's Western Ghats mountain range, an all-female rainforest force is battling to protect one of the area's last enclaves of biodiversity.
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#1322382021-12-21
Indian climate action entrepreneur wins United Nations Women’s Award for Leadership Commitment to Gender Equality
Divya Hegde from Udupi, coastal Karnataka, has won the UN Women’s Award for Leadership Commitment at the 2021 Regional Asia-Pacific Women’s Empowerment Principles Awards ceremony on November 18th, 2021. She has been recognised for her sustained efforts in advancing gender equality through climat ...
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#1321442021-12-10
Indian woman researcher discovers over 50 species of frogs
Not only is Dr. Garg India’s first woman researcher to discover 50 new frog species, earlier this week, she was awarded the prestigious Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at Harvard University
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#1245632020-03-06
International Women's Day: progress on gender equality remains slow
The report finds faltering progress and notes that hard-won advances are being reversed by rampant inequality, climate change, conflict and exclusionary politics.
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#1275772021-03-08
International Women’s Day 2021: A Demand for Justice
It has been nearly one year since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. One year since the virus locked down the world -- and revealed countless truths about the status of women and girls today.
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#1275792021-03-08
International Women’s Day: Female photographers reflect on gender, environment and the pandemic
While the world has made a great many strides in the upliftment of women, on gender equality and equity, there is still a lot of work that needs to be done, and March 8 is a reminder of just that. One of the key aspects of understanding what affects women globally, is looking at life through the ...
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#1275902021-03-08
It's time to bolster women in conservation
Women are largely being excluded from decisions about conservation and natural resources, with potentially detrimental effects on conservation efforts globally, according to research.
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#1215752019-07-15
Jamaican women tackle the climate crisis on all sides
Globally, startling changes in the environment disproportionately affect women in developing countries, largely because of their lower economic and social status. In Jamaica, women head about 46 percent of households and bear the brunt of responsibility for shelter, water, and food security.
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#1241162020-02-11
Leading Shropshire scientist retiring after 40 years urges girls to embark on career in science
Sue Townsend, Biodiversity Learning Manager at the Field Studies Council (FSC) in Montford Bridge, near Shrewsbury, will hang up her wellies at the end of this week.
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#1275782021-03-08
Mongabay-India editor recognized among ‘16 Women Restoring the Earth’
Across the globe, women are leading the charge to protect and restore the environment. Today, on International Women’s Day, the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) honors 16 Women Restoring the Earth through music, science, policy, journalism, land rights, finance, and many other creative and effectiv ...