You are here: Homepage Tag climate change Articles To prevent the slope on which the houses stand from slipping under the weight of the lorries, they only stop at the foot of the hill Photo: Marco Garro Climate | Peru The thirsty metropolis: Lima Lima is one of the largest desert cities in the world. Of its inhabitants, 635,000 have no access to water. Climate change may make the situation in the Peruvian capital even worse By Elizabeth Salazar Vega 01/26/2024 Desertification | Rumania “We are losing fertile land every year” Why are deserts increasing worldwide? An interview with the Romanian meteorologist Roxana Bojariu Interview with Roxana Bojariu 01/26/2024 The Limon family house in Munshiganj Photo: K M Asad for KULTURAUSTAUSCH How we live now | Bangladesh A flood-proof home How can our homes deal with climate change? This house in the Munshiganj region can simply be moved when the floods come. By KM Asad 06/01/2023 Diamnadio Island is located in the branching Saloum River delta in western Senegal. The effects of climate change are becoming ever more apparent here Foto: FAO / John Wessels Climate change | Senegal The island that’s left behind In the middle of the Saloum river delta in Senegal lies the island of Diamniadio. Here people live off the sea – but every year the nets get a little emptier By Gundula Haage 01/09/2023 The many faces of the Earth: Photograph taken by astronaut Pedro Duque during the "Cervantes" mission from the ISS, 2004. Photo: Pedro Duque / Soyuz TMA-3 / Cervantes Mission / ESA Books | Climate change The start of a new era Climate change presents us with unprecedented challenges. The Indian historian Dipesh Chakrabarty calls for a change of perspective and in the process rediscovers human history By John Vidal 07/01/2022 Residents fill containers with drinkable water at a slum in Hyderabad, India, 2015 Photo: Noah Seelam / AFP /Getty Images Climate change | Society “We are mismanaging it badly” Melting glaciers, rising sea levels: scientist Aditi Mukherji explains why it is high time we change how we deal with water. A conversation Interview with Aditi Mukherji 07/01/2022 People standing on the so-called Pillars on the beach at Mount Martha, Australia. For an indepth fotographic research on the subject of water, photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz visited places where our careless relationship with this vital resource becomes apparent. Photo: Mustafah Abdulaziz Climate | Photography “Water is like a mirror” Droughts, forest fires, floods: humanity is quietly heading for a climate crisis. With his photo series on water, Mustafah Abdulaziz holds a mirror up to what’s happening. A conversation Interview with Mustafah Abdulaziz 07/01/2022 Aline Abboud has been hosting Tagesthemen on ARD since 2021 Photo: Kirsten Nijhof / zb /picture alliance Flashback | Lebanon In the shade of the cedar tree The cedar tree is Lebanon’s national symbol. Unfortunately, the ancient trees can be seen only sporadically By Aline Abboud 04/14/2022 The Rótarjökull glacier in 1999 Photo: "The glacier melt series 1999/2019" by Olafur Eliasson, courtesy of the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Books | Climate change The new reality Can the climate crisis still be halted? Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, authors of the Paris Agreement, are determined to keep looking forward. By Andri Snær Magnason 10/01/2021 43 million tons of lignite are burned in Poland's largest power plant every year Photo: Getty Images The new Poland White smoke on the horizon The world’s biggest brown-coal power station is in Poland. That’s not the only reason the Warsaw government is finding it hard to kick-start an energy transition By Mateusz Kowalik 07/01/2021 Climate ethics | Mexico Climate sinners Politicians and companies like to urge people to do their bit to help the environment, creating a smokescreen for their own failure to act. By Luis Fernández-Carril 03/29/2019
To prevent the slope on which the houses stand from slipping under the weight of the lorries, they only stop at the foot of the hill Photo: Marco Garro Climate | Peru The thirsty metropolis: Lima Lima is one of the largest desert cities in the world. Of its inhabitants, 635,000 have no access to water. Climate change may make the situation in the Peruvian capital even worse By Elizabeth Salazar Vega 01/26/2024
Desertification | Rumania “We are losing fertile land every year” Why are deserts increasing worldwide? An interview with the Romanian meteorologist Roxana Bojariu Interview with Roxana Bojariu 01/26/2024
The Limon family house in Munshiganj Photo: K M Asad for KULTURAUSTAUSCH How we live now | Bangladesh A flood-proof home How can our homes deal with climate change? This house in the Munshiganj region can simply be moved when the floods come. By KM Asad 06/01/2023
Diamnadio Island is located in the branching Saloum River delta in western Senegal. The effects of climate change are becoming ever more apparent here Foto: FAO / John Wessels Climate change | Senegal The island that’s left behind In the middle of the Saloum river delta in Senegal lies the island of Diamniadio. Here people live off the sea – but every year the nets get a little emptier By Gundula Haage 01/09/2023
The many faces of the Earth: Photograph taken by astronaut Pedro Duque during the "Cervantes" mission from the ISS, 2004. Photo: Pedro Duque / Soyuz TMA-3 / Cervantes Mission / ESA Books | Climate change The start of a new era Climate change presents us with unprecedented challenges. The Indian historian Dipesh Chakrabarty calls for a change of perspective and in the process rediscovers human history By John Vidal 07/01/2022
Residents fill containers with drinkable water at a slum in Hyderabad, India, 2015 Photo: Noah Seelam / AFP /Getty Images Climate change | Society “We are mismanaging it badly” Melting glaciers, rising sea levels: scientist Aditi Mukherji explains why it is high time we change how we deal with water. A conversation Interview with Aditi Mukherji 07/01/2022
People standing on the so-called Pillars on the beach at Mount Martha, Australia. For an indepth fotographic research on the subject of water, photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz visited places where our careless relationship with this vital resource becomes apparent. Photo: Mustafah Abdulaziz Climate | Photography “Water is like a mirror” Droughts, forest fires, floods: humanity is quietly heading for a climate crisis. With his photo series on water, Mustafah Abdulaziz holds a mirror up to what’s happening. A conversation Interview with Mustafah Abdulaziz 07/01/2022
Aline Abboud has been hosting Tagesthemen on ARD since 2021 Photo: Kirsten Nijhof / zb /picture alliance Flashback | Lebanon In the shade of the cedar tree The cedar tree is Lebanon’s national symbol. Unfortunately, the ancient trees can be seen only sporadically By Aline Abboud 04/14/2022
The Rótarjökull glacier in 1999 Photo: "The glacier melt series 1999/2019" by Olafur Eliasson, courtesy of the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Books | Climate change The new reality Can the climate crisis still be halted? Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, authors of the Paris Agreement, are determined to keep looking forward. By Andri Snær Magnason 10/01/2021
43 million tons of lignite are burned in Poland's largest power plant every year Photo: Getty Images The new Poland White smoke on the horizon The world’s biggest brown-coal power station is in Poland. That’s not the only reason the Warsaw government is finding it hard to kick-start an energy transition By Mateusz Kowalik 07/01/2021
Climate ethics | Mexico Climate sinners Politicians and companies like to urge people to do their bit to help the environment, creating a smokescreen for their own failure to act. By Luis Fernández-Carril 03/29/2019