“Exhausting and time-taking”: How women in rural Ethiopia describe doing laundry
by Meghna Mukherjee, Getanew Tesfaw and Assefa Kumssa Zeyneba lives in Koloba Hawas village in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. … Continued
The WaterBlog
“Rats are gods, shrews are goddesses”
By Luwieke Bosma, Saroj Yakami, Dikhyani and Abraham Abhishek We are in India, in the state of Madhya Pradesh. Here many people belong first and foremost to their tribal community, such as Gond or Baiga. Many of these communities live remote and secluded, some hardly participate in the society at large. They have kept their own practices, beliefs and wisdoms. Kumharra and Dhamanpani (locally called “Mars”) are 2 villages in this arid hilly tract of Madhya Pradesh. They grow paddy rice, millets, a variety of pulses and grams, and some vegetables in the monsoon season. Mainly for their own sustenance, where part of the crops is sold at the market as well, in return for items such as oil and spices. When we visited these villages and asked about rodents, and rats in particular, people reacted surprised “we have never been asked about rats before”. And the question was raised “have you come all the way to ask us about… Continued
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The potential of roadside trees to offset CO2
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Right tree, right place: redesigning Europe’s forests with AI
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The IPCC 6th assessment report – a peek at the compilation process from the back-end
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Common risks: four stories on rural laundry
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Podcast: Life at the climate forefront – The Sundarbans through photos
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Podcast: Toilets in Refugee Camps- Tineke Hooijmans, IHE Delft
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With Manual Labour and Honey Against Climate Disaster and Hunger
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Protecting the granary: the need for Ecologically Based Rodent Management in Sahelian Niger
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Podcast: Rivers Remember- How the 2015 floods changed Chennai
In 2015, Chennai was hit by a major flood, considered to be the worst flood to hit that part of … Continued
(Dec 9, 2021) Summary of IPCC AR6 WGI report: Sea level rise and Regional climate change
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Making life lighter: on improving laundry
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Pastoralist frontiers in Balochistan, Pakistan
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A ‘Third Way’ to Combat Climate Change: Microclimates
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Counting Trees with drones and Artificial Intelligence
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Food Preservation – the Blessing of Seasonality
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