Dan Box teaches a class about climate change and its effects on the Carteret Islands, which are sinking due to rising sea levels, and how children can help stop climate change.
… I am going in to the first of two primary schools where I have been asked to give an … One of the two is my own former primary school, though it’s changed a bit since I was …
Dan Box reports from a community in its death throes, as the Carteret islanders pack up their homes and prepare to become the world’s first climate change refugees
… murmur of conversation. There is a church, a school, and breadfruit cooking on fires made … now and these people’s lives: the church, the school, the children playing in the crystal …
We've lost control of our spending and debt to international bond markets and whoever wins the election won't be able to take it back
… billions not to spend on hospitals and schools, but to repay the money we have … newts the way they care about hospitals and schools. Both local and national conservation …
Isolated by the surrounding desert, Kashgar was once
an oasis on the old Silk Road. Now the city is being overwhelmed in the rush to open up the region’s oil and gas reserves. By Dan Box.
… early age. ‘When I was in elementary school,’ says Lisa, ‘we had to learn Chinese … Compulsory education was established in state schools to ‘abolish narrow nationalism and… … religious powers’. Mosques, imams and Islamic schools must be officially sanctioned. …
Pete the Temp's remarkable 'spoken word' show is challenging, inspiring, terrifying and amusing audiences across Britain, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron. But it's performance with a purpose - to engage people in a positive fight to protect the Earth from catastrophic climate change. And so far, it seems to be working ...
… he's not on stage or teaching at a primary school in Newham, Pete can be seen performing … part-time 'spoken word educator' at a primary school in Newham, using poetry to get children …
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron. That ability to straddle the two very different worlds he inhabits has been key to his success at having 200,000 acres of land registered into village and community ownership - and his own 2016 Goldman Prize.
… our local communities to take their kids to school. For although we need to preserve our … they come back as teachers at our local school, or doctors in our local hospital or … sense of community. There is an area for schools and other training centres, smaller …
As the worst drought in 100 years makes its effects felt in the southern hemisphere, Dan Box asks whether the Australian interior is becoming a terra nullius – a genuine no-man’s-land
… quick black strokes she outlines the mission school at which she spent her childhood in the … by moving, following the rain. The missionary schools, with their distribution of ration … would still collect her from the mission school and walk out through the desert, …
Reports of severe flooding around the UK, widely believed to be linked to climate change, pour in. But Owen Paterson, reports Sophie Morlin-Yron, has sharply cut the budget for coping with the effects of climate change.
… UK. Bob Ward, policy director at the London School of Economics' Grantham Research …
Tackling climate change will have lots of knock-on benefits, but one we probably haven't considered is what it will do to car-related injuries. Dan Box meets a man who has...
… Ian (or Dr Roberts , he works at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) once …
Our lives are now so dependent on oil that it is impossible to conceive of a world without it. Before long, however, we will have no choice. The sooner we start planning for that reality, and changing the way we live, the better our chance of survival.
… working in another, driving their children to school in another and shopping in another. As … save money by living, working, shopping and schooling the children in the same place. …
From child-soldier to Netflix star, the Congolese park ranger has won his award for stopping oil exploration in the Virunga National Park. He talks to SOPHIE MORLIN-YRON
… rescued by his mother. He then went back to school to study biology, as he "always wanted …
Lead poisoning from industrial pollution has imposed a terrible toll on Kenyans, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron, and single mother Phyllis Omido is no exception - lead from a nearby metal refinery badly damaged her own son's health. But it was when she decided to fight back against the polluters that a whole new realm of threats and dangers opened up.
… adds. She also runs mentorship programmes for school children through the organisation to …
Earlier this year, journalist Dan Box won recognition from environmentalist George Monbiot for documenting the world's first climate change evacuation, of the Carteret islands in the South Pacific. Now, he returns to his experiences to ask if this is the first evacuation of many, how should we do it in future?
… seat, behind a bare wooden desk with a school exercise book for paper. Instead they …