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Stories of transformations to sustainability
Seven films on social transformations to sustainability launched today by the Transformations to Sustainability programme.
28.09.2022
Giving new life to old languages in Australia
How Australia’s sleeping indigenous languages are being reawakened.
21.02.2022
Empowering marginalized communities
The indigenous swimming camels of India’s Kutch district and their herders recently played a part in setting an important precedent. These rare camels, known as the Kharai, are only found in India’s Gujarat state, and are dependent on the mangrove islands in the creeks there for grazing. Local communities, in turn, depend on their milk and meat for their livelihoods. When a large chunk of the mangroves was destroyed for salt extraction, female herders were able to use photographic evidence, satellite images and community maps to describe the damage in order to claim rights to the common land and grazing routes, eventually winning protection with a National Green Tribunal.
08.12.2021
Tapping into deep history to manage water scarcity in Africa
For centuries, pastoralist communities have herded animals across arid plains in Ethiopia and Kenya, guided by the sacred wells that quenched their ancestors’ thirst in times of drought. The wells are enduring markers in a land of mobile clans and erratic weather, where heat waves may become more extreme and water availability less predictable due to the effects of climate change.
03.12.2021
The communities using astronomy to bring tourism to their region
In a post-Covid-19 world, tourists are looking for new experiences in remote, safe places.
23.11.2021
What Antarctica can teach us about global climate change
Locked away in the ice are clues to how the climate has responded to change in the past.
19.11.2021
Unlocking Science hub
Start your multimedia journey to explore their stories, happening all over the world from Antarctica to the Amazon.
10.11.2021
Gender equality in science
Inclusion and Participation of Women in Global Science Organizations
29.09.2021
Transform21: Global Science Portal for a year of transformations
Uniting the world to tackle climate change Uniting the world behind science
05.05.2021