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Investing in gender equality and women’s empowerment can unlock human potential on a transformational scale.

• 06/14/2021
• Tedi Rabold

Like SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, the Ebola virus is a zoonotic pathogen that can be transmitted between animals and humans.

• 06/10/2021
• USAID

According to the recently released Amazon Vision 2020 Report, USAID and its global partners improved the management and conditions of key landscapes in the Amazon, working on more than 48 million hectares.

• 06/10/2021
• USAID

Students from St. Scholastica Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya studied the links between weather patterns and malaria occurrences using mosquito habitat mapping within the Lake Victoria region in Kenya.

• 06/09/2021
• Climatelinks

As COVID-19 has made us all painfully aware, there can be serious global consequences when disease-causing pathogens make the leap to humans from other animals.

• 06/08/2021
• USAID

The water-energy-food nexus represents a $5 trillion consumer market, millions of livelihoods, and the source of all food that people around the world eat.

• 06/03/2021
• Katie Bailey

Climate change impacts land use, fresh water supply, and clean air and places a disproportionate burden on vulnerable and marginalized populations, especially women and girls.

• 06/02/2021
• Corey Nelson, Allison Annette Foster

Research increasingly shows that climate change disproportionately impacts women, and we can see this unfold in agriculture. Mozambique is one of the most susceptible countries to climate change in the world.

• 06/02/2021
• Nic Dexter

Our 2021 Photo Contest theme is Climate Change and People: The Challenges and Opportunities. We’re looking for submissions that capture the human dimension of climate change, in particular, social and economic responses to global change.

• 06/01/2021
• Climatelinks

“[Women are] disproportionately impacted by climate change, more vulnerable to gender-based violence, and therefore disproportionately impacted by conflict.” – Vice President Kamala Harris, remarks to the 65th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

• 05/27/2021
• Jamie Wen-Besson, Georgia Hartman