As COP 28 continues in Dubai, women have a larger role in the proceedings than ever: Women’s participation in national delegations to the UN COP climate conferences rose from 30 to 35 percent from 2012 to 2022, UN Women reports. Yet this week, the organization has released an alarming report on feminist climate justice.

Kenya’s Forest and Wildlife Services are carrying out brutal and forceful evictions of the indigenous Ogiek people from their homes in the Mau Forest, in the country’s Rift Valley.

On Tuesday, officials in Florida’s Miami-Dade County rejected a bill that would have created the first county-level workplace heat protections in the United States. In the face of our ever-increasing climate challenges, such regulations can save lives. But there are few laws in place around the world that protect people who work outdoors, let alone dedicated offices to protection from heat.

While the world is lagging in its promises to slow global warming, a new report finds that there is not only a problem with meeting goals set by the Paris Agreement, but that there is also major gap — between $194 billion and $366 billion per year — in the finances required to hit important climate targets.

In the remote Himalayan village of Pahalgam, Zubaida Begum, a resilient 45-year-old mother of three, faces a daily battle against nature’s capricious wrath. Living in a mountainous place where the elements can be unforgiving, she stands as a beacon of courage, safeguarding her family's survival in the rugged terrain.