Dialogue Earth

“The rising fuel cost keeps eating into my income,” says 60-year-old Ramsurat, an app-based cab driver in New Delhi. Ramsurat first felt the pinch back in the 90s, when he was a young truck driver in his hometown of Uttar Pradesh. The 1990-91 Gulf War between Kuwait and Iraq pushed up fuel costs in India, which impacted truck driver incomes, forcing him and others like him to...

Last summer, Shelley Bontje went to a friend’s wedding in Markelo, a village in the east of the Netherlands. The venue was hard to reach on public transport, so most guests drove.

Bontje was driving an EV – but it was neither her own, nor a rental. Perhaps she could be considered the owner of one-tenth of it.

That car was part of the

Fishers around the Pacific are bracing for a potentially huge El Niño, which would pile pressure on an industry already struggling with surging fuel prices due to the conflict in the Gulf.

El Niño is a naturally occurring weather p...

For 27 years, the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi has been the closest thing Marriam Habimana has had to a permanent home. A 30-year-old Burundian refugee and single mother of three, she has built her family’s survival around one certainty: the monthly food assistance from the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

Since the establishment of the camp in 1994, WFP has been pr...

At a moment scientists most need to understand what is happening in the ocean, some of the systems built to observe it are being switched off or allowed to shrink.

Last month, it was revealed that the US government under President Donald Trump was