Kumara Wakjira has been protecting Ethiopia’s wildlife for over 30 years.

The director general of Ethiopia’s wildlife authority has slashed bycatch of Nile crocodiles and overseen the establishment of national parks to protect elephants and monkeys.

Last year, in recognition of these and other achievements, he

When South Africa hosted the first G20 summit on African soil in November 2025, its ambition was unmistakable.

For decades, the world’s most powerful economies had debated climate finance, development and energy transitions largely without the continent that will experience many of the consequences most acutely. The Johannesburg summit was meant to change that.

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Rafael Grossi has spent the past six years at the centre of the world’s most dangerous nuclear standoffs – and now he wants the world’s most demanding diplomatic job.

The 65-year-old Argentine has led the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog, since 2019. In that time, he has navigated the decline of the Iran nuclear deal, negotiated c...

Over two billion years old, the Aravalli mountain range in north-western India feels like an oasis running through Rajasthan’s hot, arid landscape.

Its rolling hills, biodiverse forests and water bodies form a massive green wall protecting the rest of the country from the heat and dust that rises from the Thar Desert on the western edge of the state.

Yet d...

It was the beginning of spring in Karachi, and frigid mornings were giving way to balmy afternoons. But Bilal Colony was already far warmer than the rest of the city, and uncomfortably so.

This is a CATCH story

This story is part of Dialogue Earth’s work on the Community Adaptations to City Heat (CATCH) project, in partnership with Boston University. The proje...