Donate

Maldives

firefighters in a line

The world kept warming in 2022. Is the 1.5-degree Celsius target within reach?

Climate Change

Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is the most-repeated goal in the fight against climate change. But as each new year is among recorded history’s hottest, is it still a viable one? 

A crowd of people fill a street waiting on line to vote in Sri Lanka

Maldives extends voting in tense presidential election

Former Maldives deputy UN ambassador Thilmeeza Hussain at the global climate conference in Paris in December, 2015, just before the adoption of the landmark Paris Agreement. With a suddenly very different political environment in the US, Hussain says clim

World climate activists to US: Please don’t be a ‘rogue state’ under Trump

Environment
An immigrant laborer working in a landfill on Thilafushi, the island used for waste disposal in the Maldives.

An island of toxic trash plagues the Maldives

Environment

First Days: South Asian Americans share stories of first days in America

Global Politics

VIDEO: In the Maldives, president claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint

Global Politics

Riots raged in the Maldives recently, as people upset over the arrest of a popular judge tried to make their voice heard. Depending on who you ask, it worked. The nation’s president resigned — but he now says he did so at gunpoint in what amounts to a coup.

Maldives working to be carbon-neutral by 2020

Environment

About two years ago, the Maldives announced the nation would be carbon-neutral by 2020. That’s a tall order for a country that spends 15 percent of GDP on diesel fuel, but work is progressing toward that goal.

In the island nation of the Maldives, China and India trying to assert themselves

China and India are trying to establish a measure of control over the Indian Ocean and a small island nation, the Maldives, is at the center of the tensions between the two.

Group trying to develop new list of 7 Wonders of the World, with natural twist

Environment

The New 7 Wonders group has a new, more natural list of Wonders of the World. Visiting them will take you from South America to Africa to Asia and introduce you to some of Mother Nature’s most breath-taking sites.

Climate conference promises non-binding

Environment

Nations big and small pledged money and action to combat climate change, but many question whether promises will be kept.