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A charity has created a striking portrait in the sand on Whitby Beach showing a child carrying water on dry, cracked ground next to the rising tide, to highlight the impact climate change is having on people’s access to water.   Author, TV chef and ambassador Nadiya Hussain MBE is supporting WaterAid’s call to ensure families everywhere have clean water, improving children’s health and education and helping them protect themselves from the impact of climate change.  WaterAid’s 60-metre wide artwork was supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery, ahead of World Water D...

Last modified on Tue 16 Mar 2021 14.51 EDT Boris Johnson put the global climate crisis at the heart of the UK’s foreign policy on Tuesday, setting out his vision of “global Britain” after a government review placed climate as “the UK’s foremost international priority”. The prime minister told MPs: “We will host Cop26 [climate summit] in Glasgow in November, and rally as many nations as possible behind the target of net zero [greenhouse gas emissions] by 2050, leading by example since the UK was the first major economy to accept this obligation in law.” However, green campaigne...

Submitting... For most of these communities, climate change is experienced through water – too much or too little. Thanks to its expertise in climate change and water, as host nation of the crucial global climate conference, COP26, Scotland has an opportunity to show global leadership in 2021. Together we can help amplify the voices of those living with the consequences of climate change who are too often forgotten at international political get-togethers. For millions of people across the world, the climate emergency is already here. It is unravelling development progress for the worlds mo...

Climate crisis means water crisis for many of the world’s poorest countries - Tim Wainwright Type ‘climate change images’ into a popular internet search engine and you would be forgiven for believing that it was all about polar bears and empty barren landscapes. Further down the page of search results, people start to appear, white-skinned and usually pointing at the horizon. The real impact of climate change on the world’s poorest people is hidden from the headlines, a daily grind to survive and thrive against changing weather patterns, punctuated with more frequent catastrophes such...

Songhoy Blues named ambassadors for the international charity The incredible photos and film shot at the studio of critically-acclaimed photographer Malick Sidibé WATERAID HAVE announced that popular Malian desert blues music group, Songhoy Blues, have become ambassadors for the international charity. Despite its challenges, we are passionate about Africa and its immense potential, that’s why raising money for Future on Tap is important to us Aliou Touré The band, who formed in 2012 after being forced from their homes in northern Mali during civil conflict, have been supporters of the ch...