CBU Media Awards Winner-Paramaribo versus water: The effects of climate change on Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname

CBU Media Awards Winner-Paramaribo versus water: The effects of climate change on Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname

This article was written with support from Climate Tracker’s Climate Justice Journalism Fellowship. In the book Waterjager, author Chris Polanen paints a gloomy picture where the capital of Suriname, Paramaribo, is underwater. The streets have turned into creeks. The flats are completely under the water and the houses on stilts...

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CBU Media Awards Winner-‘Some of these classrooms are furnaces!’

CBU Media Awards Winner-‘Some of these classrooms are furnaces!’

Schools taking steps to reduce heat stress on students as temperatures continue to rise AN OCCASIONAL whiff of breeze from the nearby sea does little to ease the sweltering heat that blankets the Donald Quarrie High School in east Kingston. With almost no trees to provide shelter from the sun’s...

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