Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rebecca Cairns/CNN A ‘stateless’ community Despite living in the region for decades, even centuries, many of the Bajau Laut in Semporna are “stateless” and not considered Malaysian citizens. Adzmin Fatta, who works with many stateless people …
Nomad Tsering Angchuk promises to stay put in his remote village in India’s Ladakh region. “Most of it is due to heating shelters that can be easily replaced by non-carbon-based heating systems.” He said Ladakh today is “probably the densest militarised zone where the civilian-soldier ratio is 1:2”. “None of the other products gets as much revenue as what they …
KHARNAK, India — For decades, Konchok Dorjey grazed the world’s finest cashmere-producing goats in the arid, treeless Kharnak village in India’s Ladakh region, a high mountainous cold desert that borders China and Pakistan. ___ Konchok Dorjey walks toward a room in his home where his daughter Rigzen Angmo reads in Kharnakling near Leh town in the cold desert region of …
The nomads of Butte County must hide or keep moving — scope out a little wooded draw to park a trailer unnoticed, head down the mountain to rotate between driveways in Chico, or bivouac in tents deep in the Cascade foothills. “I feel like a failure as a mother that my daughter doesn’t have basic needs.” The Camp fire most …