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Room 11 - People and Their Stories

Here are 5 stories of 'ordinary' people, mainly women, who not only recovered from extreme climate disaster but took positive steps to improve their future prospects. They demonstrate resilience in many ways, sometimes with external assistance, abandoning approaches that no longer work, finding alternative livelihoods, engaging with local communities, and helping others to make similar changes.These accounts go beyond basic disaster recovery and show how people and communities can use their own knowledge and ingenuity to successfully respond and adapt to environmental change.

  • Indigenous women lead a firefighting brigade in Brazil's Cerrado
    Fire risk is growing and indigenous territories are vulnerable. In 2018 a fire burned across vast areas of Santana Indigenous Territory. The local Bakairi people waited for help that came too late so they created a volunteer fire brigade, largely composed of indigenous women of all ages.

  • Abi and Steve Churchley's Home Fooded Twice in Recent Years!
    They're still repairing the damage but have turned their experience into action creating a website and support network to help others to adapt, rebuild and stay hopeful as climate change reshapes life in their neighbourhood.

  • Grandmother Faced up to the Climate Crisis
    Beatrice, from Malawi faced up to drought to feed her family and provide for her grandchildren's future by finding more effective ways to farm. "Yes, I have known hunger. I am not educated so I can't tell you how long it has been. But it has been a long struggle."

  • A Tale of Resilience in Zambia's Changing Climate
    Lesi is a single mother of 5 and is deaf. Life was hard until she trained in goat management, diversification, and financial literacy. The maize on her patch of land was hit by drought and her children had suffered from poor nutrition and no schooling. Now she says, "With the goats and garden, I'm able to afford three meals a day and pay for my children school fees."

  • Picking up the Pieces after Typhoon Sinlaku
    Residents of the Northern Mariana Islands are used to tropical cyclones but climate change is supercharging storms. Chelsy Reyes says "We lost everything, but the most important thing is we didn't lose each other." Many residents and others, relying on community and shared values, are helping to move forward.

Many more of us are now subject to extreme climate events in some form. Help may not be at hand when climate disaster strikes so be prepared! With a positive outlook and community help you too can recover from disaster.

Eco-anxiety? This a real, natural and a perfectly healthy human reaction. Accepting and managing the feelings that come with it can pose problems but there's plenty help and support available.

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Finding Steady Ground on a Glacier still Standing: A Letter from Aotearoa
By Adam Currie, 2026-09-12

ACCIDENTAL GODS
The Stewardship Freehold Village – an idea whose time has come – with Michael Taite
By everydaywild, 2026-09-15

A New Earth Dawning: Biological Elegance, the health of humanity and OriginEarth with Zach Bush, MD
By Naomi Adams, 2026-10-12

BBC News
Turning the tides: Could hidden sea power energise our coastal towns?
2026-10-18

The people on standby when a storm strikes
2026-10-24

Conservation news
Indigenous leader Raoni receives palliative care in Brazil after cancer diagnosis
By Associated Press Mongabay Editor, 2026-09-15

Britain’s Prince William reveals finalists for Earthshot environmental prize
By Associated Press Mongabay Editor, 2026-09-18

Honoring Jane Goodall’s conservation legacy and combatting misinformation
By Mongabay.com Naina Rao, 2026-09-22

In Nepal, women seek ownership rights to the lands they tend
By Haven Sager Karen Coates, 2026-09-24

Giraldo Alayón García, Cuba’s ‘spider man,’ died on Sept. 24
By Rhett Ayers Butler Shreya Dasgupta, 2026-10-01

From ‘community-based’ to ‘community-led conservation’ in Kenya: Interview with Dickson Kaelo
By David Akana Malavikavyawahare, 2026-10-01

A year ago today, Jane Goodall died at 91. Her message is more important than ever
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2026-10-01

Women shoulder the burden of expanding wildfires in rural India
By Mongabay.com Naina Rao, 2026-10-02

The Indonesians facing El Nino’s fires have lessons to teach us (commentary)
By Akane Nishimura Erik Hoffner, 2026-10-06

Indigenous activist Kynan Tegar on Indonesia’s fires, and defending the Earth
By Basten GokkonMike DiGirolamo Mikedigirolamo, 2026-10-06

How much nature is left? Interview with Nature Data Lab’s Karl Burkart
By Abhishyant Kidangoor Abhishyantkidangoor, 2026-10-09

The uplifting story of one of Zimbabwe’s pioneering women rangers
By David Akana Karen Coates, 2026-10-16

Water, carbon & the ‘tree of life’: Interview with Venezuela’s guardian of morichales
By Diego Ávila Muskus Karen Coates, 2026-10-22

Two Indigenous Brazilians denied their language interpreter at election voting booth
By Shanna Hanbury Bobbybascomb, 2026-10-23

Mozambique safari operator wins conservation award at COP17
By David Akana Bobbybascomb, 2026-10-23

Botswana honors 97-year-old who fought eviction of Indigenous people in Kalahari
By David Akana Bobbybascomb, 2026-10-27

Photographer Tom Hegen’s aerial eye reveals the true scale of the critical mineral age
By Carolyn Cowan Isabel Esterman, 2026-10-28

Philippine village uses nature to defend against floods with bamboo, shells and husks
By Oliver Samson Yenni Kwok, 2026-10-30

Given a chance, women-led microenterprises uplift Nepali communities & conservation
By Emma White Karen Coates, 2026-10-30

The women who won’t let go: Female-led resistance to development harms across Asia
By Kannikar Petchkaew Isabel Esterman, 2026-10-30

Environment | The Guardian
‘It’s my duty to tell the truth’: UN chief on the climate crisis, capitalism and reasons to be hopeful
By Fiona Harvey Environment editor, 2026-09-22

‘A real-life moment from The Castle’: the retired Australian couple who took on a coal giant and won
By Lisa Cox Environment and climate correspondent, 2026-10-07

I work for a major insurer. Much of my industry is fudging the numbers in the face of the climate crisis | Anonymous
By Anonymous, 2026-10-14

‘You need persistence’: the Norfolk couple who took on environmental regulators three times – and won
By Patrick Barkham, 2026-10-24

Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam
EHC Welcomes Three New PhD Candidates
By jelmer, 2026-09-16

Fairventures Worldwide
Moses Mumbere : Growing a Future with Agroforestry in Bwera
By Kezia Weikinger, 2026-10-13

Greenpeace International
11 Greenpeace activists face unprecedented 5-year punishment in Spain for peaceful climate action
By Greenpeace International, 2026-09-23

Sagunto 11 acquitted: Spanish court rejects prosecution bid to criminalise peaceful protest
By Greenpeace International, 2026-10-06

Happy Eco News
How Restoring Nature Helped Shape Three Future Conservationists
By Grassroots Ecology, 2026-09-23

Take Action Global Brings Climate Education for Students Across 183 Countries
By Mariz Guiniawan, 2026-09-30

Inside Climate News
Breached Earth Boundaries Raise Risk of ‘Irreversible Change’
By Bob Berwyn, 2026-09-21

Learning how Land Speaks
From almost nothing, a River: The story of an ecological pilgrimage along an Italian river, from mouth to source
By Peter Reason, 2026-09-28

Natural Building Blog
A Couple Build a Cob House in Texas
By Kelly Hart, 2026-09-10

Student Dedicated to Sustainable Building
By Kelly Hart, 2026-09-28

The Women’s Natural Building Collective in Portugal
By Kelly Hart, 2026-10-08

Planet Forward
Green Labs helps sustainability pay off at the University of Georgia
By Marley Hinrichs, 2026-10-23

Skeptical Science
As El Niño fuels drought in Panama, trees help ranchers maintain their water supply
2026-10-21

State of the Planet
Lamont Researchers Receive Major Earth Science Honors from the American Geophysical Union
By Guest, 2026-10-08

Two Lamont Scientists Celebrate Marie Tharp’s Hall of Fame Induction—and Carry Her Legacy Forward
By Olga Rukovets, 2026-10-27

This is Not Cool
Column: El Niño Giving a Glimpse of the Future
By greenman3610, 2026-10-27

Unthinkable
He Quit His Job to Build a University for the Climate Crisis
By Britt Wray, 2026-09-30

Yale Climate Connections
We need to rethink how we talk about climate change
By Michael Svoboda, 2026-09-25

What happens when climate despair turns into action?
By YCC Team, 2026-10-06

‘Weather under Fire’: The climate change film we’ve been waiting for
By Jeff Masters, 2026-10-15

The story of how big business began shaping our understanding of reality
By Michael Svoboda, 2026-10-12

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