News pages on CASwiki/News sections in development
This page tracks news items for particular topics or locations to suggest possible news sections to topic or location based articles, or in some cases stand alone news articles. Suggested minimum number of items for a stand alone news page: 25-30 items.
Resources
[edit | edit source]Partnerships
Bolivia Indigenous communities, local gov’ts help protect nearly 1 million hectares, news.mongabay.com (Feb 06, 2026)
Right to manage a Brazilian state park celebrated by fishing community, news.mongabay.com (May 28, 2024)
Coordination
Toward a Common Grammar for Finance and Mutual Aid, willruddick.substack.com (Apr 21, 2026)
Reconciliation
The Winter’s Tale at The Tobacco Factory, Bristol – a marvellous production with much to say about the modern world, theconversation.com (Mar 18, 2025)
Migration
Home affairs select committee to hold “citizen-assembly style” events on immigration, committees.parliament.uk (Jan 19, 2026)
The biggest climate migration problem may be that there’s not enough of it, grist.org (Jan 05, 2026)

New news pages or sections
- Universal basic services now at Social inclusion#News
- Community wealth building now at Towards sustainable economies#News
- Gender equality now at A fairer, kinder society#News
- Urban rural connections now at Ecological restoration#Urban rural connections
- Justice news now at A fairer, kinder society
- Food security news now at Food activism#Community food security
- Local food news now at Food activism#Local and seasonal food
- Seed news, Food justice news, Agroforestry news now at Food activism#Seeds news
Topics
[edit | edit source]Resilience
In a new era of climate disaster, a tiny, resilient mountain village in New Mexico is teaching the world how to adapt, edition.cnn.com (Oct 01, 2025)
Hurricane blackouts: New Orleans' 'lighthouse' solution to keep the power on through floods and high winds, bbc.co.uk (Aug 07, 2024)
Ponds
Britain’s ponds are disappearing – here’s why restoring them is vital for wildlife and climate resilience, theconversation.com (Dec 01, 2025)
Farm ponds can act as greenhouse gas sinks in the Canadian Prairies, theconversation.com (May 06, 2019)
New news pages or sections
- Care economy now at Towards sustainable economies#News
- River news
- Oceans news included in Oceans, 14:34, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
UK
[edit | edit source]UK community centres
The roof over Lochaber: Community Wealth Building in Fort William, scottishcommunityalliance.org.uk (Dec 16, 2025)
The Community Centre in 2040 [New Local], Daily Alternative (May 05, 2025)
Shetland
“How do you build support for energy transition, through a scheme that structurally excludes the communities carrying the biggest burden?” [Voar], thealternative.org.uk (Feb 15, 2026)
How Shetland Turned Division into £72m of Community Benefit, scottishbeacon.com (Nov 19, 2025)
"Shetland is ideally placed to spearhead a green transition... commensurate with net zero aspirations" [Democracy Collaborative], Daily Alternative (Sep 06, 2025)
Legal challenge to Rosebank oil field given go-ahead, BBC News (Sep 25, 2024)
Orkney
More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project, theguardian.co (Apr 17, 2026)
‘Much fairer’: all profits from new Orkney windfarm to benefit locals, theguardian.com (Oct 21, 2025) — Construction due to begin in 2027 on what is expected to become UK’s largest publicly owned windfarm
additional entries in Scotland news and archives
New news pages or section
- Care economy UK now at Towards sustainable economies UK#Care economy news
- Climate justice UK now at Community climate action UK#Climate justice news
- UK Community with Council partnership news now at Community involvement UK#UK Community with Council partnership news
- Water and drought news UK
- Community Wealth building UK now at Towards sustainable economies UK#Community wealth building news
No longer used
- Ecorestoration UK, use more specific topics eg Biodiversity UK
Africa, Asia and Oceania news
[edit | edit source]Angola news
One of Africa’s Most Important Water Sources Just Got Some Very Good News, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 05, 2026) — Angola’s vast highland wetlands feed rivers that deliver freshwater to millions. They just gained global recognition that could help keep it that way.
Lesotho news
Young South Africans take up sustainable agriculture for food security, climatechangenews.com (Jun 02, 2026) — Aquaponics is seeing a revival in South Africa’s schools, boosted by government support and climate concerns
Sierra Leone news
How Farming on Crutches is creating community and opportunity for Sierra Leone’s amputees, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 24, 2026) — Megan Tatum talks to Mambud Samai, the pioneering founder of a farming programme for amputees that is rooted in sustainable growing
‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders, theguardian.com (Nov 07, 2025)
France, Spain among countries to agree to tax premium flyers, private jets, reuters.com (Jun 30, 2025)
Young beekeeper’s initiative brings hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities, news.mongabay.com (Mar 31, 2025)
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr - the tree-planting mayor of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, BBC News (Mar 04, 2024)
In Sierra Leone, post-civil war, you might live next to your amputator. Family talk (fambul tok) was a community resource for peace. It’s a lesson to our polarised societies, The Daily Alternative (Jun 02, 2023)
Beijing news
London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in air pollution, theguardian.com (Mar 12, 2026) — Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds, theguardian.com (Jan 22, 2026) — Beijing, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Delhi among those facing extreme stress, while London, Bangkok and Jakarta classed as being highly stressed
In numbers: How Beijing cleaned up its air, theprogressplaybook.com (May 12, 2025)
East Asia
Climate justice case study through Pakistan’s energy predicament: What China’s energy sector can and cannot do for the Global South, Qian Sun and Sonia Awale, globalvoices.org (Dec 10, 2025)
Maldives
Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepa, theconversation.com (Oct 08, 2025)
South Asia
Pakistan seeks justice for environmental harm through climate litigation, globalvoices.org (Jan 11, 2026)
Which countries people are fleeing from – and why, theconversation.com (Dec 17, 2025)
Climate justice case study through Pakistan’s energy predicament: What China’s energy sector can and cannot do for the Global South, Qian Sun and Sonia Awale, globalvoices.org (Dec 10, 2025)
Delhi news
Delhi plans to ban petrol rickshaws and scooters in effort to cut toxic fumes, theguardian.com (Jun 30, 2026) — Government hopes for 30% of city’s fleet to be electric by 2030, in move hailed as ‘gamechanger’ on air pollution
Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds, theguardian.com (Jan 22, 2026) — Beijing, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Delhi among those facing extreme stress, while London, Bangkok and Jakarta classed as being highly stressed
A class act: the therapy school for children raised in Delhi’s red light district, positive.news (Apr 15, 2024)
At ‘Garbage Cafes,’ You Can Trade Plastic Bottles for Free Food, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 05, 2024)
‘In Delhi I can see the climate catastrophe unfolding before my eyes’, The Guardian (Nov 15, 2022)
Delhi suffers at 49C as heatwave sweeps India, BBC News (May 16, 2022)
Karnataka news
Making light work: solar’s potential to lift rural Indians out of poverty, positive.news (Apr 30, 2025)
She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist, theguardian.com (Mar 03, 2024)
Assam news
Assam India: Where exchange has a home, grassecon.substack.com (Feb 16, 2026)
The Floating Health Clinics Delivering Care to Isolated Island Dwellers, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 31, 2023)
Bangkok news
Half the world’s 100 largest cities are in high water stress areas, analysis finds, theguardian.com (Jan 22, 2026) — Beijing, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Delhi among those facing extreme stress, while London, Bangkok and Jakarta classed as being highly stressed
Kazakhstan news
Cooperation and community saving saiga antelope in Kazakhstan, news.mongabay.com (Apr 15, 2025)
Wild horses return to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries, theguardian.com (Jun 10, 2024)
West Asia
The Syrian volunteers rebuilding their shattered schools, positive.news (Jan 12, 2026)
Which countries people are fleeing from – and why, theconversation.com (Dec 17, 2025)
‘I would give all my life for my brother to come back for one second’ This is climate breakdown. This is Bilal’s story, theguardian.com (Nov 10, 2025)
Syria news
Solidarity fields in Syria: Reviving local seed production, globalvoices.org (May 21, 2026) — A community garden on Damascus's edge is quietly rebuilding Syria's agricultural memory
The Syrian volunteers rebuilding their shattered schools, positive.news (Jan 12, 2026)
Co-ops and resistance in Rojava, thenews.coop (Apr 26, 2025)
New news pages or sections
- Oceania news at Community action/Australia#Oceania news
Europe news
[edit | edit source]Catalonia news
Europe needs affordable, low‑carbon homes – here’s how Barcelona is reimagining its housing system, theconversation.com (Apr 08, 2026)
Basque news
A housing commons for the Basque country - starting with bicycles and cars!, growingcommons.substack.com (Mar 29, 2026)
Zurich news
Could Zurich’s housing cooperatives be the solution to the rest of Europe’s housing crisis?, theguardian.com (Oct 23, 2025)
Greenland news
Surviving the Thaw: Greenland’s Inuit Grapple with Their Melting World, insideclimatenews.org (Apr 19, 2025)
How Greenland’s tourism industry lobbied for a green tax, and won, positive.news (Feb 20, 2024)
The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance now has 10 core members (Costa Rica, Denmark, France, Greenland, Ireland, Portugal, Quebec, Sweden, Wales, and Washington State), two associate members (California and New Zealand), and five "friends of BOGA" (Chile, Fiji, Finland, Italy, and Luxembourg)., beyondoilandgasalliance.org (Nov 16, 2022) — BOGA is an international alliance of governments and stakeholders working together to facilitate the managed phase-out of oil and gas production, led by the governments of Denmark and Costa Rica
included in Community action/Denmark
North America
[edit | edit source]New England news
New England Lawmakers Weigh Plug-in Solar as Europe’s Model Spreads, insideclimatenews.org (Feb 18, 2026) — Legislation in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island would allow small solar panels to plug directly into home outlets, expanding access to clean energy.
Where the wild things thrive: Finding and protecting nature’s climate change safe havens, theconversation.com (Dec 17, 2025)
New England warming faster than most places on Earth, study finds, theguardian.com (Dec 04, 2025)
included in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut
Latin America and the Caribbean
[edit | edit source]Venezuela news
Trash and dignity: The rise of inclusive recycling projects in Latin America, globalvoices.org (Jun 12, 2026)
Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds, theguardian.com (Nov 09, 2025) — Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger
Jamaica news
Jamaican beach access campaigners go to court to fight privatisation of coast, theguardian.com (Jun 14, 2026) — Activists challenge colonial-era law, demand ‘free, legal, unfettered, forever rights’ to use beaches. ‘We shouldn’t be forced to fight for what is already ours'
The Guardian view on worsening extreme weather: the injustice of the climate crisis grows ever clearer, Editorial, theguardian.com (Nov 07, 2025)
A Jamaican school’s ‘Green Generation’ wants more action, less talk, to save the planet, Global Voices (Jun 02, 2022) — 'For Small Island Developing States like Jamaica, climate change is a huge issue'
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| Cite as | Philralph (2024–2026). "News pages on CASwiki/News sections in development". Appropedia. Retrieved August 3, 2026. |