News pages on CASwiki/News sections in development

Universal basic services

• A Holistic Approach to Health Care Is Helping to Keep Rural North Carolinians Housed, reasonstobecheerful.world (Feb 20, 2025)
• Public luxury for the everyday citizens of Mexico City—with “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada, Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2024) — "brilliant example of collective amenity and a public infrastructure of care", David Madden

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)

Community wealth building

• Community land trusts: Building a different kind of wealth, thenews.coop (Feb 03, 2026) — How the model is protecting US neighbourhoods from property speculation and gentrification
• Growing Community Wealth with Sarafu.Network: My Story, grassecon.substack.com (May 25, 2025)

Urban rural connections

• The biggest climate migration problem may be that there’s not enough of it, grist.org (Jan 05, 2026)
• Indigenous communities in the Philippines restore a mountain forest to prevent urban flooding, news.mongabay.com (Jan 20, 2025)
• "Nepal convenes the world system. There is no omniscient narrator, no possible third person." A report on the latest World Social Forum, Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2024)

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)

Gender equality

• How one Kenyan community is building a new future on reclaimed ground, globalvoices.org (May 14, 2026)
• Kenyan women defy fishing taboos as climate change threatens Lake Victoria, aljazeera.com (Apr 20, 2026)
• The Cambodian women rising up to protect their communal land, positive.news (Nov 20, 2025)
• Protecting the island farms traditionally inherited by men, women in Mexico step up, news.mongabay.com (Oct 08, 2025)
• An Indigenous nation in Canada hails historic constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves’, theguardian.com (Jun 12, 2025)
• Women aren’t 14 times more likely to die in disasters – inequality is the real killer, climatechangenews.com (May 29, 2025)
• In India, Indigenous women and their ‘dream maps’ seek to protect lands from climate change, apnews.com (May 15, 2025)
• Women Plumbers in Jordan Are Breaking Taboos, reasonstobecheerful.world (Apr 28, 2025)
• Co-ops and resistance in Rojava, thenews.coop (Apr 26, 2025)
• The local women saving Yucatán’s mangroves, ‘It has been worth it’, news.mongabay.com (Apr 25, 2025)
• The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business, theguardian.com (Mar 11, 2025)
• Five ways that illustrations can tell climate justice stories, theconversation.com (Feb 11, 2025)
• Women-led reforestation initiative in Uganda fights flooding, erosion, Innocent Kiiza, news.mongabay.com (Jan 23, 2025)
• ‘Solar Mamas empower our people by giving them electricity’: the women lighting up Zanzibar, theguardian.com (Jan 15, 2025)
• The resilience of women farmers in Chad battling climate challenges and social barriers, news.mongabay.com (Aug 29, 2024)
• Labour investment in cycling and walking will be unprecedented, says Louise Haigh, theguardian.com (Aug 20, 2024)
• Unrest in Bangladesh reflects young people’s struggle to find decent work in the world’s poorest nations, theconversation.com (Aug 20, 2024)
• India's schoolgirls are leading a silent cycling revolution, BBC News (Aug 19, 2024)
• Women finding empowerment working with nature’s bounty in Brazil’s Pantanal, news.mongabay.com (Aug 08, 2024)
• Public luxury for the everyday citizens of Mexico City—with “100 Utopias” being built by new Mayor Clara Brugada, Daily Alternative (Jul 06, 2024) — "brilliant example of collective amenity and a public infrastructure of care", David Madden
• 'I want to erase my own footprint': The women looking after an island paradise, BBC News (Apr 21, 2024)
• Kuza Nia: Meeting your purpose, neighbourhooddemocracy.org (Oct 13, 2023)

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)

Care economy

• Climate finance and care services: why public investment is necessary, theconversation.com (Jan 29, 2025) — Quezon City in Manila, the Philippines, Renca in Santiago, Chile and Barcelona are cities that are beginning to consider how care systems can be incorporated in their climate adaptation response.

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)

Climate justice UK

• World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam, theguardian.com (Jan 10, 2026)
• ‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert, theguardian.com (Oct 13, 2025) — Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists
• Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion, theguardian.com (Mar 07, 2025) — People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
• Labour investment in cycling and walking will be unprecedented, says Louise Haigh, theguardian.com (Aug 20, 2024)
• Scottish oil-town plan for green jobs sparks climate campers’ anger over local park, climatechangenews.com (Jul 19, 2024)

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

Care economy UK

• Fixing social care: Report highlights potential of co-op model in the UK, thenews.coop (May 08, 2026) — Commissioned by Co-operatives UK and Cwmpas, the study found co-ops provide ‘fairer, better quality, community-rooted care’

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.

Sierra Leone news

• ‘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

• 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)