The composition of plankton in the oceans is changing as a result of global warming. Living marine organisms generally move towards the poles to remain under the same temperature conditions. And when fish, for example, leave the Equator the fish fauna erodes in warmer sea areas.
Professor Thomas Kiørboe, Centre for Ocean Life at DTU, studies marine ecosystems, their functions and ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. He works on clarifying the basic processes determining carbon cycling in the oceans, as it has a decisive impact on our climate.
Ndikumana Gervais is a fisherman in Bugesera, Rwanda. He supports his wife and three children with his income is of about 1500 Rwandan francs per day (about USD $1.73). While his life is hard, Gervais is working to improve his family’s future. He is raising a herd of goats, farms a plot of land, and belongs to a village savings club which allows him to take out small loans.
Awoke Mose is a smallholder farmer in Work Amba, Ethiopia who grows teff, wheat, chickpeas and maize. He, his wife, five children, and his mother all live the same one-hectare plot. He saves whatever money he can for his children’s education. His oldest daughter recently graduated from college.
