News stories by Lindsay Cobb

SILVER SPRING, Maryland, USA, Feb 28 (IPS) - Souylemane Samb sits under a crowded tent on a hot Senegalese day. He wears a canvas vest with Trees for the Future printed across the back.

SILVER SPRINGS, Maryland, Jan 13 (IPS) - "Unprecedented." "Hell on Earth." "Catastrophic."

In Australia, these terms are being used to describe 17.9 million acres of burned land so far. While fires of this magnitude are certainly unprecedented, they're far from unexpected.