Maldives

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The world kept warming in 2022. Is the 1.5-degree Celsius target within reach?

Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is the most-repeated goal in the fight against climate change. But as each new year is among recorded history’s hottest, is it still a viable one? 

The world kept warming in 2022. Is the 1.5-degree Celsius target within reach?
A crowd of people fill a street waiting on line to vote in Sri Lanka

Maldives extends voting in tense presidential election

Maldives extends voting in tense presidential election
Former Maldives deputy UN ambassador Thilmeeza Hussain at the global climate conference in Paris in December, 2015, just before the adoption of the landmark Paris Agreement. With a suddenly very different political environment in the US, Hussain says clim

World climate activists to US: Please don't be a 'rogue state' under Trump

World climate activists to US: Please don't be a 'rogue state' under Trump
An immigrant laborer working in a landfill on Thilafushi, the island used for waste disposal in the Maldives.

An island of toxic trash plagues the Maldives

An island of toxic trash plagues the Maldives

First Days: South Asian Americans share stories of first days in America

First Days: South Asian Americans share stories of first days in America

Mohamed Nasheed and Jon Shenk on the State of the Maldives

Mohamed Nasheed and Jon Shenk on the State of the Maldives

Former Maldives President Calls for New Elections

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC's Andrew North about the latest developments from the Maldives.

Former Maldives President Calls for New Elections

VIDEO: In the Maldives, president claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint

Riots raged in the Maldives recently, as people upset over the arrest of a popular judge tried to make their voice heard. Depending on who you ask, it worked. The nation's president resigned -- but he now says he did so at gunpoint in what amounts to a coup.

VIDEO: In the Maldives, president claims he was forced to resign at gunpoint

Climate-Crusading Maldives President Resigns

Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed has resigned after weeks of unrest. Host Marco Werman reports on the sudden resignation of a leader who had been a vociferous campaigner for action on climate change.

Climate-Crusading Maldives President Resigns

Maldives working to be carbon-neutral by 2020

About two years ago, the Maldives announced the nation would be carbon-neutral by 2020. That's a tall order for a country that spends 15 percent of GDP on diesel fuel, but work is progressing toward that goal.

Maldives working to be carbon-neutral by 2020

Maldives Looking At 'Carbon Neutrality' by 2020

The government of the Maldives plans to make the Indian Ocean island nation "carbon neutral" by 2020. It's an effort to set an example for other countries and help avert the possible inundation of much of the country in the face of rising sea levels.

Maldives Looking At 'Carbon Neutrality' by 2020

In the island nation of the Maldives, China and India trying to assert themselves

China and India are trying to establish a measure of control over the Indian Ocean and a small island nation, the Maldives, is at the center of the tensions between the two.

In the island nation of the Maldives, China and India trying to assert themselves

Even in the Maldives, Climate Change Seems a Remote Threat for Many

The Maldives is one of the countries most imminently threatened by rising seas from climate change. But as Lily Jamali reports, even many people in the tiny Indian Ocean nation don't sense a real threat to their lives and livelihoods.

Even in the Maldives, Climate Change Seems a Remote Threat for Many

Group trying to develop new list of 7 Wonders of the World, with natural twist

The New 7 Wonders group has a new, more natural list of Wonders of the World. Visiting them will take you from South America to Africa to Asia and introduce you to some of Mother Nature's most breath-taking sites.

Group trying to develop new list of 7 Wonders of the World, with natural twist

Uncertain Future for Asian Island Nation

The Maldives are only about five feet above sea level, so there's big concern the islands' days ware will become inundated as sea levels rise in the coming century.

Uncertain Future for Asian Island Nation