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• My homeland is disappearing: Ursula’s message to Cancun
  Ursula Rakova from the Carteret Islands is in Cancun for the climate change talks. She’s hoping to bring home to world leaders the painful reality of climate change for those living on the frontline. -- December 2010
• Pacific Islands are being 'hung out to dry' -- November 2009
  Our Pacific neighbours are on the front line of climate change. Many of the Pacific Islands are extremely low-lying, and are particularly at risk from rising sea levels and tidal surges.
• Uganda: The human cost of climate change -- July 2009
  The recent droughts and seasonal changes in Uganda have created a living hell for pastoralists in Kotido, one of the five districts of the Karamoja region.
• Let there be light -- January 2009
  Oxfam is helping rural communities in East Timor to develop bio-gas as a low-cost, renewable energy source to light their homes.
• Power of the Ocean -- December 2008
  School teacher Tangaroa Arobati lives on Tarawa atoll, on the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati. Tangaroa has a deep respect for the ocean - as a teenager he was lost at sea for almost one month. But now his concerns about the ocean focus on climate change and sea level rise. With most land areas only a few metres above sea level, adaptation to climate change is a central challenge for his country’s future.
• Climate change stories from around the globe.
  Check out this interactive climate orb and discover how people from around the world are helping to fight climate change. (This link will take you to the Oxfam Great Britain website)
• The Pacific islands are feeling our heat -- November 2007
  Climate change is causing unpredictable weather patterns, altering the growing seasons of coffee and other crops. In Papua New Guinea, Oxfam is helping communities adapt to climate change by teaching crop diversity and emergency preparedness.
• Waiting for the cyclone -- September 2007
  Living at the cyclone-prone western tip of Samoa, people are taking steps to prepare for the next cyclone whenever it comes as, sooner or later, it surely will.
• The Footprint on Funafuti -- July 2007
  Tuvalu is best known globally as one of the low lying, small island developing states most gravely threatened by climate change and particularly sea level rise. The damage caused is usually not spectacular—rather, it creeps, nibbles and debilitates, amplifying human-caused assaults. Photographer Jocelyn Carlin traveled to Tuvalu to document the changing environment and impacts on its people.
• Waiting for dry ground in Bangladesh -- June 2007
  Laila Begum lives on a silt bank in Bangladesh’s giant Jamuna River. She moved to this particular bank in 1998 when she lost her previous home in a great flood. The silt bank is constantly eroding so her family is forced to move their home around it. So far she has uprooted and moved her home 25 times.