by pennyurquhart | Mar 11, 2026 | Africa, climate change, extreme events, Uncategorized
It feels like I am sitting in a marble cake of swirling temperatures. As the wind swings from landward to seaward and back again, I have the curious experience of having a front that is cooled while my back warms up – like a lizard swaying through moist grass on a...
by pennyurquhart | Feb 21, 2024 | extreme events, Uncategorized
High summer is fire season in South Africa’s Western Cape province. Nothing strange about that – the vegetation is dry, the winter rains long gone, and, well, that’s the way the spectacular fynbos likes it. Mountain fynbos on the Cape Peninsula. Source: By S...
by pennyurquhart | Jul 26, 2018 | climate change, climate conversations, environment, Uncategorized
Part 2 of my conversation on climate with Ani Tsondru, Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, continues her story after she had spent more than seven years in closed retreat in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Spain. Tsondru describes how the lack of a supportive...
by pennyurquhart | Sep 21, 2014 | climate justice, UNSecretary General's Climate Summit
It was a balmy 23 in leafy Oranjezicht, perfect weather for the #PeoplesClimate march, part of the global actions leading up to the UN Secretary General’s Climate Summit in New York City on Tuesday. Lots going on in Cape Town today – the Open Book...
by pennyurquhart | Apr 6, 2014 | adaptation, climate change, food security and climate change
The recently released report of the IPCC’s Working Group II on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation, of which I was an author, makes it quite clear that impacts from climate change are already being felt in all regions of the world. Taken together with the...
