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Jennifer Collins

Hi there, I'm a Berlin-based multimedia journalist with more than a decade's experience. I specalise in climate and environment reporting, as well as German and European politics and culture. I mainly work for DW, Germany's international broadcaster. My reporting has also appeared in outlets such USA Today, NPR Berlin, El Pais, The Globe and Mail, and Religious News Service. I'm available for studio talks, radio and online commissions.

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Is climate activism too tame? – DW – 06/17/2022

With less than 10 years left to avert climate catastrophe, campaigners Kumi Naidoo and Luisa Neubauer say activists need to ramp up civil disobedience.

Kumi Naidoo is the former head of Greenpeace. Luisa Neubauer is one of the founders of Germany's Fridays for Future climate movement. But Naidoo and Neubauer's entry into activism couldn't have been more different.

Now in his late 50s, Naidoo joined the anti-apartheid movement as a 15-year-old in Durban, which got him expelled, arrested, and ul
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Why civil rights and protecting the planet go hand-in-hand – DW – 09/15/2021

When environmental disasters strike, those already discriminated against can be hit hardest. But marginalized communities can also set a model for resilience.

As the global ecological crisis impacts ever-more lives, it is becoming clearer that we cannot talk about cimate change, pollution or biodiversity loss without talking about inequality — whether that's determined by gender, race, class, sexual orientation or disability.

As Thenjiwe McHarris, a leading Black Lives Matter activist and co-f
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Afghanistan's impending climate disaster – DW – 08/30/2021

The past 30 years have brought flood, drought and hunger to Afghanistan. With the Taliban sweeping to power, many within and outside of the country wonder how to deal with looming climate disaster.

Forty years of conflict have left many Afghans on the edge of survival — and highly susceptible to the impacts of climate change. Not only is the landlocked country already becoming drier and drier, but it's also just been thrown into more political uncertainty by the Taliban takeover. Experts say it
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A water crisis: How climate change affects our health

In his 12 years on earth, Philtino Ties has only ever known drought. Rain is rare in his home in the Karoo, a semidesert in South Africa. Dams, rivers and boreholes have dried up. Thousands of kilometers away, in the northern Indian state of Bihar, 13-year-old Shivday Kumari regularly witnesses the flash floods that now go hand in hand with monsoon season. Global heating plays a major role in both the drought in the Karoo and flooding in Bihar. And those weather events have an impact on Philtino
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A German village goes it alone on climate protection – DW – 04/20/2019

In Germany, villages and towns are leading the pack in the climate change fight. One motivated mayor has set up a store stocked with regional produce to help cut emissions. But going local isn't as easy as it sounds.

The local grocery store in Grafenaschau looks like most other buildings in the tiny Bavarian village. It has a large pitched roof with broad eaves and is half timber, half stone. The style is as typical as lederhosen, wheat beer and white sausage in this particular part of Germany.
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Climate change alters the Bavarian Alps – DW – 11/06/2018

Germany's Alps are already contending with climate change and locals are feeling the effects. Jennifer Collins reports from the country's highest peak on disappearing glaciers, less snowfall and increased landslides.

It's unseasonably warm on Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze. Thirty years ago, September would have brought freezing temperatures and the first snow flurries. Today, tourists explore the bare, snowless, moon-like rockscape in T-shirts and shorts.

A lot has changed on the m