Unlike most border changes that often happen due to conflicts, there is no dispute between Italy and Switzerland over this shift. Switzerland and Italy redrew their shared border in the Alps last week, forced by melting glaciers that, along with vast snowfields, define large sect...

Speaking at a meeting of Pacific Island leaders in Tonga, Antonio Guterres warned the region was uniquely exposed. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued his latest climate SOS, calling on countries to Save Our Seas as he warned of a crisis of an unimaginabl...

In Pictures The ancient thanksgiving rituals of the Yadnya Kasada festival have been part of the lives of Indonesias Tenggerese people for centuries. Today, the increasingly unpredictable weather has made seeking divine blessings even more vital for this Hindu farming community. ...

Biggest survey of its kind polled 75,000, finding that majority want quick transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. Four in five people want their countries to ramp up efforts in the fight against climate change, according to a United Nations survey billed as the largest yet...

We have had more than 50 years of scientific data, economic arguments, books, petitions, documentaries, global resolutions. We know our planets ecosystem is breaking down...much of the destruction is irreparable. So, why havent things changed faster? My names Ali Rae and Im a jou...

Desperate climate scientists embrace civil disobedience and specialised therapy to deal with their growing anxiety over global warming. I was scared as hell. ... I remember feeling very nervous. On April 6, 2022, Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laborator...

In Pictures Aita Prasad Gurung dangles off a cliff in Nepal, carefully manipulating a long pole with a blade at its end to cut away chunks of honeycomb after Himalayan bees fled fumes from a fire set to drive them from their homes. The 40-year-old wear a white hat with a net cove...

Experts say climate change is expected to make incidents of turbulence worse for air travellers. Geoff Kitchen was on his way to a six-week holiday across South Asia and Australia with his wife Linda. Ten hours into the flight and in the middle of the breakfast service, Singapore...

World court rules countries must protect oceans by reducing fossil fuel emissions as island states fight for survival. Nine small island states have won a historic climate change case at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), which ruled that all signatories t...

San Miguel Centro Marankiari, Peru From high atop a treeless ridge, Tsitsiri Samaniego can see his ancestral homeland stretching towards the horizon. Samaniego, 40, is the leader of San Miguel Centro Marankiari, an Indigenous Ashaninka village cradled in the mountains of central...

Sweltering Earth endures 11-month warming streak as global air and sea surface temperatures soar. The world experienced its hottest April on record, continuing an 11-month streak of unprecedented high temperatures, the European Unions climate change monitoring service has said. E...

A new study has found climate change caused by fossil fuel emissions is the likely reason for the extreme weather events. Global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions most likely exacerbated the intense rains that lashed the UAE and Oman last week, causing deaths and widespread...

World Meteorological Organization says floods and storms were leading cause of casualties and economic losses as impact of heatwaves becomes more severe. Asia was the region most affected by climate change, weather and water-related hazards globally last year, the United Nations ...

We need to raise our voices and start taking precautions now. Twenty million people dead in a heatwave, some poached alive in a lake they hoped to cool off in. It is, for now, science fiction. Kim Stanley Robinsons apocalyptic novel, Ministry for the Future, starts in an Indian t...

Water resources under stress as economies and populations grow with 2.2 billion people lacking clean drinking water. Increasing global water scarcity is fuelling more conflicts and contributing to instability, the United Nations warns in a new report, which says access to clean w...

The World Meteorological Organization warns there is a high probability that 2024 will be another record-hot year. The United Nations weather agency is sounding a red alert about global warming, citing record-breaking increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temper...

Hundreds of thousands of lives and more than $1 trillion in losses are threatened unless urgent action is taken. Europe urgently needs stronger measures to respond to climate change risks, a new report has warned. The 32-paged assessment, published on Monday by the European Envir...

Global warming is exacerbating the spread of a disease that should have been consigned to the dust bin of history a long time ago. We need to take action now. In the 21st century, every case of and every death from cholera is preventable. Yet to this day, children around the worl...

EU monitors report comes as NASA launches climate satellite to survey oceans and atmosphere in never-before-seen detail. For the first time on record, global warming has exceeded temperatures of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over a 12-month period, European climate...

New report says climate change responsible for draining rivers, wreaking havoc on biodiversity and communities. Climate change, and not El Nino , was the primary driver of the unprecedented drought last year in the Amazon rainforest that caused rivers to dry up, required deliveri...

Copernicus Climate Change Service says 2023 very likely the warmest year in the past 100,000 years. Last year was the planets hottest on record by a significant margin and likely the worlds warmest in the past 100,000 years, the European Unions climate agency says. Scientists had...

The worlds top climate summit is a hoax, and it cant help us. There have been a total of 28 United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) on the climate crisis to date, but only the last one, convened earlier this month in the United Arab Emirates, has ever mentioned ending fossil f...

With the fossil fuels industry delaying transition, what are the real prospects for averting climate disaster? It was supposed to be a matter of life or death. So the recent spectacle of COP28 delegates quibbling over the wording of a final agreement calling on countries to trans...

Australias government struggles with climate contradictions as it commits to damaging fossil fuel projects. Australians are used to seeing messages with advice on preparing for bushfires and other extreme weather at this time of year. Amid the Christmas promotions, [were] seeing ...

Pacific islands are looking to tradition to help address the climate crisis that threatens their existence. Suva, Fiji From the Arctic to the Pacific, Indigenous communities have used unique design and building techniques for millennia to help them survive in some of the most ch...

Gazas water, soil and air have been devastated. And reconstruction will add to the carbon emissions. Many of the worlds leaders are gathered in Dubai for COP28, the annual United Nations summit on climate change. Some 2,400km (1,500 miles) to the West, meanwhile, Israels war on G...

From Pakistan to Paraguay, these campaigns are trying to bring out changes in communities at the front line of the climate crisis. From kings to presidents, CEOs to non-profit bosses, many of the worlds most influential individuals have gathered in Dubai for COP28, the latest edi...

Israels assault on Gaza resumes the day after the summit reaches an agreement over a long-sought rehabilitation fund. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged world leaders at the COP28 climate summit to plan for a future without fossil fuels, saying there was no other way...

The shocks from a relentless climate crisis have upended the lives of millions in Somalia and the Horn of Africa region. At a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Baidoa city in southwest Somalia, Halima Abdi, 57, walks through the flooded compound to access h...

UN warns world out of road for limiting warming to 1.5C ahead of COP28 meeting in Dubai. The worlds emissions-cutting pledges are nowhere near enough to curb the effects of climate change, with Earth on track for warming a potentially catastrophic 2.9C (5.2F) this century, the Un...

Leader of UNs meteorological agency says the world is still heading in the wrong direction and must cut use of fossil fuels. The United Nations says the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere surged to new highs last year as climate change fuelled extreme weather acr...

The worlds biggest polluters agree to work together on curbing methane and plastic pollution ahead of COP28 climate summit. China and the United States have agreed to resume stalled cooperation on the climate crisis, curbing methane and plastic pollution before this months crucia...

The Green Climate Fund was set up to help poorer countries cope with the devastating effects of climate change. Australia has announced it will rejoin the United Nations climate fund set up to help poorer countries deal with the challenges of a heating planet ahead of a key donor...

Marwan Bishara explains how and why the struggles for Palestinian liberation and climate justice became one and the same. The struggles for Palestinian liberation and climate justice have become intertwined, literally and figuratively, in philosophy as well as tangible consequenc...

Planting trees has been promoted as a method for addressing global warming, but could it do more harm than good? Bill Gates is emphatic. I dont plant trees, he declared recently, wading into a debate about whether mass tree planting is really much use in fighting climate change. ...

Energy ministers and climate leaders from around the world gather in Madrid before the next months climate summit. Spains Energy Minister Teresa Ribera has warned that talks at the COP28 climate summit will be challenging as she opened a gathering of energy ministers and climate ...

Record-breaking torrential rain leaves a trail of unprecedented devastation in northern Indias Himachal Pradesh state. Kaleshdhar, India Om Prakash, 42, was found alive in the debris of a collapsed house after a landslide triggered by relentless rain in this remote village of Hi...

Increasing heatwaves, floods and hurricanes in the West threaten to divert climate finance away from developing nations. The global investment and lending systems are on the verge of a climate-centric metamorphosis as the consequences of global warming on economies around the wor...

With a few exceptions, mainstream media groups still dont cover climate as they should. That must change. In much of what we see, hear, and read, the climate crisis has become inescapable. On Netflix, Dont Look Up spent weeks as the most-streamed movie ever. Pop star Billie Eilis...

Five oil majors are accused of downplaying the risks posed by fossil fuels since the 1950s, The New York Times reports. The US state of California has sued five oil giants for their alleged role in downplaying the risk posed by fossil fuels while causing tens of billions of dolla...

As volatile weather patterns continue, some communities are being forced to move to survive. Climate-induced catastrophes have devastating global effects, from intense heatwaves to heavy rainfall. In 2023, record-breaking heatwaves hit much of continental Europe and resulted in w...

UN human rights chief highlights environmental horror for many countries as fossil fuel projects continue unabated globally. Climate change is causing human rights emergencies around the world, the United Nations human rights chief says, specifically highlighting Iraqs spiralling...

Scientists blame ever warming human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas. Climate breakdown has begun, the United Nations chief has warned as the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported that the world went through its hottest Northern Hemis...

Vast expanse of the 54-nation continent is relatively unserved and unwarned with the least developed land-based weather observation network. The first Africa Climate Summit opens on Monday in Kenya to highlight the continent that will suffer the most from climate change while con...

Scientists say climate change has contributed to the intensity of hurricanes, driving higher winds and wetter storms. In less than a day this week, Hurricane Idalia strengthened from a Category 1 storm into a fierce Category 4, the second-highest tier for cyclones. It ultimately ...

As Pakistan finds itself in another unpredictable monsoon season, vulnerable farming communities face a resurgence of indentured servitude and other forms of modern slavery. This spring, I spent time with farming families across rural Sindh and the Kacchi Plains of Balochistan, t...

We urgently need a radical new framework to protect the fundamental rights of all human beings. Human rights, as we know them, are dead. Amid a climate emergency, seemingly endless conflict, and consequent refugee crises, the glaring absence of an effective global strategy to saf...

In Pictures HJM Seneviratne, 63, slices through yellowed paddy stems dried out by a drought that has destroyed over 95 percent of his crop and is threatening crisis-hit Sri Lankas summer rice harvest. The islands economy was crushed last year by its worst financial crisis in over...

Beijings heavy reliance on coal plants has cast a shadow over the global efforts to tackle climate change. Taipei, Taiwan More than any other country, China holds the power to make or break global efforts to prevent a climate catastrophe. The worlds second-largest economy is the...

Gina Raimondo is latest US official to visit China as part of efforts to ease tensions between the two economies. The United States wants to work with China to ensure a more predictable environment for US businesses in Shanghai, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has told officials...

Low water levels caused by drought are forcing restrictions on number of ships allowed to transit. Some 150 vessels are stuck waiting to pass through the Panama Canal, one of the worlds most important shipping routes The growing backlog comes after months of drought in Central Am...

The fire that began near the city of Alexandroupolis quickly spread across the Evros region, killing at least 20 people. A forest blaze in Greece is the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU and the bloc is mobilising nearly half its firefighting air wing to tackle it, a Europ...

From Indian rice to Australian wheat, climate change is hitting yields, adding to food shortages and price spikes caused by the war in Ukraine. But theres a way around it, analysts say. When India halted the exports of non-basmati white rice in late July to control soaring prices...

A significant change in action is under way to compensate nations under direct assault from climate chaos, observers say. Climate negotiators representing two dozen countries will hold meetings on Tuesday to iron out details of the United Nations loss and damage fund , created la...

The nation is where the climate crisis, the refugee crisis and the inequalities of capitalism intersect. The Panama Canal is in dire straits. A severe drought is impeding navigation of the United States-dominated trade artery that bisects the isthmus of Panama in Central America....

As climate change makes extreme temperatures more frequent, many US prisons lack resources to address safety needs. Los Angeles, California For 20 years, Michael Saavedra was imprisoned in solitary confinement . Over that time, he was transferred from one prison to another, but ...

A look at how ancient Romans coped with hot weather and how global warming has affected modern-day culture. Through the centuries, Rome has survived extreme weather and natural disasters from earthquakes and fires, to floods and heatwaves. Scientists believe ancient Rome faced n...

Prominent senator says she does not believe the proposal will address the longstanding issues facing Aboriginal people. Australian senator Lidia Thorpe has said the countrys planned referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament should be called off because it is just window dre...

In Pictures Hundreds of people have been evacuated and rescuers continue searching for people feared missing in floods and landslides that have killed at least 60 in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, including 11 who died in the collapse of a popular temple. More than 800 peo...

Indias decision to ban exports of some rice was based on domestic reasons, but its had a global impact. Last month, three days after Russia pulled out of the Black Sea grain deal , India imposed a ban on July 20 on the export of non-basmati white rice. The move followed a ban on ...

Death toll on Maui island approaches 100, with US President Joe Biden saying he will visit Hawaii as soon as possible. The search for missing people continues in Hawaii one week after devastating blazes erupted on the island of Maui, causing widespread devastation. Maui County ha...

Far-right candidate Javier Mileis strong showing raises questions about his appeal amid crises facing the country. Buenos Aires, Argentina Argentinas open presidential primaries are often criticised as a waste of money and time, but this week they gave the economically strugglin...

Some residents refuse to vacate towns burned down to the ground, citing fear that they will not be able to return. As the death toll from the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century ticks towards 100 on the Hawaiian island of Maui , anger is growing among residents who say g...

In a first-of-its-kind trial, US youth accuse Montana of violating their rights through lax environmental policies. A federal judge in the United States has sided with youth activists who accuse Montana state agencies of violating their constitutional rights to a clean and health...

At least 96 people are reported dead, but US officials predict toll will mount as search efforts continue. The governor of Hawaii has warned that the death toll from massive wildfires in the US archipelago state is expected to mount considerably in the coming days as rescuers con...

Days of downpours wash away vehicles, demolish buildings and destroy bridges in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods and landslides in Indias Himalayan region, killing at least 41 people and trapping many others. Days of downpours have washe...

A recent meeting in Doha shows that a major barrier to cooperation between the US and the Taliban may have been surmounted. Since the Taliban took over Kabul in 2021, the United States has struggled to make progress in talks with the group. A common complaint among Afghanistan ob...

Resort town of Lahaina, home to more than 12,000, reduced to ruins by horrific inferno that swept through the US island. People in the Hawaiian resort town ravaged by a horrific inferno have expressed anger as the death toll from the wildfires rose to 93 on Saturday, making it of...

US President told political fundraiser that China was in trouble due to internal economic and social tensions. US President Joe Bidens comment about China being a ticking time bomb referred to internal economic and social tensions that could have an effect on how Beijing interact...

In his book, The Heat Will Kill You First, author Jeff Goodall documents the changes happening as the planet heats up. With wildfires and relentless heatwaves, 2023 is on track to become the hottest year on record. But temperatures have been rising for years, and journalist Jeff ...

Twelve countries, representing the Amazon, Congo Basin and Southeast Asia, join pact for rainforest funding. Twelve countries have called on wealthy nations to meet their climate funding obligations on the final day of the Amazon Summit in Belem, Brazil. Wednesdays pact , called ...

Nations gathered in Belem agree to a list of environmental policies but fall short on deforestation and oil. The leaders of eight South American nations that are home to the Amazon have met at a two-day summit ending on Wednesday in the Brazilian city of Belem, with the task of a...

Global average temperature for July confirmed to be highest on record of any month, says Copernicus Climate Change Service. July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth with abnormally high temperatures recorded on both land and sea, the European Unions climate observatory c...

This years sea ice minimum is 20 percent lower than the average over the last 40 years, researchers say. Sea ice in the Antarctic region fell to a record low this year as a result of rising global temperatures and there is no quick fix to reverse the damage done, according to a n...

Scientists work to develop fusion reaction as they look for limitless clean and safe source of power to help curb climate change. Scientists in the United States have achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time since December in efforts to find a clean sourc...

Ahead of Biodiversity COP16, governments have to show courage in making decisions that benefit the whole of humanity rather than a select group of corporations. A simple cottage stands in the Norwegian mountains, about four hours north of Oslo. Electricity is supplied by a solar ...

Torrential rains cause flooding that affect two-thirds of the country as Prime Minister Robert Golob calls it the biggest natural disaster in its history. Slovenia has faced the biggest natural disaster in its history, Prime Minister Robert Golob said on Saturday, after devastati...

In Pictures Devastating floods triggered by torrential rains have caused the death of at least three people in Slovenia, with estimated damage of 500 million euros ($550m). Prime Minister Robert Golob said on Saturday that floods on Thursday and Friday were the biggest natural di...

Higher temperatures combine with Iraqs other problems such as a rapidly increasing population and lower river levels to create a perfect storm. Extreme temperatures and a lack of electrical power are a deadly combination, and one that is being felt across Iraq. The country is o...

The average ocean temperature has beat seasonal records since April of this year. The worlds oceans have set a new temperature record with the potential to threaten Earths climate, marine life and coastal communities. The temperature of the oceans surface hit 20.96 degrees Celsiu...

In Pictures Vast gaps in the forest canopy are visible from above Romanias Carpathian mountains, while stumps studding the ground are reminders of the trees chopped into logs and piled beside dirt roads. Forest engineer Gabriel Oltean has fought against this intense, often illega...

The statement by Italy, Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Malta and Portugal comes after heatwaves, wildfires and flooding. Italys president and his counterparts in five European countries have demanded urgent moves to tackle the climate crisis after scorching heatwaves, wildfires and f...

Across the Amazon, Indigenous residents are developing sustainable economies centred on local production. This article was supported by the Pulitzer Centers Rainforest Journalism Fund. Boa Vista, Brazil Under the scorching late-morning Amazon sun, dozens of people begin to appro...

In Pictures Firefighters in the United States have managed to partially contain a massive wildfire that sparked in Californias Mojave National Preserve, sending spiralling flames across the desert landscape. On Tuesday, the so-called York Fire had reached 23-percent containment a...

Official permission is required for protests in the Gulf nation, which is hosting UN climate talks this year. The United Arab Emirates has said it will allow environmental activists to make their voices heard and peacefully assemble at this years UN climate talks. The announcemen...

July 2023 has broken global temperature records, raising fears about what patterns could next emerge. July will likely be the worlds hottest month on record and possibly the warmest in 120,000 years, according to climate scientists. We dont have to wait for the end of the month t...

As the world burns, I have to admit to my two young daughters the guilt I share for failing to prevent this sphere we briefly call home from slipping into the abyss. Dear daughters, Albert Einstein was a wise and learned man. A long time ago, when I was your budding university ag...

If the world is to phase out fossil fuels in time to prevent a climate catastrophe, the US president needs to put his money where his mouth is. Ahead of its Climate Ambition Summit in September, the United Nations is calling on global leaders to phase out fossil fuels. US Preside...

No consensus reached on key points, including curbing emissions and scaling up renewable energy, despite record temperatures and wildfires across the globe. Environment ministers from G20 nations have failed to agree on ways to curb emissions and other crucial measures to address...

Chief Raoni Metuktire, a well-known leader from the Amazon, calls for removal of invaders from Indigenous territory. The Amazons most famous Indigenous leader has called upon Brazils president to defend the rights of Indigenous people. Chief Raoni Metuktire demanded on Friday tha...

UN chief Antonio Guterres calls the intense heat across the northern hemisphere terrifying as he calls for radical action on climate change. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday pleaded for immediate radical action on climate change, saying that record-sh...

Farmers in northern Tunisia say conditions are getting progressively worse despite government efforts to combat climate change. Tunis, Tunisia Zohra Naffef has been working her husbands farm near Ghar el-Melh in northern Tunisia for years. With her husband now sick, and her fami...

Seawater around southern US state reaches 38.4C in what could be hottest ocean temperature ever recorded. Water temperatures near the tip of Florida in the United States have exceeded 37.8 degrees Celsius (100 Fahrenheit) for two consecutive days, setting what could be a world re...

Its an unstoppable change. As wildfires burn through parts of the world, Al Jazeera cameraman Jim Hoffman explains why some scientists are no longer talking about stopping climate change, but how we have to adapt to it. ...

Extreme weather throughout July has caused havoc in Southern Europe, North Africa and across the world. At least 34 people have died in Algeria and thousands evacuated in parts of Europe due to the intense heatwave that has spread through large areas of the Mediterranean and othe...

Peter Kalmus is an American climate scientist who is fed up with inaction. In April 2022, he chained himself to a bank in protest with a group called Scientist Rebellion. Now, during yet another hot summer, with Russias war in Ukraine and the ensuing global energy crisis, are gro...

As a blistering heatwave hits Tunisia, migrants and refugees from sub-Saharan African countries are forced to endure unbearable conditions. Tunis, Tunisia The makeshift camp outside the offices of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) was practically deserted. Empty...

Climate activist carried away by police for blocking traffic at protest near the harbour in Malmo, Sweden. Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been forcibly removed by police from a protest in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, hours after a local court fined her for disobeying ...

In Pictures A wave of heat is not loosening its grip on the globe. Phoenix has broken its own streak of blistering hot days, while southern Europeans and millions of people on vacation there broiled under near-record temperatures , and parts of the Middle East tested the limits o...

Greece weather institute has warned of temperatures soaring above 40C (104F) as a blistering heatwave sweeps Europe. Greeces capital is facing its hottest July weekend in 50 years with temperatures forecast to soar above 40C (104F) as the nation and others in southern Europe, suc...

As millions in the Northern Hemisphere grapple with extreme heat, we look at the cost of the latest climate threats. Record-breaking temperatures this season are the result of heat-trapped gases caused by burning fossil fuels, as well as by the El Nino weather phenomenon. There i...

A wave of extreme heat, wildfires, torrential rain and flooding has wreaked havoc around the world in recent days. A prominent NASA climatologist has said this July will probably be the worlds hottest month in hundreds, if not thousands, of years. This month has already seen dail...

As parts of Europe continue to battle severe heat, we take a look at the causes and what to expect in the coming days. From record-breaking heatwaves to devastating wildfires, countries across Europe have been battling the effects of extreme weather. Here is what to know: The Wor...

US envoy John Kerry says more work needed before agreement with China on key issues as both nations try to rebuild trust. US climate envoy John Kerry says more work is needed to iron out agreements with China on the climate crisis, as Chinese Vice President Han Zheng said Beijing...

Red alerts are issued for parts of Europe as the UN weather agency says heatwave in northern hemisphere is set to intensify. Large swathes of southern and eastern Europe have been placed on a heatwave red alert and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned of an incr...

Parts of Europe, Asia and North America were preparing for record heat with health warnings and evacuations. Extreme temperatures across the globe are predicted to break heat records and exacerbate wildfires as the dire consequences of climate change become more apparent with eac...

As the US and China restart talks, debate is continuing over who should fund efforts to combat the climate crisis. As global temperatures break records, climate envoys from the United States and China are meeting in Beijing. But political disputes have strained ties between the w...

US envoys talks in Beijing will focus on reducing methane emissions, limiting coal use and helping poor countries address climate change. John Kerry, the United Statess special envoy on climate, has arrived in China to revive efforts to combat global warming amid weeks of record-...

The two biggest greenhouse gas emitters hold talks in Beijing as extreme weather grips much of the globe. United States climate envoy John Kerry has called for urgent action to tackle the climate crisis after four hours of talks with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing as the two ...

Hundreds of firefighters struggle to keep raging wildfire under control as Canary Islands president pleads with residents to leave their homes. At least 4,000 people have been evacuated as a wildfire rages out of control on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma while Europe strug...

Health alerts issued as scorching weather strikes three continents, threatening to topple temperature records. Scorching weather is gripping three continents, whipping up wildfires and threatening to topple temperature records. Predictions of historic heat hung over swathes of As...

Italian health ministry issues a red alert for 16 cities including Rome, Bologna and Florence amid soaring temperatures. Record heat is forecast around the world from the United States, where tens of millions are battling dangerously high temperatures, to Europe and Japan, in the...

Tens of millions of people under heat warnings as high temperatures illustrate perils of warming climate. Heatwaves are gripping parts of Europe, China and the United States, where record temperatures expected this weekend are a stark illustration of the dangers of a warming clim...

Deforestation in the Amazon has dropped in both Brazil and Colombia as elected leaders pledge to prioritise environment. Deforestation in Colombia dropped by 29 percent in 2022, falling to the lowest level in nearly 10 years, according to newly released government statistics. The...

Until their actions align with their words, we should not work with them. For decades, fossil fuel industry executives have managed to get a seat at the table when it comes to negotiating climate policies. Now, they are hosting the table with the appointment of oil executive Sult...

Scientists say they have detected shifts in colours across more than half of the worlds oceans. Over the past 20 years, huge swathes of the worlds oceans have changed colour, displaying a subtle greening towards the tropics that researchers say points to the effect of climate cha...

A group of scientists say human activity has fundamentally altered the geology, atmosphere and biology of the earth. Scientists say human activity has so fundamentally altered the geology, atmosphere and biology of the earth that it has entered a new geologic epoch known as the A...

In Pictures Daily global temperatures reached an unofficial record high multiple times last week, according to at least one metric, and caused communities around the planet to take drastic measures to help people beat the heat. A work stoppage in Beijing stretched into this week ...

Antarctic sea ice sees massive decrease as the ocean continues to rise. This is worrying news for the planet, World Meteorological Organization says. The beginning of July was the hottest week on record as a series of searing days saw global temperature records fall. The news com...

Nauru sees rare earth metals as key to the green transition. But mining them could threaten vital marine ecosystems. Nauru is a small Pacific island 4,000km (2,485 miles) off the coast of Australia. It is so small, it has no capital city and just one road. But its roughly 12,000 ...

Climate action at the local level can offset the damage done by the US Supreme Courts recent rulings. In June, the United States Supreme Court wrapped up the 2022-23 term much like the previous one. In late May, the court undercut the ability of the Environmental Protection Agenc...

Extreme weather events in the worlds most populous and one of the poorest sub regions susceptible to food insecurity, displacement and diseases. Heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan over the past week killed at least 50 people across the country, nearly a year after massive flooding k...

The dead include eight children killed in a landslide while playing cricket after monsoon rains in northern Pakistans Shangla district. At least 50 people, including eight children, have been killed in weather-related incidents triggered by heavy monsoon rains that have lashed Pa...

Increasing temperatures, dying coral reefs and wildfire smoke are indicators of increasingly volatile climate changes. As a warming Earth simmered into worrisome new territory this week, scientists said the unofficial records being set for average planetary temperature were a cle...

Their unprecedented profits over the past year have shown their unwillingness to adapt. Its now D-Day for them. More than most members of the climate community, I have for years held space for the oil and gas industry to finally wake up and stand up to its critical responsibility...

The world registers its highest ever average temperature two days in a row after the hottest June on record. The world saw its two hottest days ever recorded one after the other on Monday and Tuesday as climate change and the El Nino weather pattern looked likely to drive another...

At least 22 countries have recorded maximum temperatures of 50C (122F) or above. Al Jazeera looks at the hottest places on Earth. Monday, July 3, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the United States National Centers for Environmental Prediction. Th...

Scientists say to expect more records to fall this year as climate change and an emerging El Nino pattern make the mercury climb. Monday was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. The average global tem...

Increasing concentration of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is putting the planet in uncharted waters as weather extremes intensify. A new study has highlighted the possibility of major harvest failures caused by climate change in multiple global breadbaskets as the United Natio...

Wildfires have become more intense in Russia in recent seasons, helped by unusually high temperatures in Siberia, driven by climate change. Authorities in the Russian Far East declared a state of emergency on Monday as summer wildfires spread amid intense heat and lightning storm...

Climate conspiracies once suited Beijings narrative. Not any more. Now, China is both a culprit and a target. Much has been written about climate misinformation in the West but there has been far less scrutiny of the problem in China a country that is both a significant carbon e...

Exploration revival follows pressure from investors to maximise oil and gas profits rather than invest in lower margin renewable energy. Oil and gas companies are reinvesting record profits from the fossil fuel price surge driven by the Ukraine war to intensify the hunt for new d...

New measures include targeting activists who block traffic and major building projects with demonstrations. New and expanded powers for British police have taken effect including measures targeting activists who stop road traffic and major construction works with protests. Author...

Nationwide day of action seeks to rally support for a campaign to recognise Australias Indigenous people in its constitution. Thousands of people have rallied in cities and towns across Australia to back a campaign to recognise the countrys Indigenous people in the constitution i...

It is more expensive to borrow money for climate action projects in poor countries than in wealthy countries. This needs to change. In East Africa, start-up company Ampersand Solar has a plan to transition millions of boda boda taxi drivers to cheaper, cleaner electric motorcycle...

Despite record heat, critics warn of a worrying lack of momentum during climate talks with little progress made on key issues such as fossil fuels and finance. The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, clima...

At least 14 heat-related deaths have been tallied in Texas and Louisiana, while Mexico clocks 112 fatalities this year. Authorities in Mexico and the southern United States have reported an uptick in heat-related deaths as high temperatures smother the region, resulting in power ...

Heavy rains are common in South Africas KwaZulu-Natal province and have become more frequent due to climate change, experts say. Seven people have died and at least another seven are missing in South Africas KwaZulu-Natal after the southeastern province was hit by heavy rain and ...

Leaders must tax fossil fuel profits and use this money to invest in a renewable-powered future. Last week, representatives from states and international organisations attended the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris a first-of-its-kind conference aimed at examining ...

Plan seeks to address needs related to increased flooding, wildfires, melting permafrost and other climate-relate risks. Canada has launched its first-ever national strategy to help communities adapt to increasingly severe weather caused by climate change. Increased flooding, wil...

As the world hurtles towards climate devastation, countries like The Gambia, Costa Rica and Morocco may have a fix if others help them. Climate change headlines are rarely positive, but even against that yardstick, the World Meteorological Organizations (WMO) latest global warmi...

Tropical forests destroyed last year released 2.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, equivalent to the fossil fuel emissions of India the worlds most populous nation. The world lost an area of old-growth tropical rainforest the size of Switzerland last year as...

In Pictures At least two people are dead and three others missing after days of heavy rainfall swelled Chiles rivers, causing widespread floods. The deluge blocked roads and prompted an evacuation in the centre of the country amid what has been described as the worst weather fron...

Deaths reported in Indiana, Arkansas after multiple tornadoes down trees and damage homes, authorities say. At least three people have been killed after severe storms hit the US states of Indiana and Arkansas, local authorities said, as several tornadoes touched down in some area...

Putin thanked most of the Wagner mercenaries for not letting the situation deteriorate into bloodshed. This blog is now closed, thanks for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Monday, June 26. ...

Egypts president and Indias PM discuss strengthening relations in areas including trade, food security and defence. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met Egypts President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo on a rare visit during which both sides pledged to deepen their strategic...

The Summit for a New Global Financing Pact wraps up without a deal for a tax on the greenhouse gas emissions produced from international shipping. Participants at a Paris summit on finance and the climate have stopped short of a deal to create a tax on greenhouse gas emissions pr...

Global leaders gather in Paris to seek financial solutions to tackling poverty, curbing planet-heating emissions and protecting nature. French President Emmanuel Macron has opened the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris that seeks to find financial solutions to the in...

As the Global South absorbs devastating climate catastrophes, private sector investments could help cap global warming at tolerable levels. Financing for clean energy in developing and emerging economies, excluding China, must increase seven-fold within a decade if global warming...

Trade, climate change and the war in Ukraine are on the agenda as Scholz meets Li on his first official foreign trip. Germanys Chancellor Olaf Scholz has received Chinas Premier Li Qiang with military honours in Berlin. Li, who is on his first foreign trip since taking office, is...

Melting of glaciers will cause dangerous flooding and water shortages for nearly 2 billion people who live downstream of rivers that originate in the Himalayas, report says. Glaciers in Asias Hindu Kush Himalayas are melting at unprecedented rates and could lose up to 75 percent ...

The heatwave has spurred thunderstorms, flooding and power outages from Florida to Texas, leaving 400,000 without electricity. At least one person has been killed and about two dozen injured after tornadoes swept across Mississippi, as a heatwave smothers the southern United Stat...

In Pictures At least 13 people have been killed in Brazils Rio Grande do Sul after an extra-tropical cyclone struck the region. At least 13 people have been killed and thousands forced from their homes after a cyclone tore through southern Brazil. Torrential rain and strong winds...

Navigating the 21st century requires solidarity not polarity. Over the past decade or so, signs that the American-dominated world order is crumbling have become increasingly more visible. The rise of China boosted by its entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 has chall...

A farming collective of Syrian and Jordanian women in water-poor Mafraq is growing Azolla and changing their lives. Al-Mafraq, Jordan Inside a greenhouse in al-Makeefta village in northern Jordan, Iman al-Athemat stood holding a spaghetti strainer she uses to harvest Azolla grow...

Indias weather office issues red alert warning in some states, including Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. About 170 people have died in two of Indias most populous states in recent days amid a sweltering heatwave, officials say, as hospitals are overwhelmed with patients and routine powe...

The legally binding accord outlines rules to protect biodiversity in waters outside national boundaries. The United Nations has adopted the first-ever international treaty to govern the high seas and protect remote ecosystems vital to humanity, after more than 15 years of discuss...

Between encroachments by big trawlers, lethal pollution levels and a cost-of-living crisis, life is harder than ever. Gabes, Tunisia It takes about 15 minutes for the first police officer to turn up. No reason is given. The frustration on Lakhdar Mahmouds face is unmistakable. T...

Foodbanking builds on African traditions of generosity and communal help and can play a key role in redistributing food in times of drought. Facing a sixth consecutive failed rainy season, countries in the Horn of Africa are staring at the regions worst drought in at least 70 yea...

Officials say at least 34 people have died in the past two days as heatwave takes a toll in Indias most populous state of Uttar Pradesh. At least 34 people have died in the past two days as a large swath of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh swelters under severe heat, offic...

Xi stressed US-China cooperation in meeting with Gates saying common development should be the aim, not hegemony. Chinese President Xi Jinping called Bill Gates an old friend and said he hoped they could cooperate in a way that would benefit both China and the United States, in X...

EU Copernicus Climate Change Service says start of June saw global surface air temper break heat records for the period. Average global temperatures at the start of June were the warmest ever recorded for the period, trouncing previous records by a substantial margin, the Europea...

State official says 22 people were injured in Gujarat but cyclone has lost speed as it moves towards Rajasthan, where heavy rainfall and flash floods are expected. This blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. These were the updates on Cyclone Biparjoy on Thursday, June 15. ...

Long-awaited bill aims to help train workers for new roles in a future green economy, and attract investment dollars. The Canadian government has presented a sustainable jobs bill intended to prepare workers for a transition to a lower-carbon economy following years of consultati...

Cyclone damaged power lines and uproots trees as it hit the coastal towns of India and Pakistan. A few hours after making landfall in Indias Gujarat, the wind speed of Cyclone Biparjoy has decreased to an average of 78 kilometres per hour (48 miles per hour), officials in the Ind...

Wars in Ukraine and Sudan, and the Afghanistan crisis, have forced millions to flee in search of safety. The number of people displaced around the world has reached a record 110 million, with the wars in Ukraine and Sudan forcing millions from their homes, the United Nations High...

In Pictures The coastal regions of India and Pakistan are on high alert with tens of thousands being evacuated a day before Cyclone Biparjoy is expected to make landfall. Classified as a very severe cyclonic storm, Biparjoy, currently packing maximum sustained winds of up to 145 ...

US officials say decision is motivated by concerns that China is filling gap left by the US in UNESCO policymaking. The United Nations cultural and scientific agency UNESCO has announced that the United States plans to rejoin and pay more than $600m in back dues after a decade-...

On Monday, June 12 at 19:30 GMT: Ageing has long been considered a natural and inevitable part of life. But with increasing advancements in biotechnology alongside improvements in understanding of the cellular processes that cause ageing , a growing field of research is beginning...

Locals have been ordered, not asked, to leave, chief minister of Sindh province says in preparation of severe storm likely to hit western India and southern Pakistan this week. Authorities in Pakistan have begun efforts to evacuate more than 80,000 people out of the path of an ap...

Plaintiffs aged five to 22 argue Montanas promotion of an energy system reliant on fossil fuels violates their right to a clean and healthy environment under the US states constitution. A trial begins on Monday in Helena for Held v State of Montana, the first youth-led constitu...

Hail and heavy rain pounded Bannu, Lakki Marwat, and Karak districts of the northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Saturday. Heavy rains pounded Pakistans northwest regions collapsing houses and killing at least 25 people. Rains and hail hit the Bannu, Lakki Marwat, and Karak d...

The female divers struggling to preserve a dying tradition. Korean sea women, or the Haenyeo, have made a living freediving off Jeju Island for centuries. Many of them supported entire families with their harvest and became part of an ancient tradition of female breadwinners in K...

On Friday, June 9 at 19:30 GMT: Researchers are expressing alarm about a huge decline in insect populations around the world, warning of an emergency that has enormous ramifications for biodiversity and the food chain. The scale of the crisis is such that the global insect popula...

Canada is currently battling its most devastating wildfire season on record, with ripple effects reaching as far as Norway. Canada is seeing its worst-ever start to wildfire season , with blazes ravaging much of the country and creating hazardous smoky conditions across the conti...

Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate of 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade, scientists say in a new study. Global greenhouse gas emissions have reached a record high amid an unparalleled acceleration in global warming, according to a new study. From 2013 to 2022, human...

US climate agency says phenomenon, which leads to warmer temperatures, is back after three years. The El Nino climate phenomenon has arrived and is likely to yield extreme weather later this year, including above average temperatures, scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atm...

Images of orange, hazy skies across Canada and parts of US fuel calls to tackle climate crisis making wildfires worse. Montreal, Canada Do you smell smoke? Thats the question people in Canada have been asking each other this week as hundreds of wildfires are burning in what has ...

Swiss Fairness Commission advises world footballs governing body against making unsubstantiated claims in the future. Footballs world governing body FIFA made false and misleading statements about the reduced environmental impact of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, a Swiss regulator ...

Lulas proposal would advance a commitment to deforestation made at the 2021 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland. The administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has announced its plan to eliminate deforestation by 2030 as part of an international pledge to prot...

The international community needs to provide more humanitarian assistance and long-term climate financing to ensure the wellbeing of Somalias children. When tiny Samia was brought to the UNICEF-supported medical centre in the northeastern port city of Bossaso in Somalia, her skin...

In its report to mark the World Environment Day, the rights group says Pakistan is at the frontline of the climate crisis. Islamabad, Pakistan A prominent human rights organisation has issued an urgent plea for global action to protect Pakistan from extreme heatwaves, saying the...

Bangladeshs southeastern coastal population and the estimated one million Rohingya it accommodates face dire consequences from extreme weather. Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh Climate experts in Bangladesh have expressed concern about massive refugee camps here some of the largest in th...

United Nations climate chief says while the rapid end of burning coal, oil, and natural gas is urgently needed, the topic may not even reach crucial COP28 negotiations. The world needs to phase out fossil fuels if it wants to curb devastating global warming, the United Nations cl...

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin tells Asian security summit that conflict is neither imminent nor inevitable and lines of communication with China are crucial. Chinese military officials were scathing of a speech made by United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the...

US president signs legislation lifting the debt ceiling, averting a catastrophic default on the federal governments debt. With just two days to spare, President Joe Biden has signed legislation that lifts the nations debt ceiling , averting an economically disastrous default on t...

A recent event marking the Nakba at the US Congress shows Palestinians can no longer be silenced in Washington. On May 10, a historic event unfolded in the halls of power in Washington. Members of the United States Congress, their staff, and more than a hundred activists, advocat...

An internationally respected former banker gets top economy job, powerful intelligence chief is named foreign minister. Turkeys President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has named former economy chief and internationally respected ex-banker Mehmet Simsek as treasury and finance minister as ...

On Friday, June 2 at 19:30 GMT: Labour unions worldwide have for decades been on the frontline of efforts to restore, protect and improve worker rights. But as the global climate crisis intensifies, they are demanding a worker-friendly green future. Environmental organisations ha...

Hoang Thi Minh Hong is the fifth prominent climate rights defender arrested for alleged tax evasion in the last two years. The United States and United Nations has criticised Vietnams detention of a prominent climate activist, saying such actions were part of a broader trend towa...

Ajay Banga told employees his vision was to create a world free from poverty on a livable planet. The World Banks new president Ajay Banga has asked the lenders 16,000-person staff to double down on development and climate efforts as he seeks to accelerate the banks evolution to ...

Move marks setback for President Lula da Silvas push to protect Indigenous rights and stem Amazon deforestation. Brazils conservative-majority Congress has voted to scale back the authority of two ministries dedicated to upholding Indigenous rights and protecting the environment ...

In Pictures Amina Jamaa Hussein fires off a flurry of questions on the phone as she sits cross-legged on a plastic mat in a camp at Garowe, the capital of Somalias Puntland province. Where are you now? Are you all right? Is the fighting still going on? she asks, worried about her...

Countless lives can be saved by putting national interests aside and spearheading a fossil fuel phase-out at this years COP. There is a big difference between national leaders and global leaders. The former push national interests on the global stage, often using the rhetoric of ...

Impoverished labourers say despite record-breaking temperatures they have little choice but to work outdoors. Recurring heatwaves in Indias capital New Delhi have taken their toll on construction worker Mamta as she labours and sweats through a gruelling 12-hour work day. In the ...

Canada will struggle to meet its ambitious climate target without significant greenhouse gas reductions from Alberta, the nations highest polluting province. The conservative leader of Canadas energy-rich Alberta province has put herself on a collision course with Prime Minister ...

Temperature hits 36.7C in Chinas largest city as records fall across Southeast Asia and South Asia. Shanghai has recorded its hottest day in May in 100 years at 36.7C (98F), shattering the previous high by a full degree. Scientists say global warming is exacerbating adverse weath...

More than 16,000 people leave their homes as crews battle raging blaze near Halifax, Nova Scotia. The capital of Canadas eastern province of Nova Scotia has declared a state of emergency as an out-of-control wildfire raging near Halifax forced thousands of residents to evacuate a...

Top automakers dependence on steel steering planet towards climate catastrophe, environmental group says. Taipei, Taiwan The worlds top automakers are generating an estimated 74 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year due to the industrys failure to decarbonise its steel supp...

Italian authorities are looking into the causes of the abnormal water pigmentation around the landmark Rialto Bridge. The waters in Venices main canal have turned fluorescent green in the area near Italys renowned Rialto Bridge , as authorities seek to determine the cause. Italys...

Governments in Africa and beyond will not be able to handle the cost-of-living crisis unless they start paying attention to the resource that feeds the poor: nature. Over the past three years, a cost-of-living crisis has spread across the world, affecting both rich and poor count...

Ten percent of the worlds population does not have enough food, the highest number in more than a decade. Hunger levels are rising around the world. As many as 828 million people or 10 percent of the worlds population go to bed hungry each night, 46 million more than the previo...

Climate activists blocked parts of a motorway in The Hague to protest against Dutch fossil fuel subsidies. More than 1,500 people have been arrested during a demonstration by the Extinction Rebellion climate group in The Hague, Dutch police said. Activists blocked a section of a ...

Four women and a four-year-old boy were among those killed in the disaster near the Shounter Pass in northern Pakistan, police say. At least 11 people have been killed after an avalanche hit members of a nomadic tribe as they crossed a mountainous area in northern Pakistan, the c...

Conditions on the peak raise concerns for the mountaineering community and people whose livelihoods depend on the flow of visitors. As the mountaineering community prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest, there is growing concern about temperat...

Jordan, the second most water-scarce country in the world, is adapting to the consequences of an ever-changing climate. Wadi Rum, Jordan The sprawling desert valley has for centuries been home to nomadic people who traditionally made a living herding goats, sheep and camels, as ...

A group of Bonaire residents threaten to sue the Dutch government for failing to protect the island from climate change. Danique Martis lives on Bonaire, a Caribbean island that attracts tens of thousands of divers every year to its teeming coral reefs. Speaking to Al Jazeera aft...

The globes southernmost town is hoping to become a hub for biocultural and environmental education. With the exception of a couple of nearby Chilean islands with just a handful of people, the southernmost populated town on our planet is Puerto Williams, Chile. It is located on th...

High oil and gas prices and worries about supplies have seen spending on renewables leap ahead of fossil fuels. Investment in solar power is expected to overtake oil for the first time this year as clean energy spending outpaces that for fossil fuels. While that is a welcome deve...

Air travel between Paris and regional hubs such as Nantes, Lyon and Bordeaux will now be banned. France has formally banned domestic flights on short routes that can be covered by train in less than two-and-a-half hours in a move aimed at reducing airline emissions. The change, w...

Policies aimed at curbing the deadly effects of climate change are accelerating, prompting a rise in what experts identify as organised resistance by opponents of climate reform. Scientists suffering insults and mass spam are abandoning Twitter for alternative social networks as ...

New research published in Nature Sustainability journal suggests several regional countries may have entire populations exposed to extreme temperatures due to climate change. Countries across the Gulf region and the wider Middle East are highly vulnerable to extreme heat borne ou...

Humanitarian organisations say time is running out as affected communities have gone for months with little or no food. Humanitarian agencies are calling for full funding of the United Nations $7bn appeal for the Horn of Africa during a pledging conference that begins on Wednesda...

As the nation of East Timor reclaims its independence, Osme Gonsalves continues a war within himself. Osme Gonsalves is an eccentric performance artist who is deeply frustrated by his young nations political apathy. So he creates a fictional alter-ego as a roving TV reporter call...

Imran Khan and Shahbaz Sharif both represent a model of development that has betrayed most Pakistanis and will again. Crisis is now passe in Pakistan. Admittedly, the current standoff between the authoritarian populist Imran Khan and the military has an element of novelty to it,...

More than 90 percent of deaths caused by disasters worldwide happen in developing countries, UN report finds. Extreme weather has caused the deaths of 2 million people and $4.3 trillion in economic damage over the past half a century, a report by the United Nations finds. Accordi...

Arizona, California and Nevada agree to cut water usage from the Colorado River by 13 percent over three years. Seven states have reached a historic consensus on conserving water from the Colorado River in the western United States, a breakthrough in a region where persistent dro...

G7 says it will not block Chinas development but calls out Beijing on rights record, territorial claims. Hiroshima, Japan The Group of Seven has called for constructive ties with China and insisted it does not seek to block the countrys development, even while taking aim at Beij...

Japanese PM Kishida has expanded the G7s guest list as he seeks to boost ties with middle-power countries. Hiroshima, Japan The Group of Seven (G7) summit is being attended by more countries than its name suggests. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, the host of this years ga...

In Pictures The death toll from floods that have devastated Italys northern region of Emilia-Romagna has risen to 13, with thousands of people forced from their homes, and farms in an area known for its agriculture destroyed. Torrential rains devastated the eastern side of the re...

Host Japan and the US are betraying their climate commitments. Unless the G7 does better, the world wont either. This weekends G7 Leaders Summit in Hiroshima will be one of multifaceted significance. Amid the global energy crisis, Russias continuing war on Ukraine and the closing...

New study finds unsustainable human use has led to more than half of the largest lakes drying up around the world. More than half of the worlds large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying concerns about water for a...

In Pictures New Delhi, India- India has started experiencing what could be another extremely hot summer, similar to last year when the country saw a devastating heatwave that led to widespread human suffering and affected workplaces, informal workers, landless labourers, marginal...

Relief organisations say Iraq, Syria and Yemen in need of much greater financial help to deal with deadly effects of conflict and climate change. Conflict-plagued nations in the Middle East are among the most vulnerable to climate change but are almost entirely excluded from mean...

The talks will focus on Russias war on Ukraine, nuclear disarmament, artificial intelligence, climate change and economic security. Hiroshima, Japan United States President Joe Biden has arrived for a Group of Seven summit set to be dominated by Russias war on Ukraine and concer...

World Meteorological Organization raises alarm, saying at least one of the next five years will be the hottest on record. It is near certain that the next five years will be the warmest period ever recorded, the United Nations has warned, as greenhouse gases and El Nino combine t...

Developed countries promised in 2009 to transfer $100bn annually between 2020 and 2025 to climate-vulnerable states but that target has not been met, British charity Oxfam says. Rich G7 nations owe poor ones an estimated $13 trillion in unpaid development aid as well as support ...

Thousands of people are evacuated after torrential rains in Emilia-Romagna region. River levels still rising. At least eight people have died and thousands have been evacuated as torrential rains battered northern Italys Emilia-Romagna region, triggering widespread floods, offici...

On Tuesday, May 16 at 19:30 GMT: Scorching temperatures and record breaking heat have already grabbed headlines this year as increasingly severe heat waves continue to be a recurring feature of life in many parts of the world. School hours have been cut short in the Philippines w...

Widespread blazes mark an intense start to wildfire season in Canadas oil-rich province of Alberta. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has travelled to Alberta to show support for military personnel sent to the western province to battle wildfires that are still burning and h...

Florida university professor says he will remain underwater until he reaches 100 days and completes a research mission. A university professor in the United States broke a record for the longest time living underwater without depressurisation this weekend at a Florida Keys lodge ...

The storm is one of the most powerful to ever hit the region with winds as strong as 250km/h (155 mph). Cyclone Mocha has crashed ashore in Myanmar leaving relief workers struggling to assess the extent of the damage because the storm caused major disruption to communications. On...

On Friday, May 12 at 19:30 GMT: A year since Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, her family is continuing to fight for justice as Palestinian journalists face frequent threats to their safety and liberty. So far there...

Two Palestinian cousins risk their lives transporting undocumented workers from the occupied West Bank into Israel. Hamouda and his cousin Ismail drive undocumented workers across the border from Palestine into Israel. They speed across the rocky landscape, dodging Israeli milita...

On Thursday, May 11 at 19:30 GMT: Popular AI image generators are able to produce seemingly endless amounts of stunning visual art in just a matter of seconds. So where does the technology leave professional artists? Earlier this year, a group of artists and illustrators filed a ...

On Wednesday, May 10 at 19:30 GMT: For years, climate activists have centered their work around stopping some of the worlds biggest polluters from fossil fuel companies, to the meat industry, to industrial farming. And while they remain some of the biggest contributors to the cl...

We can still heal our countrys deep wounds and build a new Sudan that can accommodate all its sons and daughters. Sudan is going through the most complex crisis in its contemporary history. It started with an attempted coup by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15, 2023, whi...

The deaths from landslides are the latest in a flurry of tragic incidents related to repeated downpours across parts of East Africa. Ten people were killed in a landslide in eastern Democratic Republic of Congos Lubero territory in North Kivu province overnight on Wednesday, loca...

Deep divisions exist among nations over how to combat the growing peril of global warming ahead of UN negotiations, known as COP28, to be held in Dubai in December. Countries should agree to phase out fuel emissions not the production of oil, gas and coal at UN climate talks th...

Western Canada has been hit repeatedly by extreme weather, the intensity increased because of climate change. Canada is struggling to control wildfires that have forced thousands of people to flee, razed towns, halted oil production and caused the western province of Alberta to c...

In Pictures Bodies are still being recovered from two villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo where floods killed more than 400 people last week in one of the deadliest disasters in the countrys recent history. Many dazed survivors were mourning multiple family m...

Is a polar bodys viability at risk if it cannot cooperate with the country that controls most of the Arctic coast? For nearly three decades, the Arctic Council has been a successful example of post-Cold War cooperation. Its eight members, including Russia and the United States, h...

The negative impact of a water project involving a nature-based solution in the city of Khulna should be a cautionary tale for policymakers. As the world scrambles to address climate change and build resilience to prepare communities for its destructive impacts, nature-based solu...

Authorities say 287 killed and 167 others missing after heavy rains caused rivers to burst their banks in South Kivu province. The death toll following flooding and landslides in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week has risen to at least 401, according to Theo Ngwabidje Kas...

Almost all of Alberta and much of neighbouring Saskatchewan province face extreme fire risks. Alberta has announced a state of emergency as wildfires flare across the Canadian province, forcing 25,000 people to flee their homes in what a top official said was an unprecedented cri...

Advocates demand urgent action on day commemorating missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in US and Canada. Calls are once again ringing out in Canada and the United States for action to stop violence against Indigenous women and girls , a persistent problem that has de...

Brazilian President Lula da Silva, who has promised to end Amazon deforestation, welcomes a $101m pledge to the Amazon Fund. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the United Kingdom will contribute more than $101m (80 million pounds) to Brazils Amazon Fund, an initiative th...

With no sign of rain clouds, the Catalan regional government broadens curbs on water use to 495 towns or villages. LEspluga de Francoli, Spain Father Antonio Rosario will call on the Lord next month to open the heavens and bring some desperately needed rain to his parish. The pr...

UNICEF estimates that some 640 million girls and women today were married when they were below 18. Child marriages are declining but at a rate that would not eliminate the practice for another 300 years, as a series of crises, including climate change, threatens to reverse the tr...

He replaces David Malpass, who was criticised for his stance on climate change and will step down nearly a year early. The World Banks 25-member executive board on Wednesday elected former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to a five-year term as president, effective June 2, the bank said...

From France to Chile, the construction of big water reservoirs for irrigation threatens communities and violates the human right to access water. On March 24, 25 and 26, more than 25,000 people gathered in the commune of Sainte-Soline, western France, as part of an international ...

The report finds the number of people facing acute food shortages and requiring urgent food aid increased for the fourth consecutive year. Almost 258 million people in 58 countries faced acute food shortages last year due to conflicts, climate change, effects of the coronavirus p...

At the Berlin climate conference, calls grow to set a deadline for phasing out all fossil fuels, which face stiff resistance from major oil and gas exporting nations. Germany called for governments around the world to work on setting an ambitious target for renewable energy that ...

Food, drink and energy prices keep climbing across the single currency area following Russias invasion of Ukraine. Annual inflation in the eurozone rose to 7 percent in April, according to the European Unions statistics agency, the first increase after five consecutive monthly de...

It told me it would take human jobs faster than the Kardashians dump boyfriends. Should we be worried? This Labour Day, working people around the world have little to celebrate. Amid climate change, war and pandemics, inequality is rising, wages are stagnating or even falling, an...

All the updates from April 30 as they happened. This live blog is closed, thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Sudan conflict on Sunday, April 30. ...

The Liddell power station is set to be replaced by clean energy projects, including a hydrogen power plant. Australias oldest coal-fired power plant has been shut down, as the country a once-notorious climate straggler prepares for a seismic shift towards renewable energy. The ...

Water in the western United States is at a dangerously low level, and the electricity supply for 40 million people could be at risk. It is all because of the regions worst drought in more than 1,000 years. This summer, the US government is set to make some big decisions on who ge...

Extortionate debt forces nations to pursue climate-unfriendly policies in the hope of repaying loans. Until the next crisis strikes. As climate activists, we are used to banging our heads against brick walls. Amid the need to rapidly move away from fossil fuels, deforestation and...

We need systemic change. But the same experts and politicians who got us into this mess cannot be trusted to redesign the global economic system. Economic summits in Washington, DC rarely provoke much interest on the streets of Khartoum or Karachi. The Spring Meetings of the IMF ...

World Weather Attribution scientists say rising greenhouse gas emissions made the nearly 3-year drought at least 100 times more likely. The drought that has left some 4.35 million people in the Horn of Africa in dire need of humanitarian aid with 43,000 in Somalia estimated to h...

Leaders from northern European states pledge huge investment in green energy. Finding new sources of green energy is no longer merely an aspiration for many governments, with the risks from climate change now felt around the world. In Europe, the war in Ukraine has forced countri...

Country will focus on longer-range capabilities and strengthening operations of its northern military bases. Australia has said the acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines, long-range strike capabilities and its northern bases will be among the countrys six priority areas after...

In East Africa, famine is once again looming. We have to act now to save lives. A person dies of hunger every 30 seconds in East Africa, where famine is looming for the third time in little more than a decade. It does not have to be this way. This crisis fuelled by climate chang...

Approvals of coal-fired power plants fuel concerns that China will backtrack on goal to become carbon neutral by 2060. China has approved a surge in coal power this year, prioritising energy supplies over its pledge to reduce emissions from fossil fuels, according to a report by ...

New report from World Meteorological Organization finds people on every continent are being affected by climate change. The state of global climate is alarming, to say the least. That is according to a report by the United Nations World Meteorological Organization. It says people...

earthrise explores how faith communities are mobilising to protect our common planetary home. With nearly 85 percent of the global population claiming affiliation with a faith, how are the worlds religions taking action on the climate and nature crises? Starting with a summer sol...

Climate change campaigners mark Earth Day with protest focusing on nature and biodiversity. Thousands of protesters descended on Britains Parliament on Saturday as part of a four-day action, billed The Big One , designed to highlight the environmental failures of government. Envi...

Activists take part in The Big One event in the UK capital to demand the government do more to tackle the climate crisis. Environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion has begun four days of action in London, promising less disruption and more inclusion than the mass blockade...

DHS head says migration, artificial intelligence, China, and climate change are top priorities for the 20-year-old department. United States Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas has laid out a vision for the department and how it will address evolved threats as it moves into...

Sea level rises double, and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a record, World Meteorological Organization warns. Record levels of greenhouse gases have caused planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean and in the atmosphere, a UN agency says in a report that shows the pas...

The two leaders discussed issues such as climate change, migration and drug trafficking in a White House meeting. Colombian President Gustavo Petro has met US President Joe Biden on Thursday, as the two countries seek to confront issues such as climate change, migration and drug ...

As historic drought forces the US to mull Colorado River water cuts, Indigenous communities are pushing to have their voices heard. Page, Arizona The water seems to sparkle as the midday sun shines down on the maze of connected canyons that make up Lake Powell. Flying high above...

In Pictures The United States is considering water cuts across seven states that rely on the Colorado River, a 2,330km (1,450-mile) waterway that supplies drinking water and electricity to tens of millions of people in the American West. The need for reductions, which are expecte...

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The South Pacific nation plans to mine the seabed for metals needed in the green energy transition. But could the fight against climate change put our oceans at risk? The ship was rocking from side to side and I was struggling to find my sea legs as I stumbled into the queue for ...

101 East investigates how the Pacific Ocean could be the first frontier of deep-sea mining. Resource companies and island nations are scouring the Pacific Ocean for vast untapped minerals. Trillions of rocks found on the seabed contain metals that could power electric cars and gr...

One of the largest rivers in the US is in crisis. Heres all you need to know about the key western waterway. Durango, Colorado, US As the western United States faces historic drought , communities across the region are grappling with how to save the Colorado River, a key waterwa...

A growing China is in the interest of both countries, as long as it follows global rules, Yellen says. The US seeks constructive and fair economic ties with China, but will protect its national security interests and push back against Chinese actions to dominate foreign competito...

Twin cyclones hit the Pacific island nation already struggling to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Port Vila, Vanuatu On the waterfront in Port Vila, Mark Philips runs an adventure tours business. He bought U Power Sea Adventures, which guides holidaymakers thr...

Why the worlds production and consumption of beef and dairy products are at the core of the fight over climate change. Meat production and consumption particularly of beef are major contributors to global warming. The methane expelled by cattle and other farm animals accounts f...

New laws signal the end of Australias decade of political brawling that repeatedly derailed attempts to tackle its contribution to global warming. Australias parliament has passed breakthrough climate laws targeting the nations worst polluters, forcing coal mines and oil refineri...

Pacific island state Vanuatu one of the worlds most vulnerable to climate change has led the UN initiative to deliver climate justice with a legal basis. The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution proposed by the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu to seek ...

Sweden needs to cut emissions by at least 6.5 to 9.4 million tonnes of CO2 per year starting from 2019, lawsuit says. A Swedish court has given Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other climate activists the go-ahead to proceed with a class action lawsuit against the Swedish governmen...

IPCCs world-leading scientists say resources and knowledge are sufficient to tackle the global climate crisis. The world has the tools to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to secure a sustainable future if more ambitious actions are taken, a United Nations report has said, noti...

New synthesis report will play a pivotal role when governments gather in Dubai in December for the UN climate summit. A major new United Nations report being released on Monday is expected to provide a sobering reminder that time is running out if humanity wants to avoid passing ...

Hitting the 2015 Paris Agreement temperature goals will require a massive reduction in fossil fuel use and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, IPCC reports say. Earth is hotter than it has been in 125,000 years but deadly heatwaves, storms and floods amplified by glo...

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the latest report by UN climate scientists could not come at a more pivotal time. The head of the United Nations called for scientists to serve up cold hard facts to push governments into making policies that curb climate change before a ke...

Europe was hit by a severe winter heatwave in late December and early January, bringing record-high temperatures. Europe is emerging from its second-warmest winter on record as climate change continues to intensify. The average temperature in Europe from December to February was ...

An innovative effort in the Danish North Sea is repurposing an oil and gas well to store carbon dioxide shipped from Belgium using tankers. A groundbreaking offshore carbon capture and storage site will be launched in the Danish part of the North Sea on Wednesday. Carbon dioxide ...

Report released during discussion on how Berlin could cut greenhouse gas emissions in challenging sectors like transportation. Climate change could cost Germany up to 900 billion euros ($960bn) in cumulative economic damage by mid-century, a new study shows, as Europes biggest ec...

The controversial theory of solar geoengineering is at the centre of a growing body of climate research in Asia and elsewhere. Taipei, Taiwan At opposite ends of Southeast Asia, researchers Pornampai Narenpitak and Heri Kuswanto are both working on the same problem: Is it possib...

Jiangsu, Shandong and Hebei ranked among the areas most vulnerable to rising water levels and extreme weather. China is home to more than three-quarters of the regions most at risk from climate change, with some of the worlds most important manufacturing centres threatened by ext...

Melting of the Florida-sized glacier is of grave concern, with the potential for significant global sea level rise. Scientists studying Antarcticas vast Thwaites Glacier nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier say warm water is seeping into its weak spots, threatening its demise and a m...

How and why the oil industry downplayed climate change. Watch part 2 below More than 40 years ago, the worlds largest and most profitable oil companies began to understand the effects their products were having on our climate. Their own scientific research told them so well befo...

Apocalypse investors are pushing fake climate solutions on us that are making climate change worse. More than a decade ago, investment experts James Altucher and Douglas Sease wrote a book for the Wall Street Journal called Investing in the Apocalypse. They argued that the end of...

In Pictures The sea has already swallowed the village graveyard in Togoru, Fiji, and longtime resident Lavenia McGoon is dreading the day it claims her house. She piles old rubber car tyres under the coconut trees that line the beachfront, hoping this makeshift seawall will at le...

US-based oil companys own scientists accurately predicted global warming as far back as the 1970s, study says. ExxonMobil publicly sowed doubt about climate change despite the oil giants own scientists accurately predicting global warming as far back as the 1970s, a new study say...

Rising cost of living, energy and food supply crunches, and heavy national debt threaten to thwart the collective will needed to address the climate crisis, new report says. Climate change is the global economys biggest long-term challenge but one the world is least prepared to t...

In Pictures Residents of the oasis of Alnif say they cannot remember a drought this bad. The land is dry. Some wells are empty. Palm groves that date back more than 100 years are barren. Home to centuries-old oases that have been a trademark of Morocco , this region, about 274km ...

earthrise meets some of the environmental campaigners and lawyers who are forcing systemic change through the courts. In this series of earthrise, we meet some of the people calling for systems change in the absence of meaningful global action on the climate crisis. Law is becomi...

Secretary General Antonio Guterres warns that governments have fallen short of their emission reduction targets. The United Nations will host a no-nonsense climate summit in 2023 to spur action from governments on the climate crisis, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says, as...

The town of Newtok is one of the first communities in the US to collectively move because of the climate crisis. Last week, as Carolyn George slept in her home in the small United States town of Newtok, Alaska, a scary sound jolted her awake. I heard a really loud bump, George re...

The COP27 fund is an important step forward. But its not climate justice. After innumerable fits and starts, COP27 witnessed a win for climate diplomacy in November, when the United Nations climate conference agreed to set up a fund for loss and damage caused by global warming a...

The nomads who have travelled around Mongolias Tsaikhir Valley for generations are struggling with intensifying drought. Tsaikhir Valley, Mongolia Myagmar-Ochir may be just three years old, but he already has big plans for his future. I want to be a horseman, he says. I want to ...

At the global plastics treaty talks, we, the people, need to speak louder than the plastic-addicted corporations. In March, there was a collective cheer when United Nations member states adopted a historic resolution to end plastic pollution during the UN Environment Assembly in ...

Weve been able to see the future, and we still ignored it, says Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki. Climate change is often talked about in terms of its impact on the future of humanity and the planet. But for many, the realities of the climate crisis have already hit home. J...

While a climate fund for poorer nations was established, no progress was made to reduce emissions and abandon fossil fuels. For the first time, the nations of the world decided to help pay for the damage an overheating world is inflicting on poor countries, but they finished mara...

Pleas from the Global South will not stir Western government into action. Only Western suffering will. If there is anything that has been true in the history of the world, it is that states, and especially Western states, rarely if ever act out of a sense of moral compulsion, whe...

Is green technology simply delaying the most crucial climate action of all slashing emissions? Earths resources are limited but human ingenuity is infinite! Thats the belief at the heart of the techno-optimist view that technology and innovation can provide solutions to the eco...

In Pictures Like the rest of the Caribbean, Cuba is suffering from longer droughts, warmer waters, more intense storms, and higher sea levels because of climate change . The rainy season, already problematic for farmers, has gotten longer and wetter. Agriculture has long been a r...

US president outlines steps US is taking against climate change, apologises for Trump withdrawal from Paris Agreement. US President Joe Biden has issued a call for global action to combat the climate crisis , which he called a threat to the very life of the planet. Speaking at th...

Are carbon offsets, net zero, climate-neutral all a myth? Join Ali Rae in this first episode of #AllHailThePlanet a series delving into the social, economic and political forces undermining meaningful global action on climate change. In this episode, Ali speaks with environmenta...

The African COP is a mouthpiece for fossil fuel lobbyists rather than the victims of climate change, activists say. More than 600 delegates affiliated with the fossil fuel industry are attending this years climate talks in Egypt , campaign group Global Witness has found, a number...

Critics lament nonexistent government measures on climate change as iconic lakes such as Urmia in northwest Iran disappear. An Iranian man laments the damage done to Irans physical landscape as he goes on his daily jog through Tehran. There was a long river close to his house tha...

China says it is under no obligation to contribute but is still willing to help compensate poorer countries. China would be willing to contribute to a mechanism for compensating poorer countries for losses and damage caused by climate change , its climate envoy Xie Zhenhua has sa...

A trillion dollars of that should come from rich countries, investors and multilateral development banks, UN-backed report says. Developing and emerging countries excluding China need investments well beyond $2 trillion annually by 2030 if the world is to stop the global warming ...

COP27 delegates will be relying on UN climate science agency studies to make decisions about future energy plans. At the COP27 conference in Egypt, delegates will be relying on decades of scientific research published by the UN climate science agency to sway decisions about futur...

The UNs weather and climate body outlines chronicle of climate chaos as COP27 talks get under way in Egypt. The past eight years are on track to be the hottest ever recorded, a United Nations report has found, as UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that the planet was sending a dist...

At COP27, negotiators and civil society groups will lobby not just for more money on the table, but also new avenues for capital to make a faster impact. After decades of slow progress on climate action, with political leaders dragging their heels on finance or debating whether c...

The most important protective measure to prevent major glacier retreat globally would be to drastically reduce carbon emissions. Some of the worlds most famous glaciers, including in the Dolomites in Italy, the Yosemite and Yellowstone parks in the United States, and Mount Kilima...

UN World Meteorological Organization warns that even well prepared societies are not safe from climate change impacts. Europe has warmed at more than twice the global average over the past three decades and experienced a greater temperature rise than any other continent, the Unit...

Brazils president-elect promises to boost protection of Amazon rainforest after surge in deforestation under Bolsonaro. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvas presidential election victory in Brazil has spurred renewed hope for the future of the worlds largest rainforest as the left-wing lea...

The London mayor discusses if city mayors can win the climate crisis race. As many countries continue to spend resources on urban development, the climate crisis is deepening. A network of city mayors came together to deliver urgently needed actions to confront the climate crisis...

UN climate experts say keeping global warming below 1.5C requires major social and economic transformation. The United Nations has found that only a swift system-wide transformation of the energy sector can stave off the most devastating effects of climate change, as projections ...

UN Environment Programme reports that implementation of current government climate pledges will lead to a 2.4-2.6C temperature rise this century. The planet is heading for climate catastrophe, the UN has warned as a report showed how far off track nations are on cutting global wa...

Head of UN Climate Change says governments need to strengthen their climate plans and implement them in the next eight years. A new report by the United Nations has warned that the climate plans from governments worldwide remain insufficient to limit rising temperatures to 1.5 de...

A string of climate change deniers have sought to downplay the significance of global warming and humanitys role in driving it. When climate scientist Peter Stott checked into his flight from London to Moscow in July 2004, his excitement gave way to shock when a colleague explain...

Organisers say 140,000 people attended the march against the rising cost of living and alleged government inaction against climate change. Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Paris adding to growing defiance and anger about inflation, three weeks into a refinery strike tha...

Western countries said they will spend about $25bn by 2025 to help Africa adapt to climate change but pledged only $55m. Ghanas President Nana Akufo-Addo has criticised Western nations for their low financial commitment to addressing issues caused by climate change on the contine...

Publication by the UN, Red Cross says 38 heatwaves accounted for the deaths of more than 70,000 people worldwide from 2010 to 2019. Heatwaves will become so extreme in parts of Africa and Asia within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, a new report by the United ...

Climate talks known as COP27 in Egypt in November must be the place for serious action on loss and damage, UN chief says. The UN General Assembly passed a resolution on Friday for better access to international financing to help developing nations mitigate and adapt to increasing...

New partnership deal signed by 14 nations follows historic summit at the White House and comes as China extends influence in the region. The United States and Pacific island nations have signed up to a new era of cooperation, making climate change the highest priority and promisi...

Campaigners say it is the G20 countries that produce 80 percent of global greenhouse emissions. Pakistans catastrophic floods have led to renewed calls for rich polluting nations that grew their economies through heavy use of fossil fuels to compensate developing countries for th...

UN ruling creates a pathway to allow climate victims to force national governments to address their plight. Australia violated the human rights of a group of islanders off its north coast by failing to adequately protect them from the effects of climate change, a United Nations c...

World Weather Attribution analysis says global warming was not the biggest cause of the catastrophic floods. Human-caused climate change likely contributed to the deadly floods in Pakistan recently, experts say in a new scientific analysis that looked at how much global warming w...

Pakistan is still submerged after months of flooding and aid is slow to come. Months of torrential downpours and flooding have hounded Pakistan, and much of the blame is falling on climate change. But Pakistans contribution to greenhouse gasses is less than 1 percent. So how is t...

The African continent emits only some 3 percent of global CO2 emissions, yet is among the most exposed to climate change. The leaders of two dozen African countries have urged wealthier nations to uphold their aid pledges so the continent can tackle climate change effects for whi...

Antonio Guterres says he has simply no words to describe what he witnessed in Pakistan as he blames wealthier nations for the devastation. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who is visiting flood-ravaged Pakistan , says he has never seen climate carnage on such a ...

With extreme weather events affecting cropping patterns, growers need to be equipped with new farming methods. In Haryanas Bithmara, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) northwest of the capital New Delhi, 37-year-old Satish Jangra is distraught after seeing his paddy crops destroyed...

Climate change activists also padlocked themselves to gates outside the parliament buildings, saying we cannot afford to carry on like this. Environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion supporters entered the House of Commons debating chamber and superglued themselves around...

A two-part series on the division between peoples opinions on climate change in the United States. Watch Part 1 above. Watch Part 2 below. Like the rest of the world, the United States has seen record temperatures, drought and wildfires in recent years some of the long-predicted...

Scientists say intense droughts, wildfires and heatwaves are the new reality. Adapting to climate change is no longer an option. Its an obligation. Thats the warning from Frances green transition minister as people in Europe experience droughts, wildfires and heatwaves. The Europ...

Italy, Spain, Germany, Portugal, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are enduring severe droughts this summer. Italys worst drought in decades has reduced Lake Garda, the countrys largest, to near its lowest level ever recorded and warming the water to temperatures tha...

The Senate of the United States the worlds largest greenhouse gas emitter has passed unprecedented legislation aiming to cut emissions 40 percent by 2030. Scientists welcomed the passing of US President Joe Bidens historic climate bill while calling for other major emitters na...

In Pictures For Yemeni beekeeper Mohammed Saif, honey production used to be a lucrative business, but years of war and climate change have taken the buzz out of the family hives. The business, handed down from father to son, is slowly disappearing, said Saif. The bees are being h...

In Pictures Lemghaysse, Mauritania Growing up in this arid corner of southeast Mauritania, on the edge of the Sahara desert, Ahmed Brahim remembers how seasonal rains would transform the landscape each year. Watering holes served local livestock, fruit ripened on trees, and anim...

Such a declaration would enable the US president to halt crude oil exports and facilitate investments in clean energy tech. Los Angeles, California US President Joe Biden is considering declaring a national climate emergency , which would allow him to unlock new executive powers...

The searing heat is part of a global pattern of rising temperatures, attributed by scientists to human activity. Brutal heatwaves are gripping Europe and the United States and are forecast to dump searing heat on much of China into late August. The searing heat is part of a globa...

The pope says leaders need to heed the Earths cries of anguish stemming from climate change. Pope Francis has called on world leaders to heed the Earths chorus of cries of anguish stemming from climate change, extreme weather and loss of biodiversity. In a message on Thursday for...

Summer 2022 risks being a perfect storm for glaciers due to soaring temperatures and a lack of winter snow, an expert warns. Glaciers in Europes Alps are becoming more unstable and dangerous as rising temperatures linked to climate change are reawakening what were long seen as do...

As India suffers through an extreme heatwave, 101 East goes to the fiery heart of the crisis where residents are sweltering in soaring temperatures. In Indias capital, New Delhi, mountains of rubbish are on fire. Blazes are breaking out in slums, residents are suffering heat stro...

The five-day United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal is focused on restoring the health of the oceans. The world is facing an ocean emergency, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has warned, as thousands of activists, scientists and leaders gathered at the UN Ocean ...

The densely populated delta nation, one of the worlds most climate-vulnerable, is facing its worst floods in more than a century. The worst floods in Bangladesh in more than a century have killed dozens of people so far and displaced nearly 4 million people, with authorities warn...

Russian invasion of Ukraine has left US and other countries seeking more fossil fuel output, threatening climate goals. United States President Joe Biden has urged world leaders to ramp up efforts to combat climate change as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to underline ...

In Pictures Heavily pregnant Sonari toils under the burning sun in fields dotted with bright yellow melons in Pakistans Jacobabad, which last month became the hottest city on Earth. Her 17-year-old neighbour Waderi, who gave birth a few weeks ago, is back working in temperatures ...

With Egypts COP27 less than six months away, experts are calling attention to the Middle East and North Africa regions transition to clean energy. Global climate talks are coming to the hottest and driest part of the planet. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region will hos...

With temperatures 9C above normal, Lahores tourism sector accustomed to foreign visitors until the end of May has been shell-shocked in recent months. Lahore, Pakistan Tour guide Adil Lahorei was told by his clients from Eastern Europe that it was time to head north immediatel...

The atmospheric CO2 level in May was 50 percent higher than during the pre-industrial era, raising fears about climate change. Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in May were 50 percent higher than during the pre-industrial era, reaching levels not seen on Earth fo...

Ecologically disastrous conditions in the Gulf are the latest sign of the dangers that climate change and other related factors pose to the Middle East. In recent weeks, many in the Gulf have been looking up to an apocalyptic orange sky with a flurry of sand and dust storms (SDSs...

Prime Minister Bob Loughman says using the term emergency is a way of signalling the need for responsible nations to match action to the size and urgency of the crisis. Vanuatus parliament has declared a climate emergency with the low-lying island nations prime minister flagging ...

Deal will see the two nations develop and deploy technologies to speed up the clean energy transition, particularly in the areas of offshore wind power, zero-emissions vehicles and hydrogen. The United States and Germany have signed an agreement to deepen cooperation on shifting ...

Basra was known for farming, but rising temperatures, increased water salinity, and desertification, have changed that. Basra, Iraq Southern Iraq was once known as the black land the vast swaths of palm trees blocking out everything else, and providing food, shelter, and shade....

Environmental groups warn nations risk undermining their green goals by scrambling to secure new sources of natural gas to make up for shortfalls in supplies from Russia. Ministers from the worlds wealthiest democracies will wrangle over how to keep climate change goals on track ...

Study says heatwaves in India and Pakistan should be extraordinarily rare but current level of global warming made them 30 times more likely. The devastating heatwave that has baked India and Pakistan in recent months was made more likely by climate change and is a glimpse of the...

The choosing of politicians running to tackle climate change is a remarkable shift for Australia, one of the worlds biggest per-capita carbon emitters and top coal and gas exporters. Australias election has brought in a wave of Greens and independents pushing for aggressive targe...

Australias conservative coalition has been voted out of office after nearly a decade in power. Australia has seen unprecedented bushfires and flooding in recent years. Extreme weather has brought climate change to the top of the agenda for voters. And Greens and climate-focused i...

On Thursday, May 19 at 19:30GMT: More than 17.2 million Australians are set to vote during this weeks elections and for the first time, climate change could shape the outcome in a major way. Massive deadly bushfires in 2019 and destructive flooding in 2021 have changed many Aust...

Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification all set new records last year. Four key climate change indicators all set new record highs in 2021, the United Nations has said, warning that the global energy system was driving humanity towards ca...

The majority of Australians want action on climate change, but you would not know that from the campaign for Saturdays election. Canberra, Australia As southern Australia continues to recover from the destruction of the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires, towns in Queensland and N...

It is high time for rich countries in North America and Europe to step up and help. Right now in India and Pakistan, a record-breaking heatwave is impacting the daily lives of nearly a billion people. Scorching temperatures are damaging wheat harvests, preventing many labourers f...

As families migrate after climate-related disasters, UNICEF says 1.7 million of the countrys children are now labourers. Twelve-year-old Alamins house rested on the bank of the Ilsha River in southern Bangladesh until last year, when the surging river eroded it and the familys fa...

Tens of millions of Indians are struggling to cope with a relentless heatwave, with temperatures reaching record highs. New Delhi, India Construction worker Gujral Singh tears up as he voices his concerns about toiling in Indias searing heat this summer. Tens of millions of Indi...

Hundreds of millions in India and Pakistan struggle to stay cool in record-breaking temperatures. Scientists have long warned that climate change will lead to more intense weather, such as heatwaves, floods and cyclones. Many point to record-breaking temperatures now in India and...

Likely hot spots include the Sahel, Ethiopian Highlands, Rift Valley, India, eastern China, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Climate change will drive animals towards cooler areas where their first encounters with other species will vastly increase the risk of new viruses infectin...

A Norwegian climatologist sets sail in the Caribbean to understand the effects of climate change. Kerim Nisancioglu is a climatology professor in Norway. He knows the best way to engage the next generation of climate scientists is not in a lecture theatre, but on a ship-turned-re...

Nuclear power can help with the global energy transition away from fossil fuels, but for Middle East nations there are dangers at every turn. A renewed interest in nuclear power is under way. With the climate crisis already pressuring countries to depend less on fossil fuels, Rus...

We have what amounts to a nanosecond in human history to save ourselves and everyone who may or may not come after us. I have to interrupt your regularly scheduled stuff to issue this dire warning: You, me and the rest of the world are whistling into the abyss. The damning fact i...

UN panel warns that policies are leading the planet to extreme temperature rises, and calls for an urgent halt to rising emissions. Humanity has less than three years to halt the rise of planet-warming carbon emissions and less than a decade to slash them almost in half, accordin...

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine boosting energy costs and reducing availability, proponents are pushing back against fossil fuel eradication. Proponents of fossil fuel production hit back against efforts to tackle the climate crisis by urgently phasing out the burning of hyd...

Al Jazeera talks to UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa before the first-ever MENA Climate Week in Dubai. The first-ever Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Climate Week runs from March 28 to 31 as one of the worlds most vulnerable regions to climate change se...

What can we do to reverse the trend? For the first time, there is high confidence among scientists that the impacts of climate change are increasingly driving displacement in all regions of the world. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) latest report , published...

Banks and big corporations are still pouring billions into coal and oil, making climate breakdown harder to beat. The spectre of nuclear war has once again reared its head with Russias invasion of Ukraine and the world is rightly fearful of its renewed proximity. There is an almi...

World has a brief and rapidly closing window to stem the worst effects of climate change, latest UN report warns. Climate change is upon us and humanity is far from ready, the United Nations climate science panel warned in a major report on Monday. Noting nearly half the worlds p...

Little done in response to repeated warnings of risks of mountainside construction, researchers and public servants say. The landslides that devastated the Brazilian mountain city of Petropolis this week demolished houses and ripped families apart, scarred hillsides and hearts, a...

As global warming continues to devastate rural agriculture, young women are moving to urban centres and into prostitution. Epworth, Zimbabwe Tawanda, 16, gazes calmly into the sky as the sun sets, getting ready for work as the night begins. Tawanda, whose name has been changed ...

On Thursday, February 10 at 19:30GMT: Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity, and no one is safe from it. Around the world, health care providers say said they are already seeing the effects of climate change on their patients. Warmer global temperatur...

Wetlands are estimated to bring health, food and water security benefits to four billion people globally but many are under threat. Wetlands land consisting of swamps or marshes have, during the centuries, been demonised as places of pestilence, drained for agriculture or urba...

The EUs Copernicus Climate Change Service says the last seven years were the warmest by a clear margin since records began. The year 2021 was the worlds fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit new highs, European Un...

The volume of greenhouse gas emitted by the financial-services industry is outrageous, the US Senator said in a tweet. Senator Elizabeth Warren accused the financial services industry of being a major contributor to climate change and urged U.S. regulators to hold it to account. ...

But to have a chance at making a difference, it needs sanctions imposed by the West to be lifted. The COP26 meeting of nations came at an extraordinary time in world history. Many countries are still battling the pandemic, its impact on public health and public finances. At the s...

The UN estimates 80 percent of the Sahels rain-fed farmland is affected by degradation due to erratic rainfall. More than 1.3 million people have been plunged into extreme poverty in the Sahel, as the Belt of Africa experiences its deepest recession since independence due to COVI...

Not the Global Norths future. COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, was an event where less than 0.0004 percent of the population met to negotiate our lives. World leaders, through their decisions on how to limit global heating, are the powers deciding who gets to live and who gets to die....

The two biggest carbon polluters announce enhanced efforts to combat climate change with concrete actions. China and the United States, the worlds two largest emitters of carbon dioxide, unveiled a deal to ramp up cooperation tackling climate change, including by reducing methane...

North African nation has led the way in the MENA region to combat global warming with renewable energy projects. Morocco is increasingly feeling the effects of climate change but unlike other nations, it long ago accepted the challenge and developed an array of tactics to counter...

With the lifting of US sanctions the main focus of Irans new government, analysts say its transition to a green economy hangs in the balance. Its like being stuck between a rock and a hard place. The status of Irans response to climate change depends on the one hand on a conserva...

The Climate Action Tracker research group says despite COP26 pledges, global warming would still surpass UN target cap of 1.5C. A climate research group has said 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming was likely this century, despite pledges from numerous ...

At the current level of greenhouse gas emissions, the Middle East and North Africa region will suffer scorching heatwaves and impossible living conditions. The Middle East and North Africa is already the hottest and driest region on the planet but climate change could make some a...

A devastating convergence of conflict and climate change is driving displacement and making life even more precarious for those forced to flee. In the run-up to COP26, much of the conversation has dealt with predictions about the future and forthcoming pledges for more decisive a...

UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi: Rich countries response to global migration is to shut down, to separate, to push back. Climate change is fast approaching the point of no return. From extreme heatwaves, wildfires, and drought in the western part of the United States to deadly floods ...

World leaders gathered on the first day of COP26 to discuss urgent action to combat global warming. World leaders ramped up the rhetoric on Monday in an attempt to revive sputtering international climate negotiations. The COP26 conference in the Scottish city of Glasgow opened on...

Major climate disasters this year struck many countries around the world, including the United States, Greece, and Indonesia among others. A wide range of natural disasters struck numerous parts of the world this year. From deadly floods and wildfires to record-breaking rainfall ...

The worlds biggest such complex will capture 4,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas per year in boxes the size of shipping containers. On a remote plateau in southwest Iceland, surrounded by dark crags and swaths of green moss, a major new facility has opened with the bold promise of hel...

G20 leaders offer mild pledges on net-zero emissions and coal financing, leaving uphill task for COP26. Leaders of the worlds 20 biggest economies have agreed to tackle the critical and urgent threat of climate change but angered activists by offering few concrete commitments to ...

Effects of human-caused global warming are happening now and will only worsen if action to decarbonise is not urgently taken, researchers say. As the COP26 climate change conference gets under way in Glasgow on Sunday, world leaders will likely have their last chance to curtail t...

COP26 aims to keep alive a target of capping global warming at 1.5C, amid warnings of disastrous climate catastrophe. The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) has begun in the Scottish city of Glasgow, accompanied by drastic warnings from the scientific community of a...

Officials at G20 said cleaner steel and aluminium production is needed to tackle the climate crisis. US President Joe Biden and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen agreed to crack down on dirty steel and lift tariffs in a bid to curb carbon emissions and repair transatl...

The world has eight years to remove 28 gigatonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere to meet its 1.5C goal. Climate change is no longer a future problem. It is a now problem. As we saw this year, climate impacts are intensifying and spreading across the globe. The Intergovernmental Panel...

Australian governments new plan to combat climate change may have little effect if coal mining continues. Canberra, Australia Days before departing for Glasgow to attend COP26, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the Australian governments plan to combat climate change. Morr...

Swamps are a major carbon store. Their regeneration can help sequester vast amounts of carbon dioxide. Drain the swamp! It is an old cry. Swamps are badlands where malaria breeds, mists settle, tracks disappear, criminals lurk and bad things happen. Bog or mire, morass or swamp, ...

Rising temperatures have had devastating effects on the economy and other aspects of life in Greece. Messolonghi Lagoon, Greece Yiannis Theodoropoulos spends most of his time suspended half a metre above water. The 52-year-old fisherman, his 17-year-old son Alexis, and a hired h...

US lawmakers urged major oil firms to quit an oil industry trade group, and cut off funds to any groups that cast doubts over climate science. Executives from Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc were urged by U.S. lawmakers to abandon the leading oi...

Climate change is now compounding decades of water mismanagement and unsustainable farming practices in Greece. Thessaly, Greece The farmers of Ampelonas in central Greece are headed for financial ruin. Last July, as a series of heatwaves struck the country, their electricity wa...

New study finds human activity since 2001 has caused harm in even the worlds most protected forests. Humans and climate change have transformed 10 of the worlds most highly protected forests into net emitters of carbon over the past 20 years, according to a new report. Land clear...

UN chief says latest report a thundering wake-up call as leaders prepare for crucial Glasgow climate talks. Current commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on track for a catastrophic average 2.7-degree Celsius temperature rise this century, the United Nations ...

The kingdom announced plans to fight global warming, but acknowledged it will continue to extract and export its vast petroleum reserves. Under pressure to decarbonise, Saudi Arabia has announced a raft of measures to deal with the intensifying climate crisis, but critics say the...

Climate laggard commits to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 but will not improve its goal for 2030. Australia will commit to a target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 but will not improve its goal for 2030 at a crucial United Nations climate summit that begins on...

US administrations rhetoric on urgency of climate crisis does not match its actions, Sunrise Movement advocates say. Sitting in the sun across the street from the White House, 18-year-old Ema Govea holds a black and yellow sign saying she is on a hunger strike to demand action ag...

Reports by US White House, defence and intelligence agencies say climate change likely to increase global instability. The Biden administration has released a series of reports from US intelligence and security agencies sounding the alarm about the risks that the effects of clima...

UNEPs Production Gap report finds countries plan to produce some 110 percent more fossil fuels in 2030. The world needs to cut by more than half its production of coal, oil and gas in the coming decade to maintain a chance of keeping global warming from reaching dangerous levels,...

WMO report warns 1.3 billion people remain extremely vulnerable as the continent warms more and at a faster rate than global average. A new report by the United Nations has warned that more than 100 million extremely poor people across Africa are threatened by accelerating climat...

The demand highlights tensions between the worlds 20 largest economies and developing countries, which are bearing the brunt of the effects of global warming. African countries want a new system to track funding from wealthy nations that are failing to meet a $100bn annual target...

An exhibition looking at the legacy of colonialism and the role it played in the birth of climate change has opened in London. Eleven artists with a personal connection to Africa, the Caribbean and South America have pinpointed environmental change as a racial process, with dee...

The West should respond to Beijings pledge not to fund coal plants by pressuring its private sector to follow suit. In front of the worlds leaders at the United Nations General Assembly last month, Chinas President Xi Jinping pledged that his country will not build new coal-fired...

New report shows current pledges to cut greenhouse gases will not prevent global warming to extremely dangerous levels. Commitments to halt greenhouse gas emissions are currently nowhere near stopping the worst ravages of climate change in the years to come, a new report indicate...

Researchers comb through some 100,000 studies documenting climate changes effects around the planet. Climate change could already be affecting 85 percent of the worlds population, an analysis of tens of thousands of scientific studies found. The analysis, released on Monday, was ...

Tens of thousands of people rally demanding bolder action in fighting climate change weeks ahead of the UN climate summit. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Brussels to demand bolder action in fighting climate change at the United Nations climate summit startin...

The last Group of 20 (G20) nation to do so, Turkey had not ratified the landmark agreement for five years, arguing it should not be considered a developed country. Turkey ratified the Paris climate accord on Wednesday, joining the global fight against climate change weeks before ...

Plans to ratify the Paris climate agreement six years later are welcomed, but activists say major policy changes are needed. Istanbul, Turkey They dont care about the environment, they care about money, always money, says Nurcan Keskin, a retired teacher as she takes a break fro...

Climate change combined with overfishing, coastal development and declining water quality destroyed ecosystems home to at least a quarter of all marine animals and plants. Global warming helped wipe out 14 percent of the worlds coral reefs between 2009 and 2018, the largest-ever ...

Dozens of prominent religious figures from around the globe meet at the Vatican to demand world leaders take immediate moves. Dozens of religious leaders appealed to governments to commit to ambitious targets at the upcoming UN climate conference, which has been described by scie...

Madagascar is on the brink of famine because of its worst drought in 40 years. And a big reason for that is climate change. ...

Greta Thunberg led a Fridays for Future march in Milan after calling for swift change at the Youth4Climate conference. Hundreds of young people led by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg have marched in the Italian city of Milan to demand swift climate action, weeks before the crucia...

Dire forecasts of lower rainfall, higher temperatures and more frequent droughts mean Greece faces peril ahead. Athens, Greece Climate experts say last months wildfires that razed 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) of Greek forest are only a small sampling of the environmental and...

Island state with 280,000 people among more than a dozen Pacific island nations facing rising sea levels and more frequent storms. Vanuatu is asking the International Court of Justice to issue an opinion on the rights of present and future generations to be protected from the adv...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has told global leaders to grow up and tackle climate change, as the world faces a now-or-never moment to limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels. Johnson is due to host COP26 a crucial United Nations ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has said that China would no longer fund the construction of new coal-fired power projects overseas, surprising the world on climate for the second straight year at the United Nations General Assembly. China has supported coal projects in developing c...

Forcing wealthy nations to honour UN climate pledges will be a stretch, British PM Boris Johnson admitted on Sunday. Pressure is building on world leaders to rapidly ratchet up efforts to fight global climate change, a topic expected to top the agenda at the United Nations Genera...

Countries latest pledges to cut emissions would fail to avert disastrous climate change, UN report says. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has warned that a failure to cut global emissions is setting the world on a catastrophic path to 2.7 degrees Celsius heating. A UN report...

Study says climate change is accelerating in spite of a brief 2020 decrease in greenhouse emissions due to the pandemic. The pace of climate change has not been slowed by the global COVID-19 pandemic and the world remains behind in its battle to cut carbon emissions, according to...

Guterres said summit at risk of failure due to mistrust between developed and developing countries and a lack of ambitious goals among some emerging economies. A critical meeting on climate change later this year in Scotland is at risk of failure due to mistrust between developed...

World Bank warns climate migrants will be in the tens of millions in three decades even if urgent action is taken. Climate change could push more than 200 million people to leave their homes by 2050 unless urgent action is taken, the World Bank has warned. In a landmark report pu...

Over two dozen countries, including China, Russia, India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Qatar also expected to join the pledge. The United States and the European Union have agreed to try and cut emissions of the planet-warming gas methane by about one-third by the end of this decade ...

UN rights chief warns of the worsening ecological situation across the globe that must be urgently addressed. Environmental threats are worsening conflicts worldwide and will soon constitute the biggest challenge to human rights, the United Nations has warned. UN rights chief Mic...

More than 50 officials convening in Rotterdam call for Novembers COP26 climate talks to treat adaptation as urgent. On the heels of last months warning from the UN climate science panel that extreme weather and rising seas are hitting faster than expected, leaders have called for...

This episode is the second of a three-part series on climate change examining the impact of water, fire, and heat. Listen to the first episode discussing water here: Life Below Sea Level: Bangladesh and our climate future As the world tries to keep global temperatures from rising...

Beijing rebuffs US proposal to accelerate climate efforts, including public commitment to stop financing of coal-fired power plants. China and the United States have failed to reach an agreement on climate change, with Beijing rebuffing calls to make more public pledges on climat...

Wang Yi tells John Kerry that climate cooperation cannot be separated from wider environment of US-China relations. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has warned the United States that deteriorating ties between Beijing and Washington could undermine efforts to combat global warmin...

Conservation group says the number of threatened tree species is double the number of threatened mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles combined. Almost a third of the worlds tree species are at risk of extinction, while hundreds are on the brink of being wiped out, according to...

Number of extreme weather disasters shot up nearly fivefold from 1970s to most recent decade due to global warming. The number of weather disasters such as floods and heatwaves driven by climate change has increased fivefold during the past 50 years, killing more than two milli...

Current US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has drawn ire from Republicans for his policies regarding climate change, while progressives feel he hasnt gone far enough to address the crisis. Just call it bankerpalooza, virtual edition. On Friday, central bankers, finance minist...

As scientists raise alarm on global warming, the US is close to adopting sweeping green energy and emissions measures. The United States is preparing to adopt a raft of new energy policies that will for the first time put the US the worlds second-worst polluter after China on a...

Experts say Taiwan can no longer rely on typhoons and heavy rain to supply water and must find alternatives. Taipei, Taiwan Every year on May 8, the Japanese engineer Hatta Yochi is honoured as a deity for overseeing the construction of the Wushantou Reservoir and the Chianan Ir...

In Turkey, climate action is in a state of limbo. The forest fires that raged across the Mediterranean for the past few weeks have brought levels of devastation to the Southern coast of Turkey not seen in decades. With almost 300 blazes and a total scorched area that is nine time...

Officials called on populations served by the river to reduce water usage starting next year. United States officials declared the first-ever water shortage for the Colorado River, an arterial waterway that serves 40 million people in the countrys west, and called on the populati...

Alarming UN report blamed human activity for unprecedented changes to the climate. Humanity will experience more extreme weather in the coming years and it will suffer the consequences of rising sea levels and melting Arctic ice, scientists working from across the globe said in a...

UN chief says the prediction of quicker onset of global warming tipping point must sound a death knell for fossil fuels. A UN climate report that predicts quicker global warming than anticipated just three years ago must sound a death knell for coal, oil and gas and is code red f...

Scientists warn of catastrophic consequences if AMOC system, which influences weather worldwide, collapses. The Atlantic Oceans current system, an engine of the Northern Hemispheres climate, could be weakening due to climate change, which could have severe consequences for the wo...

Study shows hot weather is starting earlier and that more frequent heat waves are likely. Scorching temperatures are becoming much more frequent in cities across East Asia, an analysis from Greenpeace East Asia has found, with the environmental group warning that the early arriva...

On Wednesday, August 4 at 19:30GMT: Madagascar, the island nation off the southeast coast of Africa, is currently facing its worst drought in 40 years. More than a million people are food insecure, with more than 400,000 people facing famine. Thats according to the World Food Pro...

Researchers say overexploitation of the Earth has seen many of its vital signs deteriorate to record levels. Thousands of scientists have repeated calls for urgent action to tackle the climate emergency, warning that several tipping points are now imminent. The researchers, part ...

Ministers were unable to agree on timetables needed to reach net-zero global emissions by 2050 and keep global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to officials. Group of 20 ministers are likely to end talks this week without an ambitious deal on climate change, another setb...

Scientists warn wildfires, floods and heatwaves are becoming the norm. Scientists have long warned climate change will make extreme weather events more frequent. At least 150 people have died in what are being called once in a century floods across Germany, Belgium and the Nether...

The environmental degradation in Gaza should be an early warning for what is to come for the whole of the Levant. Located on the dividing line between the Mediterranean climate to its north and the desert to its south, Gaza was first settled as an oasis by the sea. It was built t...

Fossil fuel companies lied for decades about climate change, and humanity is paying the price. Shouldnt those lies be central to the public narrative? Every person on Earth today is living in a crime scene. This crime has been going on for decades. We see its effects in the horri...

Blazing temperatures raise concerns about effects of climate change as police say heat likely contributed to sudden deaths. Police in western Canada say extreme heat may be linked to dozens of sudden deaths, as the record temperatures prompted the province of British Columbia to ...

Indigenous land defender Nemonte Nenquimo discusses how climate change has altered the Amazon, the plant medicines used to help fight COVID-19, and the ancestral knowledge passed down by her elders. Puyo, Ecuador People from the outside [of Waorani territory] see empty land but ...

By employing corporate solutions for climate change, the EUs Green Deal will entrench further European neocolonial practices. Since the beginning of the year, the Amazon Rainforest, our largest tropical forest full of ecosystems essential to global climate regulation networks, ha...

Devastating climate effects from unliveable heat to more widespread disease are accelerating and will become obvious within 30 years, draft UN report says. A leaked draft report from the United Nations has painted a distressing picture of how climate change will fundamentally res...

After the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic, scientists warn point of no return on global warming may have already been reached. Global warning may have already passed an irreversible tipping point, the scientist who led the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic has warned. P...

Mass fish deaths have been observed with environmental experts warning of possible disease outbreak such as cholera. Balikesir, Turkey Omur Karisik has fished in Turkeys Sea of Marmara since he was 15 years old, just as his father did before him. But the water has been taken ove...

Why are most media outlets not giving the climate emergency the 24/7 coverage they provided for the COVID-19 pandemic? Veteran journalist Bill Moyers has told us the story of how Edward R Murrow, the pre-eminent US broadcast journalist of his time, insisted on covering what becam...

Land can be our greatest ally in fighting climate change, but first we need to restore it to full health. Humanity faces a herculean task to reverse climate change and protect the natural world that supports us. We must retool human society to live in harmony with nature all whi...

With Western oil majors pressured to cut emissions, state-owned oil firms will step in without those expectations. Climate activists who scored big against Western majors last week had some unlikely cheerleaders in the oil capitals of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Russia. Defeats i...

Scientists involved in the study warn heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures. More than one-third of the worlds heat deaths each year are directly due to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change. But ...

Environmental defeats against ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell show energy giants that fail to decarbonise aggressively could be forced to do so. Climate advocates scored two landmark victories this week in the United States and Europe, shifting the battle lines for how the oil i...

At the end of 2020, a record 55 million people had been forced to move within their countries due to extreme weather events. The number of new people forced to move within their own countries by climate disasters rose to the highest in at least a decade in 2020, more than three t...

A verdict holding oil companies liable for greenhouse gas emissions caused by the burning of fossil fuels they have extracted would be a landmark victory for environmental campaigners. A Dutch court verdict against Royal Dutch Shell Plc will determine whether it has a legal respo...

Latest data shows the Arctic is warming three times faster than anywhere else on the planet, putting summer ice at risk. Arctic countries have pledged to fight global warming, which is happening three times faster in the northern reaches of the earth than elsewhere and to preserv...

Spain is aiming to be climate neutral by 2050 at the latest, but Greenpeace says the law does not go far enough. Spains parliament has approved a clean energy bill aimed at achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 in line with European Union targets, while also banning the sale of fos...

Rising river salinity is forcing rice farmers to switch to lucrative shrimp but the move threatens fragile mangrove ecosystems. For years, Ta Thi Thanh Thuy toiled on a sliver of land sandwiched between the Mekong River and the South China Sea, a region widely known as Vietnams r...

NOAA report on new normals in climate over the past decade shows a hotter US, thanks to climate change. The United States is getting warmer and parts of it are getting wetter, according to weather data released on Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NO...

In the deserts of Muthanna province, nomadic herders paint a grim picture an increasingly uninhabitable environment. Al Bussaya, Muthanna Province, Iraq The wind whipped relentlessly across the open deserts of Muthanna province as Ali Thajeel moved his camel herd along the rugge...

US president wants to cut countrys gas emissions in half by 2030 from the 2005 level, while Chinese leader sets limits on coal consumption. US President Joe Biden has opened an international climate summit saying that the United States isnt waiting to lead on an issue of moral an...

The worlds top cryptocurrency has a massive carbon footprint, but ARK Invest says Bitcoin could boost investment in renewables. Pushing back against climate activists concerned about Bitcoins carbon footprint, the head of research at Cathie Woods ARK Invest is arguing that the wo...

Nobel laureates urge world leaders to invest in a plan that could allow economies to diversify away from oil, coal and gas. More than 100 Nobel laureates, including the Dalai Lama, have signed a letter calling on world leaders to take action and tackle the climate crisis while al...

Since Earth Day the annual day for the environment started being observed, global warming has dramatically worsened. Could carbon pricing be a silver bullet? Looking back over the past five decades, theres been a fairly steady descent into our current climate crisis as ballooni...

The export of hydrocarbons must end. President Biden can lead the way by kicking off a fossil fuel phaseout in the US. At the age of 22, Marielle Bacason experienced something that would change her life forever. In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines with record ferocity, ki...

US president opens global climate summit with the ambitious goal, with details of how it will be achieved. President Joe Biden has opened a global climate summit with a pledge to cut at least in half the climate-wrecking coal and petroleum fumes that the United States pumps out, ...

US president hosts virtual summit to set global emission targets. United States President Joe Bidens Earth Day message is clear: America is back to lead the fight against climate change. Biden is hoping to restore US credibility by hosting a virtual summit with 40 of the worlds b...

The cost of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 could climb to $2.5 trillion over 10 years for the US alone, according to one estimate. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said private financing, and not just government spending, will be needed to tackle the existential threa...

UN says world is running out of time to tackle the climate crisis, with 2020 one of the three hottest years on record. Time is fast running out to tackle the climate crisis, a United Nations report has warned, with the COVID-19 pandemic having failed to put the brakes on relentle...

The US and China agree on the need for stronger climate commitments before the new round of international talks in Glasgow. China and the United States, the worlds two biggest carbon polluters, have agreed to cooperate with other countries to fight climate change. The joint state...

On Monday, April 19 at 19:30 GMT: Ever-more frequent extreme weather events have in recent years devastated rural regions in developing countries, with millions of people having to start from scratch after losing everything in storms, droughts and floods. But while these short, s...

The shocking exposure of a multi-million-dollar, 30-year denial campaign that has undermined science and cast doubt on the dangers of climate change. These days, one might hope that the world sees what is happening to the climate as a serious global crisis but that is not always...

Author Naomi Klein and politician Kshama Sawant discuss why global mass movements are key to tackling climate change. In an UpFront special, we ask whether capitalism and climate justice are compatible. Marc Lamont Hill discusses with guests Naomi Klein, the author of On Fire: Th...

As livelihoods diminish in the worlds largest delta, activists report a spike in cases of child marriage due to poverty. Sagar Island, India In April last year, 17-year-old Rani Khatun, a resident of Sagar Island in the Sundarbans, would spend most of her day in school, preparin...

Our job is to make sure that financial institutions, banks, particularly the largest ones, understand and are able to manage the significant risks that they take, US Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in an interview with the Economic Club of Washington, DC. Federal Reserve Chair Jerom...

New Zealand says banks and insurers of a certain size will have to report how they manage climate-related risks. New Zealand has become the first country to introduce legislation that will require banks, insurers and investment managers to report the effects of climate change on ...

New joint venture aims to raise billions of dollars for firms that help reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Two of the worlds most powerful money managers are joining forces to build a business on climate-change investing and raise one of the largest venture-capital funds dedicate...

This moment in history is a real moment of opportunity. From melting glaciers to rising sea levels and sinking homes, Al Jazeeras Environment Correspondent Nick Clark takes us through his experience covering the climate crisis. Despite the challenges ahead, he explains why there ...

John Kerry says US president plans to order firms to reveal climate change risks, as IMF launches climate dashboard. Requiring financial institutions and companies to disclose climate change risks will trigger huge shifts in capital investments around the world, says United State...

The new initiative would focus on systematically changing whole economies, a source tells Reuters. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are planning to launch a platform to advise poor countries on funding climate and conservation activities, amid a broader pu...

While many environmental groups see big steps in the right direction with US President Joe Bidens $2.25 trillion plan, some progressives say the proposal is not ambitious enough. At first glance, United States President Joe Bidens giant American Jobs Plan seems like an environmen...

A new study shows more than a fifth of global food output growth has been lost to climate change since the 1960s, while an estimated 34 million people live on the brink of famine. Climate change has been holding back food production for decades, with a new study showing that abou...

New policy aims to align funding with climate goals but does not promise to stop financing fossil fuels: Reuters A revised World Bank policy on climate change commits to making financing decisions in line with efforts to limit global warming but stops short of promising to halt t...

Two-thirds of respondents say economic benefits from net-zero emissions by 2050 would outweigh the cost of achieving it. A growing number of climate economists say the world should take immediate and drastic action to tackle climate change, according to a survey published Tuesday...

Large economies have pledged at least $292bn in COVID relief for fossil-fuel intensive industries, researchers say. Rising oil prices are testing the developing worlds resolve to quit fossil fuels. The president of Brazil has fired the chief of the countrys largest oil producer ...

Biden will host world leaders to outline how their countries will reduce carbon emissions to meet a global 2030 goal. The United States has invited China and Russia to be among 40 nations to participate in a global summit on climate change in April, President Joe Biden said on Fr...

US central bank will invest in research and modelling to get a handle on how climate events can threaten the economy. The Federal Reserve plans to make climate change a major part of its Wall Street oversight by creating a new committee that will identify and respond to dangers a...

In a virtual policy conference, 54 percent of the partys delegates vote against adding climate change is real to policy book. Members of Canadas main opposition Conservative Party have rejected a proposed change to their policy book that would recognise that climate change is rea...

UK plans to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while boosting jobs and repairing economic damage due to COVID-19. The United Kingdom says it plans to invest one billion pounds ($1.39bn) to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals as part of wider green revolution d...

Carbon prices must climb 600 percent to deter industries from emitting gases that cause global warming: Wood Mackenzie. A significant rise in carbon pricing is needed to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global temperatures to within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahren...

Ahead of UN climate summit, small island states and UK warn of ongoing threats to stability as global temperatures rise. United States President Joe Biden says that he and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have agreed to work towards achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Wer...

Our heads in the sand at our own peril, US envoy for climate warns, as leaders discuss security implications of global warming. The United States has warned inaction by world powers on climate change is tantamount to a mutual suicide pact after countries such as China, India, and...

The decision follows power outages in Texas due to an extreme cold snap that left millions of people without electricity. Federal energy regulators in the United States say they will examine threats that climate change and extreme weather events pose to the countrys electric reli...

Democrats blame climate change for the historic freeze, but Republicans say clean energy worsened the crisis. This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America, Texas Governor Greg Abbott told Fox News host Sean Hannity during an interview ...

A new scientific blueprint for tackling climate change, pollution and the accelerating loss of plant and animal species shows how to end the worlds suicidal war on nature, UN chief Antonio Guterres has said. Humanity is waging war on nature. This is senseless and suicidal, Guterr...

The pandemic presents us with a great opportunity to do away with the destructive mass tourism industry. As we draw closer to the anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic, many are hopeful that the vaccine roll-out will help us retur...

Disha Ravi has been charged with sedition for creating and sharing an online document to support the ongoing farmers protest in India. Indian police have arrested a 22-year-old activist linked to Swedish climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg and charged her with sedition, sayi...

Bill Gates says governments and investors need to find ways to reduce emissions from steel- and cement-making. US billionaire Bill Gates exudes optimism in discussing the worlds ability to tackle climate change until he hits on manufacturing. About that, he is worried. There is ...

Florists in Paris are trying to convince their customers to choose locally grown flowers over roses, which must be flown in and contribute to carbon emissions. It is the classic romantic combination: Valentines Day and a bouquet of red roses. But some Parisian florists are trying...

Of the $14.9 trillion in public stimulus spending to offset the effects of the pandemic, $1.8 trillion is being used for green purposes, the study finds. Huge amounts of post-pandemic stimulus packages are mostly failing to support action to tackle climate change or halt the loss...

Rollback of environmental protections and politicising of COVID pandemic led to thousands of excess deaths: The Lancet. The Trump administration deliberately harnessed racism and class animosity to push policies that caused hundreds of thousands of U.S. deaths, according to a sca...

Joe Biden has asked officials to submit report on climate-related displacement and migration, a move welcomed by advocates. Guatemala City, Guatemala The United States government plans to analyse the effects of climate change on migration, including potential legal protections ...

Experts tasked by Indias Supreme Court to study impact of receding glaciers on dams had warned the government in 2014 itself. When Ravi Chopra saw the devastating deluge of water and debris crash downstream from a Himalayan glacier on Sunday, his first thought was that this was e...

Lack of snow leaves hotel rooms empty and impacts crops as Nepal heats up at the rate of 0.6 degrees Celsius per decade. Over the 12 years that Baburam Giri has worked as a hotel cook in the village of Dhampus a major tourist draw with its views of the towering Annapurna mountai...

Landmark case backed by more than two million citizens saw NGOs accuse state of failure to take sufficient measures to halt climate change. A French court on Wednesday held the state responsible for its failure to take sufficient measures to halt climate change, handing a victory...

As the US rejoins the Paris Agreement, richer nations are failing to meet financial commitments to help poorer countries adapt to climate change. Wholesale derision greeted a spectacularly clueless statement from Republican Senator Ted Cruz last week, after President Joe Biden co...

The ambitious orders establish Bidens environmental agenda and mark a reversal from his predecessor Donald Trump. US President Joe Biden has signed a new batch of executive actions placing the climate crisis back on the United States government agenda and elevates science to pres...

A cutting-edge survey used mobile gaming apps in 17 languages to ask 1.2 million people about their views on climate change. The largest global survey on climate change ever conducted has found that 64 percent of people believe that it is an emergency and must be addressed urgent...

Rate of loss rose from 0.8 trillion tonnes per year in the 1990s to 1.3 trillion tonnes per year by 2017, with potentially disastrous consequences. The rate at which ice is disappearing across the world matches worst-case climate warming scenarios, UK scientists have warned in ne...

In Pictures Global warming has dried up water resources in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in southeastern Bangladesh, forcing thousands of Indigenous tribal people out of their traditional settlements. While rural and coastal areas have already borne the brunt of floods and cyclones,...

Researchers say rich nations are not doing enough to help developing countries with the deadly fallout from global warming. Almost half a million people have been killed in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, with the worlds poorest countries ...

British PM looks forward to deepening alliance with the US in first phone call with Biden since his inauguration. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday he looked forward to working with US President Joe Biden on their shared goals, including tackling climate chang...

Carbon emissions blamed for Australias hotter and drier condition, increasing the risk of more droughts and bushfires. Australias government is in no rush to sign up to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050, although it recognises the importance of working towards that go...

Joe Biden reverses Trumps decision to withdraw the US the worlds second-largest greenhouse gas emitter from the climate change accord. World leaders and diplomats have welcomed newly elected US President Joe Bidens decision to rejoin the 2015 Paris agreement, with the new admin...

Hours after he was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden took steps to undo some of President Donald Trumps environmental policies. United States President Joe Biden took steps to return the US to the international Paris Agreement to fight climate change ...

Global temperatures in 2020 were among the highest on record and rivalled 2016 as the hottest year ever. The world is on course for a catastrophic temperature rise this century, the United Nations has warned. Global temperatures in 2020 were among the highest on record and it riv...

The largest 100 companies in the ocean economy can play a major role in climate and ocean action. We cannot have a healthy planet without a healthy ocean, but the health of the ocean is now in a clearly observable decline. It is folly to imagine we can solve the global challenges...

Mondays summit is expected to launch a critical year for efforts to stem the devastating effects of global warming. Global leaders will try to reignite international environmental diplomacy on Monday with a biodiversity summit that launches a critical year for efforts to stem the...

Scientists say the latest data underscores the need for countries and corporations to slash greenhouse gas emissions quickly. Last year tied with 2016 as the worlds warmest year on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the impacts of climate change intensified, the ...

Finland is committed to carbon-cutting targets in the battle against climate change but will its dependence on peat as a fossil fuel stand in the way? Finland has set itself one of the worlds most ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets, promising to go carbon neutral by 2035....

Why does Australia act as if it can ignore the climate crisis, and how long can it keep to this seemingly suicidal posture? 2020 has had no shortage of images of catastrophe and suffering, but the ones that haunt me the most are from the inferno that engulfed my home country, Aus...

After the challenges of the last year, 2021 must be a year of climate action that helps us reshape and restore the planet and our place in it. As we stumble into 2021, it was salutary to read of an inspiring wildlife encounter experienced by the famous naturalist and broadcaster,...

A new report by charity Christian Aid found nine of the worst natural disasters of 2020 caused damages of more than $5bn each. Disasters fuelled by weather and climate extremes brought catastrophic results for millions across rich and poor nations in 2020, causing thousands of de...

US President-elect Joe Biden says cabinet nominees will lead ambitious environmental plan after years of Trump rollbacks. United States President-elect Joe Biden has officially introduced several key cabinet nominees that he says will help his incoming administration tackle the c...

Anger comes as new research shows almost half of News Corps output in Australia rejects or doubts scientific findings on climate change. Canberra, Australia The skies were dark red with smoke over much of southeastern Australia on January 1, 2020, yet News Corps The Australian p...

Antonio Guterres urges countries that already announced net-zero targets to make good on promises at the one-day virtual Climate Ambition Summit. The United Nations chief has called on world leaders to declare states of climate emergency in their countries to spur action to avoid...

The fifth anniversary of the Paris climate accord highlights the lack of global progress on cutting carbon emissions. World leaders signed the Paris Climate Agreement five years ago to cut carbon emissions and stop global temperature rises. However, the last five years have been ...

Ottawa says the plan will help it meet its climate goals, but some environmental groups say it does not go far enough. Canada will increase a tax on carbon emissions in a push to meet its commitment to fight climate change, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Friday, drawi...

After all-night talks, EU agrees on more ambitious target to cut greenhouse gas emissions this decade. European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal on Friday to cut the blocs greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels, ...

As we prepare to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, governments trying to mitigate the effect of COVID-19 are digging us deeper into the climate crisis. Today, people on Scotlands picturesque Uist islands are living in fear as rapidly rising sea levels threat...

International Union for Conservation of Nature report says more than a third of worlds heritage sites are of significant concern or critical. The health of Australias Great Barrier Reef, the worlds most extensive coral reef ecosystem, is in a critical state and deteriorating as c...

Antonio Guterres says recovery from the coronavirus pandemic could be humanitys chance for a reset to save the planet. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has denounced a suicidal failure to tackle climate change and said recovery from the coronavirus pandemic could...

New Zealand pledges carbon-neutral government by 2025, announces $141m fund to finance electric or hybrid vehicles and replace coal boilers. New Zealand has declared a climate emergency and promised to make its public sector carbon neutral by 2025. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern t...

Just like COVID-19, climate change is destroying lives and ruining livelihoods on a daily bases across the world. The pressing need to develop a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine and make it available to everyone everywhere to bring an end to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic re...

Biden has pledged to reverse the course on climate from President Donald Trump, who doubts mainstream climate science. Joe Biden named former Secretary of State John Kerry as the special climate envoy, a sign the president-elect is putting global warming at the centre of his fore...

World Meteorological Organization data crush hopes that lockdowns across the world would have pushed emissions to a record low. Carbon dioxide levels hit new highs last year and are expected to keep growing in 2020, despite coronavirus-related restrictions that forced a global in...

Red Cross says the world has been hit by more than 100 climate change-related disasters since the WHO declared the pandemic. The world should react with the same urgency to climate change as is to the coronavirus crisis, the Red Cross says, warning that global warming poses a gre...

Bidens Treasury pick will have to cope with a recession and also help address inequality and climate change. Incoming United States Treasury secretaries have been confronted over the past two decades with the financial rescue of other countries, the bailout of the US banking syst...

Joe Biden will be the fourth US president that Merkel who has led Germany since 2005 has dealt with as chancellor. The US and Germany must stand side by side in handling the coronavirus pandemic, fighting global warming and terrorism, and in working for an open global economy a...

A shortage of glass is making solar panels more expensive and delaying production, hurting Chinas top manufacturers. The worlds biggest solar power company says a shortage of glass is raising costs and delaying production of new panels, throwing a wrench into Chinas plans to acce...

The departure makes the US the only country among 197 signatories to withdraw from the agreement, hashed out in 2015. The United States has formally exited the Paris Agreement, fulfilling an old promise by President Donald Trump to withdraw the worlds second-largest greenhouse ga...

Looking back on the last five years of UN climate talks, many fear a Trump re-election will halt efforts to end global warming. In just two days, millions of American voters will head to the polls to decide where the United States stands on the fight against climate change. While...

Experts say the results of the upcoming United States election will be critical in setting the course for global climate action. For countries hoping to avoid the worst of climate change, next months United States presidential election will be pivotal in determining the course of...

The urgency of tackling climate change seems, finally, to be sinking in. Fear-mongering is understandably in fashion this year, with prophets of doom having no shortage of new material to draw upon. But amid the endlessly bleak portents of our collective future birds falling out...

New research finds corals on vast Australian reef increasingly unable to recover from heat-caused bleaching. Half the corals on Australias Great Barrier Reef have died over the past 25 years, scientists said Wednesday, warning that climate change is irreversibly destroying the Wo...

Report by UN body says 6,681 climate-linked events recorded since the turn of the century, up from 3,656 during the previous 20 years. Political and business leaders worldwide are failing to stop the planet turning into an uninhabitable hell for millions of people, the United Nat...

On Thursday, September 24 at 19:30 GMT: People have the power thats the message from musician and writer Patti Smith. She has joined Jesse Paris Smith and Rebecca Foon, co-founders of climate change solutions NGO Pathway To Paris , in a push to ensure the UN-backed Paris Agreeme...

We have no choice but to address the humanitarian impact of the coronavirus crisis and climate change at the same time. The views expressed in this video are the authors own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeeras editorial stance. ...

Connecticut the latest state to sue over allegations fossil fuel industry deceived public about climate change effects. Connecticut filed a lawsuit on Monday against oil giant ExxonMobil Corp for misleading the public over the effects of climate change, becoming the latest state ...

How a culture and history of resilience is inspiring Pacific islanders in their fight against cyclones and rising seas. There is nothing like certainty in uncertain times. Every September, the northern summer folds into autumn, the southern winter blooms into spring. The leaves f...

Increasingly dry conditions in arid western US states are making wildfires bigger and tougher to contain, expert says. San Francisco, United States As deadly wildfires continue to burn in the US, from the Pacific Northwest down to the California-Mexico border, LeRoy Westerling h...

Earths warming has already increased the odds of extreme events that are unprecedented in our historical experience. The world is getting closer to passing a temperature limit set by global leaders five years ago and may exceed it in the next decade or so, according to a new Unit...

Charleston is the first city in the American South to sue fossil fuel firms in an effort to get climate change funds. Charleston is now the first city in the American South to sue major oil companies in an attempt to hold them accountable for the daunting costs of climate change,...

New report suggests forgiving the debts of some of the worlds poorest countries could help them fight climate change. In Kenya, the coronavirus pandemic has dried up ecotourism, cutting off sources of funding that help protect wildlife and pay an income to communities working to ...

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the agency will push deregulation as a priority in Trumps possible second term. The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday accused Democrats of hurting the poor with policies aimed at fighting climate change, and said t...

Ancient redwood trees have adapted to survive forest fires, but how will they hold up to climate change? You would think that nothing could survive the devastation wrought by the all-engulfing infernos in California this month. But something has. While it will mean little to thos...

Firms like TSMC and Foxconn are installing solar panels and buying power from offshore wind farms to meet Apple targets. Apple Inc. has gone carbon neutral. But in order to say the same for its flagship iPhone, its going to need help from Taiwan. More than three-quarters of the e...

Muslims already have an environmentalist framework to follow. It is set in Islam. Many Muslim majority countries bear the brunt of climate change, but their cultural awareness of it and climate action are often staggeringly limited. A movement of Islamic environmentalism based on...

Defunding the police is crucial, but we must avoid obvious traps along the way. Since the murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minnesota on May 25, calls to reform, defund, and even abolish the police have taken centre stage in the United States. In response to mass civil...

Kamala Harris makes history as US vice presidential candidate, but barriers remain for women in power around the world. When Satsuki Katayama was appointed as the sole female minister in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abes new cabinet in 2018, she immediately came face-to-face wi...

Demas Nwokos structures are a model of culturally relevant and sustainable African design. In the Igbo town of Idumuje-Ugboko in southeast Nigeria, artist and architect Demas Nwoko reports to his home office Monday through Friday. The room is cool, softly lit and furnished with h...

Rescuers searching for missing person as dozens are evacuated after storms devastate central island of Evia. Heavy rains and thunderstorms have caused flash flooding on the central Greek island of Evia, killing at least seven people including a baby. Fire brigade officials said o...

Data from Brazils space agency suggests fires in the Amazon are on track for a seven percent increase over last year. Fires in the Brazilian Amazon have surged far in August, government data on Friday showed, outstripping the same period of 2019 and renewing concerns about the de...

Over 2,200 new daily infections were reported in France as the US surpassed more than 160,000 deaths. France has recorded over 2,200 confirmed coronavirus infections, a new daily record since the lockdown was lifted in June. The total number of United States coronavirus deaths su...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a wake-up call to address climate change once and for all. When children start suing governments for inaction on climate change, as they have in South Korea , Pakistan , India and several other countries, it is time to sit up and take notice. The climate ...

Fires in Brazilian Amazon rise 28 percent, fuelling fears the worlds biggest rainforest will again be devastated. The number of fires in Brazils Amazon rainforest jumped 28 percent in July from a year ago, official data shows, as environmentalists warned a jump this week could si...

As mountain gorillas number more than 1,000 and Indias tiger populations rebound, recovery efforts reap their rewards. As we mark World Conservation Day this week, it is a good time for some heartening news from the environmental world, which shows how the determined efforts of t...

How fundamentally different views about climate change and a green economy could influence voters in the 2020 election. As wildfires raged across California late last year, scorching more than 100,000 acres and driving tens of thousands from their homes, US President Donald Trump...

Desperate families in the Sahelian country are plagued by a double burden that has left many displaced and destitute. Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso Growing up in a community of farmers in northern Burkina Faso, KI, who prefers that his full name not be used for safety reasons, never ...

Lawsuit claims bond investors should be made aware of climate change risks to Australias ability to repay its debts. A 23-year-old student has filed a lawsuit against Australias government alleging it has failed to disclose climate change-related risks to investors in the country...

Deal reached by EU leaders earmarks 30 percent of package for climate protection, but cuts key climate programmes. European Union leaders clinched a deal on Tuesday for a huge stimulus package that the European Commission said will make fighting climate change central to Europes ...

Lawsuit is latest in series of legal challenges targeting fossil fuel firms for their alleged role in global warming. The state of Minnesota on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute (API), Exxon Mobil Corp and Koch Industries for what it called a deca...

The lawsuit brought by District of Columbias attorney general comes a day after Minnesota filed a similar lawsuit. The attorney general for the District of Columbia on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp, BP Plc, Chevron Corp, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc for systemati...

The executive producer of Al Jazeeras award-winning environmental solutions series, earthrise, shares her top picks. On June 5, 1972, delegates from 114 countries gathered in Stockholm for a landmark United Nations conference, the first-ever to focus on the environment. Some key ...

Plans for a green post-coronavirus recovery that ignore the Global South cannot tackle the climate crisis. As countries in the Global North move past the peak of the novel coronavirus pandemic and start to gradually reopen their economies, the talk of a Green New Deal and a green...

Observers caution against inaction due to the delay, with the UN warning that time is not on the planets side. Critical United Nations climate negotiations, at which nations were expected to ramp up plans to combat global warming, have been pushed back a full year to November 202...

Cyclones in the Pacific and pandemics tell us a lot about global inequality and highlight our futile pursuit of profit. In the midst of economic shocks and border closures caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Pacific region has yet again been ravaged by a Category 5 cyclone th...

There are signs of wildlife flourishing in the absence of humans, but COVID-19 has also slowed conservation efforts. In these times when we need to seek out positives to counter the gloom, there are many good things happening in the natural world. In the space wrought open by COV...

Social transformation is slow. It can take decades to change hearts and minds. But that is time we no longer have. We are living in an age of climate crisis, with its resulting fires, floods, warming oceans, ecological breakdown, mass extinctions, epidemics, and political and soc...

Many countries response to COVID-19 has been fragmented and ineffective, much like our approach to climate change. New York University climate economist Gernot Wagner called coronavirus climate change on warp speed. He is right, and the global response to coronavirus paints a ble...

The executive producer of Al Jazeeras award-winning environmental solutions series, earthrise, shares her top picks. Today is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans rallied to demand protection for the environment. The hope is that, today, many...

Economic disruptions caused by COVID-19 lockdowns present a unique environmental moment for action on climate change. Coronavirus-induced constraints on public and private budgets threaten the Paris Climate Agreement and its environmental goals embraced by a majority of countries...

Young people questioned by police after sharing photos of themselves criticising oil companies on social media. Singapore On 13 March, Wong J-min skipped school and headed to a glass-walled tower at the Harbourfront complex on Singapores west coast. While her peers sat in their ...

Therefore, climate action should be central to our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The speed and scope of the coronavirus outbreak have taken world governments by surprise and left the stock market reeling. Since the virus first appeared in Chinas Hubei province, it has infect...

Having suffered poor harvests due to drought, Lupane small-scale farmers find solutions in climate-smart agriculture. Lupane, Zimbabwe For decades, Linda Ncube, a small-scale farmer in northwestern Zimbabwe, relied on the water that flowed from Tshongokwe dam into dug-out trench...

Last seen three million years ago, the amount of the Earths warming will get greater, even if it falls again. The Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2019 has been issued by the World Meteorological Office . It stated 2019 ended with a global average temperature of 1....

COVID-19 is slowing economies and emissions, and experts say greener criteria could help avert future outbreaks. With the rapid spread of the coronavirus beyond China, the president of the United States is hoping that spring temperatures will halt the contagion in its tracks the ...

Demonstrators led by Greta Thunberg say global governments have raised more alarm over virus than climate emergency. Protesters at a rally led by climate activist Greta Thunberg on Friday denounced governments for taking urgent action against the coronavirus outbreak but failing ...

Global warming may hurt Mexico more than many other countries. At least 9,000 years ago, humans began domesticating corn for the first time near Tehuacan, in the central Mexican state of Puebla, laying the foundation for permanent settlements in the Americas. But in the past few ...

Evidence suggests that environmental disasters could lead to earlier marriages in the communities gravely affected. After Cyclone Idai battered southern Malawi last year, the hotline Weston Msowoya manages was flooded with calls. They were reporting cases of young girls being mar...

Worlds richest man is on the growing list of billionaires giving substantial money to fight global warming. Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos will commit $10bn to fund scientists, activists, nonprofits and other groups fighting to protect the environment and counter the e...

Despite devastating fires, the Australian government is actively opposing any moves to limit climate damage. Growing up in a small town in Tasmania, Australia, not far from the coast, every summer we would spend seemingly endless carefree days at the beach swimming, sunbathing a...

Macron visits melting glacier, but opponents decry it as an electoral stunt. Frances leader on Thursday called the battle against climate change and environmental destruction the fight of the century, after visiting a melting glacier in the French Alps. But President Emmanuel Mac...

A recent court verdict could affect Indigenous rights in Sweden and beyond. In late January, the Indigenous Saami reindeer-herding community, Girjas, won a significant legal battle against the Swedish state. The Swedish Supreme Court legally recognised the Indigenous communitys a...

Lawmakers advocate planting one trillion trees to help remove carbon from the air. United States Republican lawmakers on Wednesday are set to unveil their remedy for tackling climate change and it does not include cutting emissions by reducing dependence on fossil fuels. Instead...

The climate denialism of the rich and powerful is increasing the suffering of the poor and marginalised communities. It will be a long hot summer in Australia. Fires of almost biblical proportions have swept across the country, devastating land, property and wildlife. More than 3...

Climate change is an existential threat to humanity and as such, should be included in legislation on asylum seeking. Despite recent and increasing efforts by the United States and other governments to narrow their interpretations of the refugee definition and to shirk their prot...

Despite publics desire for action on climate change, media giant News Corp continues to give space to deniers. Canberra, Australia Australias worst-ever bushfires have thrust climate change into the political spotlight, but one of the countrys most powerful media conglomerates c...

Young, renowned activist slams what she says is inaction of world leaders amid World Economic Forum in Davos. Activist Greta Thunberg has slammed what she says is the inaction of world leaders on climate change . Al Jazeeras Jonah Hull reports from the World Economic Forum in Dav...

Richer countries may become a rising source of refugees as climate change forces people to flee their countries. The world needs to prepare for a surge in refugees with potentially millions of people being driven from their homes by the impact of climate change, the United Nation...

The BIS urges greater global mobilization of government resources to contain financial fallout from climate change. Utter the term black swan in financial circles and it will conjure images of an economic catastrophe triggered by a rare event people should have seen coming, if on...

The platypus has disappeared from as much as 40 percent of its historical range due to changes wrought by humans. Prolonged drought and other effects of climate change are pushing the duck-billed platypus, one of Australias most unique species, towards extinction, scientists warn...

CDP names 179 firms as business leaders in transparency and action as Japan surpasses US in number of top companies. Of 8,000 companies given climate action scores from A to F, just 179 or two percent received the top grade in a new survey published on Monday. CDP , a global no...

A much less costly way to regenerate our forests and decrease carbon levels is to assist nature to do its job. Last year, the journal Science published a study that made a bold and elegantly simple claim: To mitigate climate change, plant a trillion new trees. Authored by a tea...

Court says plaintiffs, who were right to 19 years old, lacked the legal standing to sue the US. A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a lawsuit by children and young adults who claimed they had a constitutional right to be protected from climate change , in a major setback ...

Extreme weather, biodiversity loss could disrupt global economy in next 10 years if no action is taken, new report says. Environmental disasters are by far the biggest risks facing the world over the next ten years, posing a significant threat to social and economic stability, ac...

Scientists issue dire message on warming oceans as carbon emissions rise. Our oceans are heating up quickly. In 2019, sea temperatures were the highest on record, about 0.075C above the 1981-2010 average. Warmer seas mean more intense storms, droughts, floods and wildfires. Ocean...

Consumer preferences for SUVs could offset the benefits from electric cars: the International Energy Agency. Soaring demand for SUVs drove record sales last year for premium automakers including BMW and Mercedes, leaving the industry on a collision course with government efforts ...

Hard facts about global warming a defining issue of our time. Climate change is happening now, and even world leaders meeting for climate talks at this years COP25 know we are not doing enough to stop it. In fact, we are going backwards. The United Nations says carbon dioxide le...

Chinas central bank will also analyse how policymakers should respond to climate change, its deputy governor said. Chinas central bank has joined the global conversation on managing the risks of climate change, saying itll study the impact on the financial sector and regulatory f...

Experts say Australia is on front line of the climate crisis and the government has to do more to tackle problem. Sydney, Australia Australias government is resisting growing calls for a more ambitous response to climate change , even as the country battles devastating bushfires...

The bank expects to benefit from loans, deals and arrangements that will focus on financing sustainable projects. Goldman Sachs Group Inc outlined plans on Monday to put money and advice towards projects that fight climate change or help financially disadvantaged people, with exe...

Final declaration called for fresh proposals on pledges on reducing carbon emissions to be in place by COP26. Madrid, Spain After lengthy negotiations, d elegations from nearly 200 countries at the COP25 climate summit have reached an agreement on stepping up the global response...

After two weeks of negotiations, delegates from almost 200 nations passed declarations that were criticised as too weak. Environmental groups and activists accused the worlds richest countries of showing little commitment to seriously tackling climate change after marathon talks ...

The bloc is laying out its environmental goals for the next 30 years. Climate change was top of the agenda at the first European Council summit for new president Charles Michel and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. The bloc is laying out its environmental goals ...

Climate change is impacting 40 percent of the annual US fish and shellfish catch. Climate change is causing chaos in the Bering Sea, home to one of the United States largest fisheries. That chaos is an example of how rising temperatures can rapidly change ecosystems important to ...

People aged between 18 and 25 are increasingly concerned about climate change, global survey reveals. Madrid, Spain Climate change is one of the most pressing issues for Generation Z, according to a global survey backed by Amnesty International. Published on Tuesday, and coincid...

The case was the first of several climate change lawsuits against major oil companies to go to trial. A judge on Tuesday ruled in favour of Exxon Mobil Corp in a lawsuit brought by New York state accusing the oil company of hiding from investors the true cost of addressing climat...

Spains desertification puts it on the front lines of the fight against climate change. Madrid, Spain With higher-than-average increases in temperature, steadily advancing desertification and rising risks of drought and sea flooding, few would disagree that Spain is on the front ...

Not only are livelihoods disrupted by climate change, entire countries are left behind in tech progress, says report. A new generation of global inequalities driven by climate change and technology could trigger violence and political instability if left unchecked, the United Nat...

Why some indigenous Alaskans are fleeing their ancestral land as it crumbles beneath them. After centuries of living on their ancestral land, rising river levels have forced a group of indigenous Alaskans to abandon their homes. Climate change has triggered stronger storms causin...

The Green New Deal will not work unless it dismantles neocolonial structures exploiting nature and people. Discussions of a Green New Deal (GND) have been all the rage these days, as hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets around the world to demand action on climate chan...

The Canadian prime minister faces first test after his Liberals lost the majority in Octobers election. Toronto, Canada Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday called for action on climate change , but it did not explicitly mention oil or pipelines, offending Conserva...

Report says 285 companies are meeting science-based targets by cutting 265 million tonnes of emissions. A long list of 285 companies with combined greenhouse gas pollution that totals more than that of France and Spain put together have committed to cutting 265 million tonnes o...

Rebeca Sabnam, 16, highlights risks Bangladeshi women and Rohingya face due to climate change as COP25 gets under way. World leaders have come together in Madrid, Spain, for the UN Climate Change Conference, COP25 , where they will deliberate on the environmental crisis facing hu...

UN chief says world risks sleepwalking past point of no return unless immediate action is taken on climate change. Madrid, Spain United Nations leaders and delegates kicked off COP25 on Monday in Madrid, launching a two-week summit on climate change with warnings over the fast-r...

The economic worth of the whole river basin is estimated at $7bn annually from tourism to agriculture. Africa is already struggling with the effects of climate change. And it is the water supply that is especially at risk. Al Jazeeras Nick Clark reports from Kenya. ...

Antonio Guterres said effect of rising temperatures is already being felt around the world. The worlds efforts to stop climate change have been utterly inadequate so far and there is a danger that global warming could pass the point of no return, United Nations Secretary-General ...

Paris climate deal will be a key issue as some 25,000 delegates convene for the annual UN conference in Madrid. Madrid, Spain As alarm bells ring ever louder worldwide over climate change , some 25,000 delegates will meet for the next two weeks in Spain for COP25 , the annual Un...

Demonstrations in 2,300 cities in 153 countries attempt to pressure leaders before the UN climate summit in Madrid. Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied in cities across the world, demanding more action on climate change and aiming to force political leaders to come up wi...

A study conducted in Australia argue that nine tipping points could act like a row of dominoes for climate change. More than half of the tipping points that could lead to long-term irreversible changes on Earth and threaten civilisation have been activated, a study has warned. Th...

Carbon tax expected to raise price of Chinese goods in the European market, a move Beijing believes violates Paris deal. Proposals by the European Union to establish a carbon border tax will stymie the global communitys willingness to take joint action against climate change, Chi...

Global emissions need to be more than halved if we are to save the planet, worlds top scientists agree. Geneva, Switzerland The worlds countries have to cut their greenhouse gas emissions well beyond current pledges to make up for lost time or face catastrophic climate changes,...

The concentration of CO2 surged from 405.5 parts per million in 2017 to 407.8ppm in 2018. Greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change , hit a record high in 2018, the United Nations has said, calling for swift action to safeguard the future welfare ...

Desertification is already causing displacement in the country, which Red Cross says will be affected significantly by global warming. Sudan has been named by the Red Cross as one of the 10 countries most vulnerable to global climate change. Al Jazeeras Hiba Morgan reports from t...

Production gap is growing between emissions targets and countries planned consumption of fossil fuels. Countries climate pledges under the Paris agreement are insufficient, according to many scientists and environmental experts . But planned production of coal, oil and gas over t...

Last months election shows that climate change is at forefront Canadians minds and political discourse. Toronto, Canada If Canada s election last month sent any message to the rest of the world, it was that climate change is now a major component of political discourse, especial...

The 2020 budget is last in EUs current seven-year spending plan, with the next one facing tough scrutiny due to Brexit. European Union governments, parliament and the executive commission reached a deal late on Monday on the blocs 2020 budget that boosts spending on fighting clim...

A new study says impacts of climate change could burden an entire generation with disease and illness. A child born today will face multiple and lifelong dangers to their health from climate change as growing up in a warmer world risks food shortages, infectious diseases, floods ...

Climate crisis has arrived and is accelerating faster than most scientists expected, signatories say. More than 11,000 scientists have clearly and unequivocally declared a climate emergency that could bring untold suffering unless there are significant transformations in the way...

Macron, Xi to hold meeting on Wednesday in Beijing, where they are expected to renew pledge on climate change. Cooperation between Europe and China on reducing climate-warming emissions will be decisive, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, as he expressed disappoint...

Quicker action on emissions urged in run-up to Madrid conference, as US withdraws from landmark Paris Agreement. The vast majority of national commitments in the 2015 Paris Agreement are inadequate to prevent the worst effects of global warming , a group of scientists said on Tue...

Norges Bank suggests financial institutions increase capital requirements to account for climate risks. Norways central bank issued its most comprehensive warning to date about the risks of climate change for the oil-producing countrys banks and financial markets. Climate risk sh...

Climate change is displacing a growing number of people; governments are responding by privatising border policing. In the last few months, all publicly known banking partners of the US private prison and immigrant detention leader GEO Group have committed to severing their ties ...

Chile withdrew from hosting the event due to ongoing street protests over growing inequality. Spain has offered to host the United Nations COP25 climate change summit in Madrid, following Chile s withdrawal as host amid raging street protests in the South American country. The Sp...

UN official: With the planet heating up fast, so-called worthy global goals may no longer be the best focus. As global warming brings wilder weather, more harvest failures and the risk of growing migration and poverty, sustainable development as we think of it today may be out of...

This is the first of several climate-related lawsuits pending against major oil companies slated to go to trial. Exxon Mobil Corp on Tuesday was due to go on trial in the United States , facing a lawsuit by New York States attorney general accusing the energy giant of misleading ...

Global warming is putting the lifestyles of Arctic indigenous people under threat and creating grievances with governments over how to fix it. The indigenous Sami people have lived across Norway, Finland, Russia and Sweden in the Arctic region for thousands of years. Their tradit...

With more than 2,500 people arrested globally in the past week, Extinction Rebellion is now targeting the asset manager. Climate activists targeted BlackRock, the worlds biggest asset manager, in London on Monday to demand that financial institutions starve fossil fuel companies ...

Worlds main producer and exporter of gum arabic, used in many products from soft drinks to cosmetics, fears environmental changes. Sudan is the worlds main producer and exporter of gum arabic, according to the United Nations s food and agricultural organisation. It is used in man...

City governments commit to work with young activists on implementing policies that cut carbon emissions more quickly. With activists such as Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg and advocates in the Extinction Rebellion movement taking an increasingly visible stand on climate change ,...

Scores arrested as climate activists descend on centre of UK capital to demand urgent govt action on climate change. London, United Kingdom Hundreds of climate protesters have blocked roads in central London to launch a two-week protest as thousands of activists are expected to ...

Protesters demand immediate action on climate in rallies inspired by Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg. Ten of thousands of people took to the streets of New Zealand on Friday to kick off a second wave of worldwide protests demanding immediate action on climate change . Sco...

The World Economic Forum says improved battery technology could transform transport and energy production. Countries have been falling behind in meeting the emissions standards they agreed to under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, but the solution could be just a (rather large) ...

Worlds-biggest emitter promises to step up initiatives with focus on nature-based efforts to cut carbon emissions. China will inject new impetus into climate change efforts after 2020, and use its Belt and Road initiative to boost cooperation in the fight against global warming, ...

Worlds poorest communities have done the least to cause climate change, but end up paying for it, says charity. The costs of battling climate change are increasing for the worlds poorest communities, as they struggle with more extreme weather patterns and insufficient aid, the Un...

Activists around the US have planned a week of marches and protests to coincide with the UN meeting on climate change. Activists around the United States have planned a week of marches and protests to coincide with the United Nations meeting on climate change . In Washington, DC,...

Some 60 world leaders gather at the United Nations to try to inject fresh momentum into efforts to fight climate change. Days after millions of young people took to the streets worldwide to demand urgent action on climate change , leaders gathered at the United Nations on Monday ...

Antonio Guterres says climate change real threat to humanity and leaders need to show more ambition on targets. New York United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says climate change is the most important issue facing the world today and governments need to do more to sl...

If greenhouse gas emissions do not start falling soon there will be hell to pay, researchers warn. A damning new UN report published on Sunday warned the world was falling badly behind in the race to avert climate disaster as a result of runaway warming, with the five years endin...

Protesters aim to pressure world leaders who are gathering at the UN next week for the annual General Assembly. Millions across the globe have taken part in the biggest climate change protest on record . Young people took the lead, skipping classes and work to demand governments ...

Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg opens the first ever Youth Summit on climate change at the UN headquarters. A day after climate strikes convulsed cities across the globe, with hundreds of thousands of young people opting to skip school and take to the streets instead, youth leade...

From New York to Istanbul, young activists abandon school to demand immediate action on climate change. Millions of students and other activists abandoned school and work on Friday to join mass protests calling for action against climate change before a UN summit. From New York t...

Four activists, including a 91-year-old man, arrested while attempting to shut down traffic at the Port of Dover. Dover, England Traffic at the cross-channel Port of Dover has been disrupted as activists from the Extinction Rebellion movement, known for its civil disobedience st...

Protesters hit the streets as politicians agree on a mix of emissions trading and higher taxes to tackle climate change. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will present details of a broad climate plan for Germany on Friday following a special Cabinet meeting. The direction Europes b...

The older generation has failed to take climate action; its time young people take over. Earlier this month, I woke up to the news that a catastrophic hurricane was fast approaching my home in Florida. Living in the southern state for 14 years, I have gotten used to weather emerg...

Households are spending more than they receive in aid from the government and foreign donors. Bangladeshi families in rural areas have been spending 12 times more each year than the foreign aid the flood-prone country receives to prepare for and cope with the effects of climate c...

New global campaign kick-started at the UN aims for scalable and financeable solutions to repair Earths ecosystems. Some experts who study climate change and even many activists who advocate a significant humanitarian response to global warming may be too pessimistic to envisio...

The Swedish teen activist tells US politicians to listen to scientists and enact strong measures on climate change. Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg , who has inspired a global movement for climate change, delivered a strong message to members of Congress in the United States on W...

Call for more aggressive action and funding for small islands, coastal cities in Asia-Pacific as sea levels rise. Small islands and coastal cities in the Asia-Pacific need more funds to assist vulnerable communities and help them decide whether to relocate or stay and defend agai...

At first-ever town hall on climate crisis, candidates vie for voter attention on plans to stop global warming. With the debate topics in the 2020 Democratic presidential race ranging from the economy and foreign policy to healthcare and the opioid crisis, there is just one issue ...

Climate change activist group Heathrow Pause says drones will not be flown in airports flight paths. British climate change activists have said they will disrupt Londons Heathrow airport with toy drones from September 13, a step they hope will ground flights and put pressure on t...

Urgent cuts to emissions needed to stop decline in wildlife, increase in superstorms and mass displacement, report says. The Earth could witness a dramatic decline in fish stocks , a 100-fold increase in the damage caused by superstorms and millions of people displaced by rising ...

US president has reversed environmental protections put in place by his Democratic predecessor. United States President Donald Trump, responding to a question about climate change after skipping a Group of Seven ( G7 ) session on the issue, said on Monday that US wealth is based ...

Scientists fear all the island countrys 400 glaciers will be gone by 2200. With poetry, moments of silence and speeches, officials and activists in Iceland have bid goodbye to the countrys first glacier lost to climate change . About 100 people climbed for two hours on Sunday to ...

Pacific leaders criticise Australia over lack of action on existential threat posed by global warming, rising seas. Pacific leaders have complained that their message on global warming and the climate crisis the world faces had been watered down at Australias insistence during an...

To reduce its carbon footprint, Goldsmiths at the University of London will no longer sell beef on its campus. A London college said on Monday it has banned beef from its campus to combat climate change , becoming the first higher education institution in Britain to do so. From n...

The countrys coalition government considers taking on new debt to finance green initiatives. Germany is considering ditching its long-cherished balanced budget policy to help finance a costly climate protection programme with new debt, a senior government official said. The gover...

Desertification or land degradation already affects more than 500 million people in the worlds poorest countries. London, United Kingdom Better land management and the consumption of healthier diets can help address climate change, says the first comprehensive study on the inter...

Industry experts warn, in a country with a high unemployment rate, carbon taxes are anti-growth, anti-jobs and anti-investment. Coal mining is partly to blame for making South Africa one of the African continents worst polluters. Now, as South Africa tries to fight climate change...

As global temperatures rise, activists are amping up the vocabulary used to describe the crisis in media and politics. Four European countries saw soaring temperatures smash heat records this week, putting July on track to be the hottest month ever recorded. A mass of steamy air ...

European investors urge companies to slash their greenhouse gas emissions and increase their reporting of climate risk European funds managing two trillion dollars in assets called on cement companies to slash their greenhouse gas emissions on Monday, warning that a failure to do...

Extreme heat is worsening economic inequality among African farmers and raising the spectre of future food shortages. In the wake of a severe heatwave, popular Nigerian television host Ebuka Obi-Uchendu laments on Twitter that the brand of eggs he eats is missing from grocery sh...

Scientists say storm, which is expected to bring heavy rain to Louisiana, is fueled by warm waters in Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Barry, which is expected to flood New Orleans and threaten lives along the Mississippi River in the United States , is being fueled by warmth in th...

Experts say dams on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Turkey and Iran, and frequent droughts have increased the salinity of wetlands. Three years ago another Iraqi site was made a World Heritage Site. But the people living in the marshes of southern Iraq, the Marsh Arabs, say th...

Some countries take lead in adopting new approaches in aiding those displaced by natural disasters and climate change. The wealth gap that largely divides the world also manifests itself in the effects of climate change . A United Nations report warned last week that the world is...

Proposal seeks massive economic transformation and is backed by MP Caroline Lucas, who designed original framework. The progressive think-tank Common Wealth has published a 10-point Green New Deal plan for the United Kingdom to transform public finance and tackle the climate emer...

Study says over decades, new trees could suck up nearly 750 billion tonnes of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees one trillion of them, maybe more, a study says. And theres enough room, Swiss scientists say. Even...

Arshak Makichyan raises awareness with a demonstration featuring just himself and a cardboard sign in Pushkin Square. Moscow, Russia Most people strolling through Pushkin Square in central Moscow on any given Friday probably dont notice the protest in front of them. The entire d...

Group of 20 nations meets in Osaka and a lack of urgency to address our changing climate will be a hot topic. Leaders from the Group of 20 nations (G20) will meet in Osaka starting on Friday and wrangling is expected over the wording of a summit communique on combatting climate c...

UN rights expert calls for major re-engineering of economies to tackle effect of climate change on the global poor. The world is on course for climate apartheid, where the rich buy their way out of the worst effects of global warming while the poor bear the brunt, according to a ...

An EU net zero carbon footprint by 2050 target was scuppered by four governments, dependent on fossil fuel economies. London, United Kingdom European Union leaders have failed to strike a deal to commit the bloc to achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at a European Council summi...

A top Exxon shareholder is punishing the oil giant for reportedly not meeting its standards on climate change action. One of Britains biggest fund managers started selling shares in Exxon Mobil Corp., saying Americas largest oil company isnt doing enough to address climate change...

The biggest animals in the worlds oceans are going to be hit hardest as climate change intensifies, a new study says. The worlds oceans will likely lose about one-sixth of their fish and other marine life by the end of the century if climate change continues on its current path, ...

Hell on Earth predicted if immediate action isnt taken to replace fossil fuels with clean energy. A climate change paper grabbed headlines this week with its terrifying prediction of what the world will be in 30 years time absent drastic and immediate change to human societies. ...

Average daytime temperatures in Guatemala have risen over the past decade, while crop-damaging frosts are more common. Experts say climate change is one of the reasons for the exodus. Prolonged drought and extreme weather occurrences are battering maize, beans and other crops. Al...

At annual investor gathering, environmental resolutions are soundly rejected in defeat for anti-fossil-fuel activists. Exxon Mobil Corp shareholders on Wednesday rejected a proposal that would have forced the companys board to create a special committee on climate change . Shareh...

At annual meetings on Wednesday, US oil giants are expected to see contentious votes on formation of climate committees. Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp.s unwillingness to venture beyond their core oil and gas business will face a test Wednesday when shareholders vote on clima...

The tech legends innovations laid the foundations of the modern internet. Now, hes working to save the planet. New York City, United States Bill Joy wants to talk about responsibility. Sustainability . And the design of his shoes. As you see, theyre mostly blue, he says. More on...

Nearly 2,500 strikes have been registered on the Fridays for Future website, with the number likely to rise. Hundreds of thousands of youth worldwide are participating in a school strike, demanding action on climate change, heeding a call by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg to hol...

Energy and global warming debates have dominated Australias election campaign, with many voters calling for change. Melbourne, Australia Non-renewable fossil fuels still account for about 85 percent of Australia s electricity generation. But with 2019 bringing the hottest summer...

Juan de Leon Gutierrez, 16, left his eastern Guatemala home due to years of drought. He died in US custody weeks later. Camotan, Guatemala The rains in the village of Tizamarte in the eastern Guatemalan department of Chiquimula no longer arrive as they did in the past. Before it...

Torres Strait Islanders say Australias failure to tackle climate change puts their homeland and culture in danger. Indigenous people from the low-lying Torres Strait Islands off Australias northeast coast will file a landmark complaint with the United Nations on Monday, accusing ...