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Apr 07, 2017 (AFP)

More than 20 million people are at risk of famine in Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria, a tragedy already affecting 100,000 people in war-torn South Sudan. Worldwide, ...

Drought shatters Turkana's dreams of a better future

Apr 05, 2017 (AFP)

In just a few years water, oil and money would flow. Roads, schools and hospitals would follow. Turkana's generations of poverty and neglect in Kenya's arid nor...

Early climate 'payback' with higher emission reductions

Apr 04, 2017 (SPX)

Climate scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre have shown that the early mitigation needed to limit eventual warming below potentially dangerous levels has ...

US will keep climate commitments despite Trump: ex-mayor of NY

Mar 31, 2017 (AFP)

The former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, said Friday the United States will keep its commitment to reduce greenhouse gases despite US President Donald T...

Finding order in chaos to help buffer against climate change

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

Resilience" is a buzzword often used in scientific literature to describe how animals, plants and landscapes can persist under climate change. It's typically co...

Putin says climate change not manmade

Mar 30, 2017 (AFP)

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday said climate change was not caused by human activity, as the White House announced that President Donald Trump would d...

US climate science hearing descends into bullying 'food-fight'

Mar 30, 2017 (AFP)

Lawmakers and scientists called names, lamented Soviet-era tactics and accused each other of wrongdoing at a nearly three-hour hearing on climate science in the...

Trump keeps world dangling on Paris climate pact

Mar 30, 2017 (AFP)

President Donald Trump's plan for gutting domestic climate change policies is now on the table, but his administration left open Wednesday the question of wheth...

Trump moves to roll back Obama climate measures

Mar 29, 2017 (AFP)

President Donald Trump declared the end of a "war on coal" Tuesday, as he moved to curb rules that underpin American emissions targets and a major global climat...

Climate at your fingertips

Mar 29, 2017 (ESA)

Discover our planet's changing climate through the eyes of satellites with Climate from Space, a new digital book for iPad and Android tablets featuring interac...

No decision yet on staying in Paris climate accord: US

Mar 29, 2017 (AFP)

The United States has made no decision yet on whether it will continue to participate in the Paris accord on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, the Trump a...

China calls on US to honour climate commitments

Mar 29, 2017 (AFP)

China Wednesday called on the US to honour its commitments to tackle climate change, after President Donald Trump moved to roll back American emissions targets ...

Number of Kenyans going hungry doubles to 3 mln: Red Cross

Mar 28, 2017 (AFP)

The number of Kenyans needing emergency food aid has doubled in the past three months to three million, the Red Cross said Tuesday, as the impact of a devastati...

Tillerson alias emails from his ExxonMobil era prove elusive

Mar 23, 2017 (AFP)

Emails sent under a pseudonym by current US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson when he was still CEO of ExxonMobil, and which are sought by a court, cannot be pro...

Under the dead sea, warnings of dire drought

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Nearly 1,000 feet below the bed of the Dead Sea, scientists have found evidence that during past warm periods, the Mideast has suffered drought on scales never ...

2017 already marked by climate extremes: UN

Mar 21, 2017 (AFP)

Extreme weather and climate conditions, including Arctic "heatwaves", are continuing this year, after 2016 topped the global temperature charts and saw shrinkin...

Cloaked in rags and dust, Somalis flee looming famine

Mar 20, 2017 (AFP)

Mariam Ibrahim, her seven children and two neighbouring families were the last to leave their village in southwestern Somalia. They loaded their combined belong...

Climate change 'makes deadly China pollution worse'

Mar 20, 2017 (AFP)

Global warming has boosted the frequency and severity of deadly air pollution peaks in northern China, scientists said Monday. Toxic particles in the air cause ...

US climate scepticism clouds G20 meet

Mar 18, 2017 (AFP)

After threatening environmental financing with the axe, US President Donald Trump's administration on Saturday defied the international community by refusing to...

Is spring getting longer

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

With the first day of spring around the corner, temperatures are beginning to rise, ice is melting, and the world around us is starting to blossom. Scientists s...