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UN worried about lack of funds to tackle Somalia drought
Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)
The troubled Horn of Africa nation is being ravaged by drought, which has affected 4.5 million people -- nearly 30 percent of its population -- as of February, ...
Satellites support latest IPCC climate report
Mar 07, 2022 (ESA)
The report utilises satellite observations as crucial input, including several long-term datasets of key aspects of the climate, known as Essential Climate Vari...
'Maladaptation': how not to cope with climate change
Mar 05, 2022 (AFP)
Whether it is sustainable farming or bioengineered crops to boost food security; restoring mangrove forests or building sea dams to buffer rising oceans; urban ...
In Cameroon's arid north, climate stress boosts ethnic strife
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
A group of men sit on a rug, conversing in the shade of a tree, while women perching on stones under the scorching Sahel sun prepare a meal with the few ingredi...
Baidoa: Crossroads of despair in drought-ravaged Somalia
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
She has just arrived in the southwestern Somali city of Baidoa, the last refuge for people fleeing the worst drought in the country in a decade. Along with her ...
On land and sea, climate change causing 'irreversible' losses: UN
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
All forms of life on Earth are linked together by a vast web of causes and consequences, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in a new repo...
US Supreme Court hears climate case as UN issues stark warning
Mar 01, 2022 (AFP)
The high-stakes case concerns the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants, whic...
China backpedals on climate promises as economy slows
Mar 01, 2022 (AFP)
The ink had barely dried on the hard-fought deal struck at last year's United Nations climate conference in Glasgow when Beijing's backslide on pledges began. T...
Poorer nations need $60 bn a year to protect nature: NGOs
Mar 01, 2022 (AFP)
The appeal by WWF, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other green groups was launched on the sidelines of a major UN environment meet...
Climate migrants could face a world of closing doors
Feb 28, 2022 (AFP)
From fleeing a typhoon to relocating in anticipation of sea level rise, climate migration covers a myriad of situations and raises a host of questions. But one ...
Landmark UN report a harrowing catalogue of climate misery
Feb 28, 2022 (AFP)
Nearly half the planet's population are highly vulnerable to a devastating array of climate impacts, according to a landmark UN report that said time had very n...
UN report to lay bare harrowing scale of climate impacts
Feb 28, 2022 (AFP)
Extreme weather, ecosystem collapse, mosquito-borne disease, water shortages and reduced crop yields are already measurably worse due to rising temperatures. Ju...
UN report a reminder that 'climate crisis threatens us all': US
Feb 28, 2022 (AFP)
It "demonstrates why the international community must urgently continue to pursue ambitious climate action, even as we face other pressing global challenges," B...
Planet 'fire alarm': world reacts to UN climate report
Feb 28, 2022 (AFP)
With nearly half the world population "highly vulnerable" and nature facing some irreversible threats, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the wi...
'Liveable future' at risk, UN climate report warns
Feb 28, 2022 (AFP)
Species extinction, ecosystem collapse, insect-borne disease, deadly heatwaves and megastorms, water shortages, reduced crop yields -- all are measurably worse ...
UN chief slams world powers for 'criminal' lack of climate leadership
Feb 28, 2022 (AFP)
Guterres said the most compelling scientific overview to date of the impacts and vulnerabilities from the UN's climate experts was an "atlas of human suffering ...
Russian official apologises for war in Ukraine at UN climate meet
Feb 27, 2022 (AFP)
The surprise intervention from Russia's Oleg Anisimov at the closed-door meeting followed an electrifying live statement from his Ukranian counterpart, Svitlana...
Nations approve major UN report on climate impacts
Feb 27, 2022 (AFP)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that debates had concluded over the report's crucial "Summary for Policymakers", a 40-page overvi...
African nations forced to spend on climate adaptation: study
Feb 26, 2022 (AFP)
The findings, published by the Nairobi-based think tank Power Shift Africa, focus on the costs of warding off climate impacts by strengthening transport infrast...
Drought, famine are Ethiopia's worst ever 'enemy', says PM
Feb 25, 2022 (AFP)
Vast swathes of land stretching from southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya and Somalia are in the grip of a severe drought that has left 13 million people facing ...
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