Press Release: World commits to pollution-free planet at environment summit
The world today committed to a pollution-free planet at the close of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, with resolutions and pledges...
The most accurate climate change models predict the most alarming consequences, study finds
The climate change simulations that best capture current planetary conditions are also the ones that predict the most dire levels of...
Earth’s climate will warm 15 per cent more than we thought
CHILDREN born now could live to witness the planet warming more than 4°C, even if we cut greenhouse emissions by a fair amount. That’s...
Radio: In Senegal and West Africa, villages fight climate change
Across western Africa, people in rural communities are taking the future into their own hands with local initiatives to fight climate...
Thorny to Tasty - Looking At Cactus As Climate Resilient Food
With the reality of climate change becoming more real by the day, including its impact on food sources, the United Nations Food and...
IN AFRICA, MANY WOMEN DIE OF POLLUTION FROM COOKING
The night Fatimah died, it rained endlessly. Her sullen eyes – scarlet and dilated- shut in with a hot, almost steamy tear, as she let...
California May Reach Its Renewable Energy Goal 10 Years Early
In 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law that would see the state committing to renewable energy. The law gave California...
Fires, droughts and hurricanes: What's the link between climate change and natural disasters?
One of the most destructive fire seasons in California history keeps getting worse, with three wildfires driven by Santa Ana winds...
How the Lake Chad region was devastated by climate change, war and poverty
had was named for a mistake. In the eighteen-hundreds, European explorers arrived at the marshy banks of a vast body of freshwater in...
These floating buildings are made from discarded bottles
Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world when it comes to flooding, storms, and impact from sea level rise. In...