Asia hit hardest by climate, weather disasters in 2023:UN
UN’s weather and climate agency said Asia was warming at a particularly rapid pace
Asia was the world’s most disaster-hit region from climate and weather...
Health-harming heat stress rising in Europe, scientists say
Temperatures in Europe are rising at roughly twice the global average, Copernicus and WMO reported
Deaths related to heat have increased by around 30 percent in Europe...
Next UN climate talks are critical to plot aid for poorer nations, says incoming...
The man who will run United Nations climate talks this November views the negotiations as a key link in international efforts to curb global warming.
The conference in Baku, Azerbaijan,...
Biden awards $830 million to toughen nation’s infrastructure against climate change
The Biden administration on Thursday awarded $830 million in grants to fund 80 projects aimed at toughening the nation’s aging infrastructure against the harmful impacts of climate change.
The money...
Is action on climate change a human right? A European court will rule for...
Europe’s highest human rights court will rule Tuesday on a group of landmark climate change cases aimed at forcing countries to meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The...
Police block Thunberg, marchers in Dutch climate protest
Dozens of police officers, some on horseback, blocked protesters from reaching the A12 arterial highway into the Dutch seaside city
It’s important to demonstrate today because we...
Mexico’s likely next president is a scientist. Politics has her mostly quiet on climate...
The López home kept filling with seawater as the Gulf of Mexico rose and winter storms got worse.
Cristina López and her family decided to leave after one bad...
In Indonesia, deforestation is intensifying disasters from severe weather and climate change
Roads turned to murky brown rivers, homes were swept away by strong currents and bodies were pulled from mud during deadly flash floods and landslides after torrential rains hit West Sumatra in early March,...
The ‘Taylor Swift effect’ aims to provide water during Brazil’s life-threatening heat waves
Brazilian climatologist Núbia Beray Armond for years had been sounding the alarm about Rio de Janeiro’s need for an extreme heat plan including water distribution. Interest was tepid until a disastrous Taylor...
Powerful storm in California and Nevada shuts interstate and dumps snow on mountains
A powerful blizzard raged overnight into Saturday in the Sierra Nevada as the biggest storm of the season shut down a long stretch of Interstate-80 in California and gusty winds and heavy...