Climate & Environment

Africa Climate Summit
“We must see in green growth, not just a climate imperative but also a fountain of multi-billion-dollar economic opportunities that Africa and the world is ..

WMO Report
The report will link air quality, climate change and heatwaves, arguing that they should be monitored together, not separately.

Day 2 of the Africa Climate Summit
The summit will among other things aim to produce a common plan for tackling climate change and propose a new international financing framework, which ..

Day 1 of Africa Climate Summit
Africa’s environmental problems are well charted: water scarcity, biodiversity loss, drought etc. Along with much of the global south, it’s seeking money from the West ..

Hurricane Idalia aftermath
The National Hurricane Center called it ‘extremely dangerous’, capable of leaving the area uninhabitable ‘for weeks or months’ – It is the first hurricane to ..

Climate change and drought
Earlier in 2023, the Panama Canal’s authority began imposing restrictions, causing a backlog of vessels waiting to pass. To conserve water, canal authorities are limiting ..

Algeria, Greece, US, and Canada are swept by severe heatwave
In Greece, devastating wildfires are continuing to sweep through Greece for a seventh consecutive day. Mass evacuations have been ordered on several Greek islands as tens ..

South Korea devastating floods
Authorities said on Sunday that rescue workers had pulled seven bodies from vehicles trapped in a flooded underpass in central South Korea after days of ..

Floods damaged crops in India’s Punjab
The Indian government has said it expects to produce 135.5 million tonnes of rice this year, more than what they produced last year, but the ..

Heatwave is set to intensify
Parts of Italy could see highs of 48°C and high temperatures are expected to continue into next week as a second heatwave approaches. Death Valley ..

Acropolis/Sun shade to alleviate heatwave
One day while filling up brothel-keeper Amina’s house with mounds of earth, the dreaded bawd. I was about seven years old when I was close ..

Northwest India floods
In Punjab’s Dera Bassi rescue personnel used rubber rafts to rescue people stranded inside their homes.