Climate & Environment

UN 2023 Water Conference
Water use has been increasing globally by roughly 1% per year over the last 40 years and is expected to grow at a similar rate ..

Cyclone Freddy
Malawi already is grappling with the deadliest cholera outbreak in its history, which has killed more than 1,600 people since last year. Mozambique is also struggling ..

Iraq water crisis
UN says a fifth of Iraqis can’t get water that’s safe to drink/use.

Catastrophic floods in Malaysia
The Met department has warned of more rains in the coming days.

Brazil and the US to collaborate on combating the climate crisis
Kerry will advance the US-Brazil Climate Change Working Group that Presidents Biden and Lula relaunched earlier this month.

Understanding the climate change
Since 2016, U-S government researchers funded by the Department of Energy have been simulating global warming and recording the results, in what is called the ..

Brazil floods
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited impacted areas in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo.

Devastating floods in Sao Paulo state
Local government has declared a state of alert in the area as entire neighbourhoods are underwater, debris from hillside houses swept away by oozing earth, ..

Madagascar cyclone
Mauritius has grounded flights and shut its stock exchange on Monday in anticipation of the cyclone.

The largest climate-change experiments
The goal is to understand how climate change will affect Minnesota’s northern forest peatlands, massive wetlands that provide a habitat to spruce and tamarack trees, ..

Cyclone Gabrielle
Residents of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, are being asked to prepare for cyclone Gabrielle.

Chile’s uncontrolled fires
About 20 people have been arrested on suspicion of having set some of the fires.