Climate & Environment

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.

More fires are expected in Chile
High temperatures are forecast through Friday and could rise above 35 degrees Celsius in the central Mauley Ñuble regions.

World’s biodiversity crisis
The WWF estimates that Earth is losing species at thousands of times the natural extinction rate, due to human-led causes.

Australia environment ruling
Drilling was suspended at the Barossa project off northern Australia after a judge on Sept. 21 found that the offshore regulator’s approval of Santos’ drilling ..

The effect of climate on world heritage
On the agenda is the effect of climate on world heritage, the importance of doing more to preserve African heritage as well as announcing a ..

Madagascar is facing drought
Consecutive poor seasons and extreme weather disasters, as well as mismanagement of resources, have left most of the country’s south dry and in famine conditions.

Cop 27
The COP27 summit follows a year of such disasters, from floods that killed more than 1,700 people in Pakistan to drought-withering crops in China, Africa ..