Brazilian President Lula unveils anti-poverty, hunger alliance at G20 | Hunger News
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has opened the Group of 20 Summit in Brazil by unveiling a global alliance aimed at tackling poverty…
Access to climate education is a matter of justice | Climate Crisis
In his poem The Right to Dream (1995), Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano imagines “how the world will be in 2025”. He dreams of a better…
Delhi shuts schools, bans construction as pollution levels hit new high | Climate Crisis News
Schools go online until further notice because of worsening toxic smog, the latest bid to ease the Indian capital’s health crisis.Authorities in India’s capital have…
Biden: No reversal of US clean energy advances ahead of Trump presidency | Climate Crisis News
United States President Joe Biden has witnessed the devastation of drought up close as he became the first sitting US president to visit the Amazon…
Yunus on Hasina: She can call herself Bangladesh PM, reality differs | Climate
At COP29, Bangladesh’s Muhammad Yunus addresses climate crisis and national healing after political upheaval.At the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, Nobel…
Trail of destruction as Typhoon Man-yi lashes the Philippines | Weather News
A powerful typhoon has wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut…
Zambia’s Kariba Dam crisis is one of inequality | Climate Crisis
As discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku over how to finance climate action remain gridlocked, Southern Africans are learning that some…
Philippines evacuates thousands as Super Typhoon Man-yi nears | Weather News
President Marcos directs government to prepare for ‘worst-case scenario’, with millions at risk from storm surges.The Philippines has ordered the evacuation of hundreds of thousands…
Top polluting cities revealed as activists fume at COP29 fossil fuel lobby | Climate Crisis News
Oil giants commit $500m for sustainable energy, but campaigners say lobbyists have seized control of climate talks.Cities in Asia and the United States emit the…
What action can developing nations take to tackle the climate crisis? | Climate Crisis
Financing is one of the main sticking points at the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan.Climate scientists meeting in Azerbaijan are setting new targets to cut emissions…
‘Dante’s inferno’: Wildfires scorch New York amid historic drought | Climate Crisis News
Brooklyn, New York – An incinerated, rusty microwave, the charred skeleton of a lawn chair, a pile of melted clothes, and singed scraps of the…
New storm bears down on the Philippines after Typhoon Usagi wrecked havoc | Weather News
Another dangerous storm is barrelling towards the Philippines, threatening an area where dozens of people were killed by flash floods and landslides just weeks ago,…
Tropical Storm Sara forms in Caribbean, threatening Central America | Weather News
The late season storm is forecast to bring heavy rains to flood-prone Central America before moving east towards the US.A new tropical storm in the…
India’s capital New Delhi shuts all primary schools as air quality worsens | Climate News
The pollution in New Delhi is likely to stay ‘severe’ on Friday, after which it will improve to ‘very poor’.India’s capital New Delhi has ordered…
COP 29: Developed economies must learn to prioritise lives over profits | Climate
The flash floods that overwhelmed Spain’s eastern Valencia region two weeks ago were the deadliest natural disaster in the country’s living memory. The Spanish government…
Countries at COP29 urged to invest trillions to cope with climate change | Climate Crisis News
Report urges $6.5 trillion annual investment in climate action by 2030 to meet targets and avoid future costs.Countries need to invest more than $6 trillion…
World’s largest coral discovered in Pacific near Solomon Islands | Climate Crisis News
Scientists have found the largest coral in the world near the remote Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean, a gigantic organism that can be seen…
COP29 host Azerbaijan brands oil and gas ‘gift from God’ | Climate News
President Aliyev accuses West of hypocrisy for criticising country’s fossil-fuel dependence while buying its oil & gas.Azerbaijan’s president has branded oil and gas a “gift…
Fifth storm in less than a month bears down on the Philippines | Floods News
The Philippines issued new weather warnings as the fifth major storm in three weeks bore down on the archipelago, days after thousands were evacuated before…
Refugees on front lines of global climate crisis, warns UN | Climate Crisis News
Climate hazards helping to double the number of displaced people to 120 million, UNHCR reports.Climate change is helping to drive a rising refugee crisis, adding…