カテゴリー: Climate crisis
Climate change named as major driver, with up to $14bn in infrastructure at risk from higher sea levelsSea levels around New Zealand rose twice as fast in the past 60 years as they did in the first half of last century, with climate change flagged as t…
Study says climate crisis likely to have significantly increased rainfall and made future floods more likelyThe intense rainfall that has caused devastating floods across Pakistan was made worse by global heating, which has also made future floods more…
António Guterres calls for ‘massive financial support’ in wake of disaster that has killed at least 1,391 peopleThe United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, has visited several areas of Pakistan ravaged by floods, as he rounded off a two-day…
Countries most responsible for climate crisis must ‘end war with nature’, says António GuterresThe UN secretary-general, António Guterres, has said the world owes impoverished Pakistan “massive” help in recovering from the summer’s devastating floods b…
The recent flooding is a direct result of a climate crisis fuelled by the global north. We must accept the blame and pay up, says Christopher Tanner Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar’s article (Rich countries caused Pakistan’s catastrophic flooding. Their response…
Kohei Saito’s book Capital in the Anthropocene has become an unlikely hit among young people and is about to be translated into EnglishThe climate crisis will spiral out of control unless the world applies “emergency brakes” to capitalism and devises a…
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, grandson of Pakistan’s hanged reforming prime minister, saw devastation and desperation after recent floodsA Pakistani artist whose work centres on the Indus River delta, its wildlife and the climate crisis has told of his return t…
Those who don’t die from the floods risk death by starvation – yet you’ve probably heard little about the devastationToday, Pakistan, the world’s fifth-most-populous country, is fighting for its survival. This summer, erratic monsoon rains battered the…
Average temperature in August was 1.2C higher than norm, which caused widespread droughtChina recorded its highest temperatures and one of its lowest levels of rainfall in 61 years during a two-month summer heatwave that caused forest fires, damaged cr…
But there remains strong support in many countries for Russian military withdrawal from Ukraine, survey findsThe cost of living is ranked by most voters globally as a more important issue than liberating Ukraine from Russian occupation, but there is st…
New Zealand researchers believe the isolated spruce could reveal much about the Southern Ocean, one of the world’s major carbon sinksIt is regarded as the “loneliest tree in the world” but the Sitka spruce on uninhabited Campbell Island has been keepin…
If Cop27 fails to bring the major polluters to heel, the global south will be forced to act on its ownMustafa Nawaz Khokar is a senator in PakistanWhat we’ve witnessed this summer in Pakistan is nothing short of a climate catastrophe. First came the ea…
Sherry Rehman, the country’s climate change minister, insists rich polluters must pay their due as country is deluded by devastating floodsRich polluting countries which are predominantly to blame for the “dystopian” climate breakdown have broken their…
Unprecedented flooding in the country during monsoon season has left at least 1,265 people dead Pakistan has appealed to the international community for an “immense humanitarian response” to unprecedented flooding that has left at least 1,265 people de…
Planes bring food, medicine and tents to disaster zone, with officials blaming floods on climate changePlanes carrying fresh supplies are forming a humanitarian air bridge to flood-ravaged Pakistan as the death toll passed 1,200, officials have said w…