カテゴリー: Climate change
Extreme weather, locust invasions and violence have forced people to flee their homesMillions of people were uprooted from their homes by conflict, violence and natural disasters in the first six months of this year, research has found.Nearly 15m new i…
The climate crisis and Covid-19 are crying out for international cooperation, writes the prime minister of BangladeshOne-third of my country was underwater last month. The heaviest rains in almost a decade began and have still not abated. More than 1.5…
Now is a time for courage. It will take sacrifices from everyone for us all to survive, the president of the Marshall Islands writesMy country joined the United Nations nearly 30 years ago, in September 1991. But unless my fellow member states take act…
Green party makes electoral pledge that would make it mandatory for large financial institutions to reveal exposure to climate-related risksNew Zealand’s left-leaning Green party said it would require the financial sector to make annual disclosures abo…
Season in 2020 was 1.14C above average, with 17 locations setting record-breaking mean temperaturesNew Zealand has had its warmest winter since records began more than 100 years ago, according to official climate data.The National Institute of Water an…
Floods, droughts, avalanches and landslides are common in the mountainous, arid terrainKhoja Zada found his son around noon; his body was under layers of rubble and mud. The rain had stopped and the sun was shining again when the 70-year-old dug him ou…
António Guterres tells country to stop building coal-fired power stations for sake of climateIndia must swiftly and permanently turn away from coal despite its need for cheap energy, the UN secretary general has urged, aiming to revive global action on…
Exclusive: Taneti Maamau says Kiribati will seek support from China and other allies to elevate islands from the sea, partly through dredgingKiribati will raise its islands above the ocean as part of its fight against sea-level rise, seeking help from …
Narendra Modi’s dream of a ‘self-reliant India’ comes at a terrible price for its indigenous populationOver the past decade, Umeshwar Singh Amra has witnessed his homeland descend into a battleground. The war being waged in Hasdeo Arand, a rich and bio…
Despite flood planning efforts hundreds have been killed and millions hit as third of land is submerged by non-stop rainBangladesh could be plunged into a humanitarian crisis as it undergoes the most prolonged monsoon flooding in decades while it is st…
Hurried evacuation of millions of residents will increase coronavirus cases, officials say Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Severe flooding in India’s tea-growing state of Assam and neighbouring Nepal has killed at least 200…
As the first young person in China to engage in Greta Thunberg-inspired Fridays for Future climate strikes, Howey Ou says she has become a target for the authorities who see that activism as a challenge to their control.The 17-year-old claims…
Ou Hongyi, who took part in the #FridaysforFuture protest, says she has been told she cannot return to school unless she stops her activismTakes initiative. An independent thinker. Engages in study outside of the curriculum. Cares deeply about her comm…
Country’s youngest MP is on a mission, inspired by Greta Thunberg, as climate moves up political agendaA year ago, Soyoung Lee was one of a crowd of climate activists demonstrating on the streets of Seoul in a campaign inspired by the global school str…
New Zealand climate minister says governments must not just return to the way things were, and instead plot a new course to ease climate change James Shaw, New Zealand’s climate change minister, has asked the country’s independent climate change commis…