Climate Change

African children may not have a safe place to live in if the climate crisis in the continent is not well mitigated. Children are the least responsible for climate change,…

Imagine you and your family live in a timber shack in Alaska. It is chilly up there, so you build yourself a huge log fire and pile on all the…

Only eight nations across the globe are making sufficient efforts to contain global warming below two degrees Celsius (2°C) – the level that the Paris Agreement on climate change requires…

South Africa, Kenya and Chile have the highest share of citizens most concerned about the effects of climate change across the globe, a new survey shows. About 90 percent of…

Morocco and Gambia are the only two countries worldwide on track to containing global warming below 1.5°C (degrees Celsius), a new global report shows. According to a study by Cambridge…

Seychelles leads Africa in efforts to protect the environment and mitigate climate change as Denmark takes the world’s top spot, new global report shows. The 2020 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) compiled by…

Even before the globe got hit by the Covid-19 crisis, efforts to slow down climate change, reduce the number of people going without food and bridge widening inequalities had either…

Covid-19 has achieved what decades of climate change talks couldn’t – a significant decrease in our global emissions of carbon dioxide. We’re looking at a decrease of up to 8%…

If any image has singularly captured the public’s attention during the coronavirus pandemic, it has been The Curve. The graph charts the incidence of new cases — and by extension,…

Extreme weather disasters like cyclones, floods and wildfires caused economic damage of $232 billion last year – the second warmest on record. Data compiled by London-based insurance firm Aon indicates…