Pakistan earns millions of dollars from the global carbon credit markets thanks to restored mangroves. However, Pakistan’s inability to use the funds to strengthen its climate change defense is due to political unrest.
Kiribati said it would rejoin a diplomatic grouping of Pacific Island countries this year, potentially ending a rift that raised questions about the relevance of the Pacific Islands Forum at a time of increased U.S.-China rivalry in the region.
In a contest held by the environmental group The Nature Conservancy, nature photographers from all around the world expressed their sentiments about a planet that is ever changing.
Recent strong monsoon rains in North India caused landslides and flooding that killed 40 people. At a time when climate change is also posing challenges, experts and local environmental activists attribute such disasters to excessive development along fragile mountain slopes
Conflict between states and terrorists linked to the Islamic State and Al Qaeda in the Sahel region of West Africa has resulted in massive migration. Climate change, like the elusive terror groups hiding in the Sahelian scrub region, is driving people out of their homes
El Salvador experienced a golden age when coffee farming drove the country’s economy. However, producers claim that climate change, among other factors, is affecting everything
Parts of the world that were long assumed to be permanently frozen are melting, posing problems for countries like Russia, which has extensive swaths of permafrost
Margo Dieye, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Nauru to the UN, brief reporters on Climate and Security
The report presents a bleak snapshot of current and future climate trends in Africa brought on by an inexorable rise in warming. Since 1901, it notes Africa has warmed by more than one degrees Celsius, with 2019 among the three warmest years on record
Climate change is driving gender-based violence among rural communities in the breakaway region of Somaliland, according to the charity Oxfam. In times of increasing drought, women travel further to find water and other needs, raising the risk of sexual violence. Similarly, men unable to support their families too often take out their frustration on their family