On the eve of a high-level event on the impact of climate change on refugees, Andrew Harper, UNHCR’s special advisor on climate action talks about climate refugees, conflict triggers and what the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us about responding to global emergency
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
As effects of climate change continue to be felt across the globe, Kenya’s pastoralists in the country’s Northwestern county of Turkana are counting losses caused by droughts and floods. Longer drought in 2019 and heavy floods in early this year, dealt a blow to Turkana residents with many there losing livestock, the region’s main source of livelihood and income earner
After a long and unsettling dry spell, the water at Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls is flowing again, fed by rains upstream in Angola and Namibia, But as Columbus Mavhunga reports from Victoria Falls, experts and environmentalists say global warming is having a huge impact across Africa, and the continent needs to take immediate action to help reverse the trend
Inescapable Effects of Global Warming Jeopardize Livelihoods in Africa
Talks on climate change have opened in Madrid amid stark warnings that soon, it may be too late to prevent catastrophic consequences of global warming
As climate change ramps up weather extremes, good forecasts are increasingly important. A new system makes weather predictions anywhere in the world with the same high resolution that previously was only available in wealthy countries
The climate action movement known as “Fridays for Future” has spread to Nigeria, where it is being led by a 16-year-old school girl, Faithwins Iwuh. The movement started by a Swedish teenager, Greta Thunberg, now has millions of school children worldwide, who are demanding immediate action to counteract global warming
While 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg has inspired some people, she’s faced fiery criticism from others. Thunberg continued on her journey, this week, at the United Nations Climate Change Summit in New York. Meanwhile, other young people have been protesting in Washington and worldwide