Earlier this month, historic floods that destroyed everything in their path ravaged southern Brazil. In addition to displacing over 500,000 Brazilians, the floods claimed over 150 lives. The unprecedented devastation is attributed by scientists to a combination of several weather variables that are all impacted by climate change.
According to a new report by Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, which was published in the journal Nature, the average income of people around the world will be cut by one-fifth by the middle of the century due to climate change.
This week, in Nairobi, the United Nations Environment Assembly, or UNEA-6, is meeting to discuss how to address the triple planetary crisis of pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change.
Nigerian officials are taking a new look at the mining industry as part of their efforts to diversify the country’s economy after years of focusing on oil and gas. But the country remains reeling from the environmental damage that old mining operations and ongoing illegal mining have inflicted.
Along El Salvador’s coastline, where saltwater is slowly claiming what was once farmland, the impact of climate change is becoming more evident.
Global temperature records had been demolished in 2023. It was the hottest year on record—some scientists say it was the hottest in 125,000 years. These extremely high temperatures were a contributing factor in several global climatic disasters.
As world leaders huddled inside various rooms at the COP28 to discuss ways to tackle climate change, visitors were offered an unconventional and compelling exhibit in another corner of the summit venue in Dubai.
Families in Iraq, one of the most impacted countries in the world, are being forced to abandon their crops as villages are swallowed by desert, while officials in Dubai are entering the final hours of the international climate conference.
According to scientists, the Amazon region experienced the most severe drought on record in 2023.Rivers and lakes reached record low levels before rising in recent weeks. Because there was not enough water in the tributaries, thousands of people were isolated. Scientists say, this should be considered a warning about the possible impacts of climate change.
Coral reefs off the coast of Florida, USA, are hurting from warmer ocean temperatures. For VOA, Genia Dulot examined what is happening.