Climate Change

Original publisher and author: Global Environment Facility (GEF) Sierra Leone has experienced significant human, environmental, and economic hardship from climate change over the past decade, and floods, landslides, and extreme weather events only expected to increase in the years ahead. Yet the West Africa country is also home to an…

By JOAHNA LEI CASILAO, GMA News Published September 25, 2021 5:59pm Rizal Representative Fidel Nograles on Saturday called on local governments to apply for funding for their projects as a P1-billion fund for climate change projects remains under-utilized. “The fund remains underused even as our communities are perennially laid to…

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to leverage on his leadership position to ensure stability among West African nations, in terms of democracy and good governance. According to a statement by a Presidential media aide, Femi Adesina, the UN secretary-general revealed this at…

Twitter will now allow people to tip their favorite content creators with bitcoin and will also launch a fund to pay some users who host audio chat rooms on its Spaces feature, the company said on Thursday. The company also said it will test new ways to help users have…

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. California is famous for its beach weather, but it’s also growing increasingly infamous for its “fire weather,” which is when high temperatures, strong winds, and low humidity combine to prime the landscape…

An unexpected constituency is sounding the alarm on climate change: U.S. mortgage bankers. Their predictions are dire: As climate change worsens and natural disasters wreak havoc on America’s housing stock, homeowners increasingly default on their mortgages. The ballooning financial losses force lenders to ratchet up interest rates. Fannie Mae and…

This summer, the Twofer-Pillikin forest health project, south of Lake Tahoe, was finally ready to go. Over the course of years, Forest Service scientists had fanned out to study some 10,000 acres of ponderosa and sugar pines. Hydrologists had charted the courses of ephemeral streams. Botanists had surveyed for rare…

UNITED NATIONS — Chinese leader Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China would not build new coal-fired power projects abroad, using his address at the United Nations General Assembly to add to pledges to deal with climate change. Xi provided no details, but depending on how the policy is implemented,…

Ahead of the Quad summit, US President Joe Biden held separate bilateral meetings with prime ministers Boris Johnson of United Kingdom and Scott Morrison of Australia to discuss the situation in the Indo-Pacific region and Afghanistan along with climate change and COVID-19. Biden met Morrison in New York Tuesday on…

KUALA LUMPUR: The system on climate change simulation and information developed by the National Water Research Institute of Malaysia (Nahrim), namely the Nahrim-Hydroclimate Data Analysis Accelerator (N-HyDaa) is able to help the country’s preparedness in reducing the risk of flood disasters. Nahrim director-general Datuk Dr Md Nasir Md Noh said…