Climate Change

MALINDI, Kenya -- The unfinished restaurant is still little more than concrete walls and wooden beams. As her daughter sweeps away the last piles of sand, 54-year-old Nuru Mohammed directs women hanging fishing nets to serve as décor. In a few days, the beachside restaurant on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast…

The World Health Organization has identified climate change as the single greatest threat to global health in the 21st century. This crisis spans borders and political sentiment, and increasingly, physicians will be expected to provide climate-informed care. Surveys of healthcare professionals have shown that we, as medical trainees, are generally…

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Headlines, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Whether it is the middle or working classes, or even the well-to-do, life can start to shrink in the face of extreme weather. Credit: Shutterstock PARIS, Jul 3 2026 (IPS) - If you pay close attention to the rhetoric regarding climate change (at least in…

The Trump administration has secured a significant legal reprieve in its efforts to reshape the historical narrative within US national parks. A federal appeals court has issued a stay on an earlier ruling that would have compelled the National Park Service to reinstall dozens of exhibits concerning slavery, climate change,…

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is renowned for its coral, but far less so for its expansive seagrass meadows. “People don’t dive on them, don’t snorkel on them, and don’t go rock pooling on them,” said Emma Jackson, director of the Coastal Marine Ecosystems Research Centre (CMERC) at Central Queensland University...Read…

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The rainforests of the Congo Basin are the planet’s largest forested carbon sink: as these 3.3 million square kilometers (1.3 million square miles) of trees in Central Africa breathe in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, they turn it into leaves and bark and branches, helping to mitigate the effects of…

Hotter summers in Ireland mean people risk “suffocating” in A rated homes, a housing expert has warned.  Heatwaves have become increasingly frequent in Ireland, something that has significant repercussions for infrastructure and nature. On The Claire Byrne Show , Lorcan Sirr of TU Dublin explained that houses in Ireland have…

The weight of growing cities and falling groundwater levels can make the impacts of climate change worse. Credit: Shutterstock Sea-level rise is not just about the oceans. New research shows that sinking land is dramatically increasing flood risk in many coastal cities. As climate change pushes oceans higher, many of…