Climate Change

1 of 3 | Former President of the United States Bill Clinton speaks with His Holiness Pope Francis remotely Monday at the Clinton Global Initiative 2023 in New York City, as the pope urged unity in the world to tackle climate change "before it's too late." Photo by John Angelillo/UPI…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment led the UAE delegation at the 62nd meeting of the Standing Committee of Ramsar Convention, held at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) headquarters in Gland, Switzerland The meeting was held under the presidency of the People's…

Hong Kong CNN  —  September started with a typhoon that ripped through Hong Kong, uprooting trees and flooding the city. It was the first of a slew of extreme weather events that have hit ten countries and territories in just 12 days – the most catastrophic being the floods in…

After decades of being ignored, it would seem that the Global South has come into vogue. At the G-20 summit in Delhi this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it was the Global South’s priorities that drove India’s Presidency, and with developing countries Indonesia, India, Brazil and South Africa as…

Over the past twenty years, The Walrus has been a steady bellwether of must-read writing. For our 20th anniversary, we’ve collected works that still surprise us, impress us, move us. Here are some of the best pieces of journalism that we’ve published about the environment. Big Lonely Doug BY HARLEY…

In the five decades between 1970 and 2021, extreme climate events caused more than two million deaths and led to economic losses of $4.3 trillion, 60 percent of which occurred in developing countries, a U.N. report found A man stands on the cracked and dry bed of a canal on May 26, 2023 in…

Canadians are already tired of the deep division around issues such as gender, race, climate change and free speech. But we can't avoid it; rather we need to address it. Published Sep 15, 2023  •  Last updated 1 day ago  •  3 minute read The head of a statue of Sir…

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Meet the climate innovators of tomorrow A lot of bright minds are working on solutions to climate change. You can find some of them in the latest edition…

Afrobarometer with partners, including the United States Institute of Peace, the World Bank, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have met to discuss pressing issues affecting Africans and Afrobarometer’s latest survey findings on democracy, governance, climate change, and the youth. In a statement issued recently and signed…

The hospital was doing everything it could. It set up a separate unit to house COVID-19 patients. It imposed exhaustive hygiene measures to keep the virus from spreading. It even used ultraviolet light for sanitization, which at that time – July 2020 – was being marketed with great enthusiasm as a way to zap COVID particles out of thin air. Still,…