Alberta’s party leaders are ignoring the climate crisis while the region burns
Monday’s election is going to be a political nail-biter but neither candidate has discussed a post oil and gas world Record-breaking wildfires have charred more...
Category : Environment
Outcry as Brazil congress moves to gut environment and Indigenous ministries
Plan to drastically dilute bodies’ powers would deal severe blow to Lula’s attempt to reverse Bolsonaro’s era of Amazon devastation Brazilian activists have voiced outrage...
Sierra Leone’s symbolic Cotton Tree falls during storm in Freetown
Centuries-old Ceiba pentandra marked where formerly enslaved people had prayed upon arrival in west Africa A centuries-old tree that served as a historic symbol in...
Heavy rains in Canada offer relief from wildfires but could lead to flooding
Crews hope wet weather could be ‘turning point’ after worst start to fire season on record in which area the size of Wales has burned...
Cocoa planting is destroying protected forests in west Africa, study finds
Global trade in chocolate, worth more than $1tn a year, is leading to widespread deforestation in Ivory Coast and Ghana The world’s hunger for chocolate...
‘No one saw this level of devastation coming’: climate crisis worsens in Somalia
Torrential rain, coming on top of the country’s worst drought in four decades, has forced 250,000 people to leave their homes Jamal Ali Abdi has...
Developing country voices ‘locked out of the room’ at UN plastic waste talks
Limits on NGO numbers at Paris summit mean some of those ‘most needing to be heard’ will not feature Scientists and NGOs have accused the...
‘The city was underwater’: quarter of a million Somalis flee flooded homes
Climate crisis a key factor in flash flooding of Beledweyne as rains end drought and Shabelle River breaks its banks Floods have caused almost a...
Weather tracker: Cyclone Mocha batters Bangladesh and Myanmar
Refugee camps bear brunt of deadly category-5 storm, while temperature divide is expected in North America Cyclone Mocha brought strong winds and torrential rain to...
Canada: extreme ‘heat dome’ temperatures set to worsen wildfires
System – extremely rare for this time of year – likely to fuel fires that have already displaced tens of thousands of residents Western Canada...
