Somalia: ‘The worst humanitarian crisis we’ve ever seen’
Children starving to death ‘before our eyes’ say aid workers as G7 leaders warned only ‘massive’ and urgent funding will avert famine Only a “massive”...
Category : Environment
First hurricane of 2022 season makes landfall in Mexico
Analysis: Hurricane Agatha kicks off what is forecast to be another busy period of Atlantic storms The first hurricane of 2022 for the eastern Pacific...
Spain and Morocco feel the heat as unseasonal snow falls on Colorado
Analysis: high temperatures affect southern Europe, while in US state mercury rapidly drops more than 30C Extremely hot and mostly sunny conditions have been experienced...
Egypt says climate finance must be top of agenda at Cop27 talks
Host of November’s summit wants focus to be on ‘moving from pledges to implementation’ Financial assistance for developing countries must be at the top of...
France and Spain swelter as Cyclone Yakecan wreaks havoc in South America
Analysis: Another week of extremes with peaks pushing 40C in Spain and a rare subtropical cyclone in Uruguay and Brazil Unseasonably high temperatures have been...
Mexican farmers demand redress for illegal mining and violence on their land
Owners of community land bought shares to join annual meeting of Fresnillo, a Mexican FTSE 100 company Mexican farmers have travelled to London to demand...
Rejection of Arctic mine expansion bid offers hope for narwhal population
Conservationists and Inuit community relieved at decision on Canadian iron mine that threatened ‘extirpation’ of cetacean The expansion of an iron ore mine in the...
South Africa’s April floods made twice as likely by climate crisis, scientists say
Brutal heatwave in India and Pakistan also certain to have been exacerbated by global heating, scientists say The massive and deadly floods that struck South...
‘Record after record’: Brazil’s Amazon deforestation hits April high, nearly double previous peak
Climate analysts are astounded by such a high reading during the rainy season, and is the third monthly record this year Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon...
Canadian police fatally shoot polar bear that wandered into Quebec community
Bear had wandered hundreds of kilometres south of species’ territory in incident experts say could become more common Canadian police have shot and killed a...
