The frequency and intensity of lightning strikes have risen sharply in South Asia since the 1970s. So have fatalities, especially…
Racism, the climate crisis and the world's worsening divisions took center stage at the United Nations on Wednesday, a day…
The world has never been more threatened or more divided, and is facing the "greatest cascade” of crises, UN Secretary…
Youth activists are hoping to turn up the heat on governments on Friday with the first large-scale international protest against…
Earlier this month, Climate Action Network, the world’s largest network of NGOs, called for the postponement of the UN Climate…
In the space of three months in early 2021, two glacial lakes in the Indian state of Uttarakhand burst their…
World leaders need to take immediate action to limit climate change, restore biodiversity, and protect health, according to an editorial…
The southern winter that just ended in New Zealand was the warmest ever recorded, and scientists say that climate change…
Spring 2020 had just begun in the Himalayas but for Kamla Devi, 36, a resident of Nathuakhan village, in the…
China needs to expand its efforts to reduce carbon emissions to help hold back the rise in global temperatures, US…
Activists around the world on Tuesday called on governments to put food systems at the forefront of tackling the climate…
Asia’s largest freshwater reserve is disappearing. In the Hindu Kush Himalayan region, which is warming by 0.3-0.7 degrees Celsius above…
As the Earth warms, frozen water in its many forms is affected. In mountainous regions like the Hindu Kush Himalayas,…
Extreme sea level events that previously occurred once in 100 years could happen every year by the end of this…
Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that…
Alok Sharma, the UK minister in charge of the COP26 climate summit talks in Glasgow in November, on Sunday warned…
Turkey's wildfires have left little behind, turning green forests into ashen, barren hills. The destruction is being intensely felt by…
More than 70% of snow leopard habitat remains understudied by conservationists, leaving conservation planning handicapped by large information gaps, according…
Thousands of people in Greece fled to safety from a wildfire north of Athens early on Friday, as firefighters waged…
The global economy’s business-as-usual approach to climate change has seen Earth’s “vital signs” deteriorate to record levels, an influential group…
It could be days before officials will be able to assess the damage done to a small town by California's…
Paul and Madeline Brasseur were at home with their two sons in the Belgian town of Pepinster when the water…
Once, the Asiatic black bear ranged as far west as Germany and France. Native to the hill forests of Asia,…
The death toll from devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium rose above 90 on Friday, as the…
Each day, more deaths are being linked to the heatwave that struck the Pacific Northwest this past week, with medical…
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