The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
Year after year, global climate meetings take place in one part of the world or another, ever since 1995, with the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP) having taken place in November
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Tehran was blanketed in a surreal and dangerous mix of black smoke and rain on March 8, following Israeli drone strikes on massive oil depots and refineries just outside the city. The
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In 2025, Britain’s demand for coal fell to just under 1 million tonnes, the lowest level since 1600, a year when Queen Elizabeth I reigned and William Shakespeare’s works first graced the
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Kenya and Somalia are facing a deepening drought emergency that is devastating pastoralist livelihoods, driving distress sales of livestock, and raising the risk of conflict over scarce resources, according to reporting by
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A new study from the University of Oxford has found that nearly 3.8 billion people worldwide could face extreme heat by 2050, highlighting a climate threat that will hit tropical nations hardest
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Global ocean temperatures climbed to some of the highest levels ever recorded in 2025, underscoring the relentless accumulation of heat within the Earth’s climate system and intensifying alarm among scientists. According to
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Sri Lanka’s central hill country experienced an unusual cold snap this week as Nuwara Eliya recorded a minimum temperature of 3.5 degrees Celsius in the 24 hours ending at 8.30 a.m. on
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The year 2025 was officially the world’s third-warmest year on record, with average temperatures just 0.01 degrees Celsius cooler than 2023, according to data released Wednesday by the European Centre for Medium-Range
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Scientists have warned that global carbon emissions must be reduced by nearly 50% by 2030 to keep temperature increases within 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Current trends, however, show nations falling
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Climate change has compounded natural disasters, making them increasingly complex and challenging to manage as security issues, particularly for climate-vulnerable states with inadequate infrastructure. Pakistan, one of the countries most exposed to
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Climate change is often discussed in numbers, targets, and pledges. Yet for millions across the world’s most vulnerable states, climate change is not a statistic. It is loss, grief, and survival. Pakistan’s
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Australia faces a growing risk of missing its 2035 climate targets unless it implements deeper reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a government report released on Thursday. Current projections indicate emissions
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The African Development Fund (ADF) has approved a $14.64 million grant to scale up climate resilience initiatives across the Sahel, the African Development Bank Group announced following the Board’s decision in Abidjan
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In Norse mythology, Thor is the protector who stands firm when storms gather. He does not cause destruction but faces it head on, holding the line so that others may survive. In
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Almost similar to the 29 earlier COP (Conference of the Parties) that were organized in different venues around the world each year, COP 30 at Belem in Brazil also started with high
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