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Climate-smart villages to come up in Tamil Nadu to protect state's agriculture against climate change
The impacts of climate change-fuelled changes not only affect individual farmers' livelihoods, but …
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The United Arab Emirates pursued nearly $100 billion worth of oil and gas deals the same year it led the global climate summit, analysis finds
The UAE closed more than a dozen deals to expand its oil and gas footprint at home and overseas, an…
Catherine Boudreau
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This ancient Gujarati city has stood strong against climate change for 2,500 years! Here's how they did it
It could be hard to picture a bustling metropolis in the middle of a semi-arid region battling cent…
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Over half of the Indian population is vulnerable to health threats spurred on by climate change
Further, the study’s authors also identified 38 districts with very high vulnerability, 306 with hi…
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The Baltimore bridge disaster is just the latest knock to global shipping and trade
The Dali, a cargo ship, collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday, shuttin…
Huileng Tan
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Meeting in the hottest year ever recorded, COP28 has a loaded agenda
With the two-week COP28 Climate Summit negotiations in Dubai starting this week, Power Shift Africa…
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The price of olive oil surges more than 100% to all-time highs as a Mediterranean drought threatens supplies
The average price of olive oil in August was 130% higher from a year earlier, surpassing levels not…
Zahra Tayeb
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“Untouchable” coral reefs in the deep Indian Ocean waters faced bleaching after 2019 warming, study finds
In a groundbreaking study, researchers have uncovered an alarming revelation — the deepest evidence…
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Brewing trouble: Beer on a path to become less flavourful and more expensive, thanks to climate change
A recent study has revealed that climate change is jeopardising the worldwide cultivation of aromat…
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Western warships are shooting down Houthi threats, but the Iran-backed attacks are still screwing up global trade
US, UK, and French warships are shooting down Houthi threats in the Red Sea, but there's s concern …
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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The amount of warming that world leaders collectively agreed to avoid? It's inevitable in the next 20 years, a new report suggests.
In the Paris agreement, 195 countries agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. A new …
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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Coffee prices have surged to multi-year highs amid a convergence of global supply headwinds
Arabica coffee hit a seven-year high on Thursday on low inventories in warehouses monitored by ICE …
Isabelle Lee
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Photos show the 'bathtub ring' along a parched Los Angeles reservoir as California's drought grows more dire
A drought emergency has been declared in 41 California counties. Dramatic images show one reservoir…
Ted Soqui
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Climate disasters are crippling the lives of more than 150 million children across Africa, a new report unveils
The report found that while at least 21.24 million children in Kenya are estimated to be affected b…
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80% of the biggest companies failed to curtail climate change-inducing pollution sufficiently in the past five years
The leading sustainability data provider found that the efforts of just 22 per cent of the world's …
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Extreme weather caused two million deaths, cost USD4 trillion over last 50 years
Over two million deaths and USD4.3 trillion in economic losses; that's the impact of a half-century…
ANI
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El Nino on the way, could wipe out $3 trillion of world economy
El Nino is on the horizon, which can lead to severe heat waves and droughts in many countries, incl…
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Side-by-side NASA satellite photos show Lake Mead at its driest since 1937
Satellites photos shared by NASA — taken in 2000, 2021, and 2022 — show Lake Mead receding over dec…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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California's sudden jump from withering drought to violent floods is a warning for the whole world
California isn't just drying out. Paradoxically, it's also getting wetter, as shown by the forceful…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Dozens of times drought, ice melt, and storm surge unearthed unusual and unsettling discoveries this year
As the world warms, old sites, ancient artifacts, rare fossils, and even human remains are being un…