Tag: Climate

Kenya and other developing countries walked out of a meeting, rejecting a $300 billion new public climate finance.  While at ...

Tanzanian climate activists decried restrictions by the Kenyan Immigration Department at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). The activists from ...

A vast belt of trees vital for global production of fizzy drinks helps Sudanese farmers adapt to climate change, but ...

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is heading for an 11-day trip to Africa starting this week, aimed at deepening economic ...

Egyptian artist Bahia Shehab had one goal at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt: to let people experience the "hell" ...

All regions of the world saw water extremes last year, both floods and droughts, and billions of people had insufficient ...

US climate envoy John Kerry urged Pacific Island states on Thursday to join global efforts to cut methane emissions in ...

The sound of chirping birds drowns out the noise of passing cars near a school on the southern tip of ...

South Africa's president, whose coal-dependent country is among the world's top polluters, Tuesday criticized international funders for making it difficult ...

The United Arab Emirates and Egypt agreed Tuesday to develop one of the world's largest wind farms in a deal ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres warned world leaders at a climate summit in Egypt on Monday that humanity faces a stark ...

Pollution in Africa's fast-expanding cities is deadlier than thought, yet green solutions could save tens of thousands of lives and ...

Country climate pledges leave the world on track to heat by as much as 2.6 degrees Celsius this century, the ...

Mechanical diggers are hard at work in the bleak landscape of the Moanda open-cast mine in Gabon, using giant jaws ...

The new offshore gas terminal appears through the morning mist cloaking the Atlantic Ocean near Saint Louis, where Senegal meets ...

Miner Thokozani Mtshweni, 37, looks spent as he readies for a 12-hour shift huddled under a carport shelter to avoid ...

More than six hundred people are now known to have perished in the worst floods in a decade in Nigeria, ...

Climate change risks undermining global energy security unless the use of renewables is dramatically scaled up, the UN warned Tuesday, ...

Flooding caused by heavy rains in the West African state of Niger has claimed two hundred lives and affected more ...

Africa needs time and money to wean itself off fossil fuels to achieve net zero without jeopardizing its future, its ...

In the blistering desert of Morocco, the country's last Berber nomads, the Amazigh, say their ancient lifestyle is under threat ...

Environment ministers from about fifty countries will gather in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday for a "pre-COP27" climate ...

Earth's climate is changing so quickly that humanity is running out of chances to fix it, primatologist Jane Goodall has ...

Nigeria rice farmer Adamu Garba squelched barefoot through his paddy fields, surveying damage from devastating floods that have destroyed farmland ...

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate recently traveled to the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa to hear from children suffering from starvation. ...

US climate envoy John Kerry on Thursday urged African countries to help overcome divisions between rich and poor nations at ...

The world's poorest countries say they will insist that the UN's upcoming climate talks push ahead with proposals for a ...

Mounds of waste scattered along roads and vast landfills are a Nigerian eyesore. In Africa's biggest economy and most populous ...

In her 40 years living by the water's edge, Amissa Irakoze never much feared Lake Tanganyika. Floods were frequent, even ...

Devastating floods left 253 dead in the South African city of Durban, the provincial health chief said Wednesday, after hillsides ...