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27 09 2020 | 09:17

Internal displacements reach 15m in 2020 with worst 'still to come' – report.

Extreme weather, locust invasions and violence have forced people to flee their homes. Millions of people were uprooted from their homes by conflict, violence and natural disasters in the first six…

27 09 2020 | 09:16

'Too late to stop it': California's future hinges on managing megafires.

This year’s historic blazes and apocalyptic skies will become routine. Hope lies in rethinking how we live with fire.

27 09 2020 | 09:09

Climate change and forest management have both fueled today’s epic Western wildfires.

What is driving the wildfires that are ravaging California, Oregon and Washington? President Trump and state officials have offered sharply different views.

27 09 2020 | 08:37

Germany's New Climate Charter: What Will It Change?

The coronavirus pandemic has altered economic priorities for governments around the world. But as wildfires tear up the west coast of the United States and Europe reels after one of its hottest…

27 09 2020 | 08:01

Climate crisis 233m years ago reshaped life on Earth, say scientists.

Volcanic eruptions drove global heating, causing mass extinctions and ushering in dinosaur era. A mass extinction event sparked by a sudden shift in climate more than 200m years ago reshaped life on…

24 09 2020 | 12:41

Six African heritage sites under threat from climate change.

From rock art in southern Africa to pyramids along the River Nile, humans have been leaving their mark across the continent for millennia. But extreme weather events, the rise in sea levels and…

23 09 2020 | 11:00

Smoke From West Coast Wildfires Reaches East Coast, Europe.

The smoke from the wildfires devastating the West Coast of the U.S. has reached as far away as Europe, officials said Wednesday.

23 09 2020 | 10:02

Drought, plague, fire: the apocalypse feels nigh. Yet we have tools to stop it.

In climate change, the Four Horsemen have a perfect force of destruction. Maybe these fires and floods will be a wake-up call to stop stalling. As the west coast burns into an orange hellscape you…

21 09 2020 | 10:24

The tipping points at the heart of the climate crisis

Many parts of the Earth’s climate system have been destabilised by warming, from ice sheets and ocean currents to the Amazon rainforest – and scientists believe that if one collapses others could…

19 09 2020 | 10:36

Sudan floods threaten ancient archaeological site, experts say.

Sandbag walls set and water being pumped out of ruins of Al-Bajrawiya - site of Meroe pyramids, a World Heritage Site. Rising Nile floodwaters are threatening to swamp an ancient archaeological site…

19 09 2020 | 10:18

The future has arrived. These explosive fires are our climate change wakeup call.

Scientists have been warning of the growing threat of climate change, and now those projections are a reality. Like millions of people in the western United States this week, I woke up to deep red,…

19 09 2020 | 10:15

Wildfires are striking closer and closer to cities. We know how this will end.

The climate crisis is a factor, but so are efforts to fight fires - which have had the opposite effect. We call them wildfires, but that might not be the right word any more. In recent days, at…

15 09 2020 | 11:04

California's dark, orange sky is the most unnerving sight I've ever woken up to.

What is happening now is astonishingly worse than any previous fire season. We are in a new kind of era.

15 09 2020 | 11:04

Record-breaking 2.2 million acres burned by California wildfires.

There are more than 14,000 firefighters working across the state to contain around 25 major fires. California is having a record-breaking year of flames, as dozens of wildfires have set the state…

15 09 2020 | 10:55

California governor: 'We are in the midst of a climate emergency' – video.

The California governor, Gavin Newsom, said ‘this is not a world that anyone should be experiencing’ as he surveyed charred mountain terrain devastated by wildfires. ‘If you do not believe in science…

15 09 2020 | 10:39

State of emergency in Sudan after deadly floods.

Sudan is in a state of emergency after authorities declared the country a disaster zone last week because of heavy flooding that's killed around 100 people and inundated over 100,000 houses since…

11 09 2020 | 11:14

Even Climate Scientists Are Freaked Out By This Year’s Wildfires.

"We have not reached the peak. In fact, no one knows where the peak is,” one expert said. Across large parts of California, daylight never arrived on Sept. 9. Caught under a vast sheet of smoke…

07 09 2020 | 11:21

Pence Offers 'Prayers' as Hurricane Laura Hits Gulf Coast While Dismissing Climate Action at RNC.

Just hours before Hurricane Laura made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm with wind speed surpassing that of Katrina, Vice President Mike Pence delivered a Republican National Convention…

07 09 2020 | 10:23

Commentary: Climate change could be much worse than we are told.

Attacks on scientists examining the impact and scale of climate change have been growing as the evidence became more compelling through the years, says an observer. MANCHESTER: Thirty years ago, in…

31 08 2020 | 11:01

Antarctica: 60% of ice shelves at risk of fracture, research suggests.

Collapse of shelves would accelerate loss of Antarctic ice sheet and increase sea-level rise. Approximately 60% of Antarctica’s ice shelves could be vulnerable to fracture, accelerating the loss of…