Stigma can stop women seeking help but Hawa Bah, who was cut at eight, reaches those suffering in silence to get them the care they need.
One night 14 years ago, Hawa Bah crept out of her house in …
In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically. This is one reason that the U.S. Department of Energy projects that renewable energy will be the fastest-…
Afghanistan's only girls' boarding school has evacuated dozens of students and staff to Rwanda, the president of the privately-run institution said Tuesday.
The move came days after the Taliban…
Warming sea and shifting food sources drive whales into areas where they risk ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear.
Climate change-induced warming in the Gulf of Maine has resulted in the…
Excellencies,
Distinguished guests,
Dear Colleagues,
I welcome today’s important dialogue on Accelerating Adaptation Solutions Ahead of COP26.
The Secretary-General has called the latest IPCC…
In a landmark ruling and a win for a bushfire survivors group, the Land and Environment Court has ordered the New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) to take steps to safeguard…
"The greatest threat to global public health is the continued failure of world leaders to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5C and to restore nature," says the editorial backed by hundreds of…
President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster declaration for Tennessee after record rainfall caused devastating floods that killed at least 22
President Joe Biden has approved a major disaster…
A recovering economy, and failures at Australia’s only operational carbon capture and storage project, have seen Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions rise in the first three months of 2021, a new…
US climate envoy John Kerry told Chinese officials that there was ‘no way’ for the world to solve the climate crisis without Beijing’s ‘full engagement and commitment’.
The US and China have reached…
Crews are cleaning up the slick, which spread at least 10 miles.
An oil spill spanning at least 10 miles has been captured by satellite imagery in waters off the Louisiana coast.
Crews are working…
The president warned that ‘we need to act now’ as trail of destruction blighted west, south and north-east.
The widespread destruction caused by extreme weather coast to coast, with Hurricane Ida…
The UK’s top climate adviser has pushed back strongly against “defeatist” criticism that the country’s net zero target is expensive, and urged the Treasury to pick up the currently “incremental” pace…
Fossil fuels are not going anywhere fast and will account for half of the primary energy mix in 2050, according to DNV’s Energy Transition Outlook 2021, published on Wednesday.
Natural gas will…
Saudi Aramco is investing, alongside the country’s sovereign wealth fund and Riyadh-based ACWA Power, in the oil exporter’s largest solar project with a capacity of 1.5 GW as the world’s biggest…
A recent poll found 57 per cent of American teenagers said that climate change made them feel scared.
The most comprehensive assessment yet from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (…
‘Planting trees over large areas is advantageous and should be done for climate purposes,’ professor says
Planting forests could cool the Earth’s atmosphere more than previously thought, a study…
The UK government has launched an investigation into renewable electricity deals amid growing concern over the extent of “greenwashing” by large energy firms claiming to offer environmental benefits…
China is pushing the US to resolve border issues to work on climate change
China’s foreign minister Wang Yi warned the US that the deteriorating relations between the world’s two largest economies…
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