Indian authorities are helping farmers mount a pesticide spraying campaign to fight the swarms of desert locusts which have already devastated crops across Pakistan and
Around 10,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in central Michigan after heavy rain prompted what the National Weather Service called "catastrophic failures" at two dams.
Farmers faced with worst plague in recent history say they have been left to fend for themselves.
Mir Gul Muhammad, a farmer in Balochistan province, was blunt. “The worst that we have ever seen,…
In Kenya, the locusts are eating in one day the amount of food consumed by all Kenyans in two days, World Bank says.
The World Bank has approved a record $500m in grants and low-interest loans to…
Massive swarms of the voracious desert locust have been damaging crops and pastures and crippling communities in the Greater Horn of Africa, Arabian Peninsula and Southwest Asia since October 2019.…
US study identifies statistically significant trend in line with climate scientists’ predictions.
Tropical cyclones have become more intense around the globe in the past four decades, with more…
As the climate crisis takes hold, the effects are noticed most conspicuously at the extremes like the poles and the desert, where the harsh environments are drastically altered by a changing climate.
Cyclones in the Pacific and pandemics tell us a lot about global inequality and highlight our futile pursuit of profit.
In the midst of economic shocks and border closures caused by the coronavirus…
The eastern Indian city of Kolkata has been devastated by a powerful cyclone.
Cyclone Amphan made landfall in eastern India and Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people as it lashed…
Despite the global economic slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon appears to be continuing largely unabated with forest clearing over the past 12 months…
Scientists identify thousands of extreme events, suggesting stark warnings about global heating are already coming to pass.
Intolerable bouts of extreme humidity and heat which could threaten human…
'Coronavirus could kill, but hunger kills many more people'
COVID-19, desert locusts or torrential rains and floods — where should East Africa focus its attention among this “triple threat”?
As the…
NAIROBI - Floods and landslides in Kenya have killed nearly 200 people, displaced 100,000 and strained critical infrastructure, with unprecedentedly high water levels at two dams forcing the…
We found the first fire without looking, crackling and roaring on farmland beside the busy Amazon highway, the flames consuming a road sign with its name – BR-163 – lying in the grass. Trucks…
Hurricanes moving slowly over an area can cause more damage than faster-moving storms, because the longer a storm lingers, the more time it has to pound an area with storm winds and drop huge volumes…
Few places on the planet are more at risk from the climate crisis than south Florida, where more than 8 million residents are affected by the convergence of almost every modern environmental…
In a submission to the royal commission into natural disasters the Consumer Action Law Centre calls for an inquiry into insurance.
The climate crisis will make insurance unaffordable for many people…
New research finds 147 million will be hit by floods by the end of the decade – ‘the numbers will be catastrophic’.
The number of people harmed by floods will double worldwide by 2030, according to…
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