Conflict, extreme weather worsening hunger in West and Central Africa, WFP warns
Dakar, Senegal Reuters Some 52 million people in West and Central Africa will struggle to meet their basic food and nutrition needs in the upcoming lean season, driven by conflict, extreme weather and economic deterioration, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. In the lean season – a period between harvests when food supplies […]
Essay: Modern slavery and climate change – how extreme weather fuels forced labour and unwanted marriages
Legal scholar DANIEL OGUNNIYI, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at the intersection of climate change and modern slavery in Africa today…
Extreme weather raises hunger risk in Latin America, UN says
Santiago, Chile Reuters Climate variability and extreme weather events stalk at least 20 Latin American countries and increase the risk of hunger and malnutrition in the region, according to a multi-agency United Nations study published on Monday. The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean are heavily dependent on farming, ranching, forestry and fishing, agricultural […]
“Not an act of God”: How Rev Richard Joyner became a farmer, then a climate activist
Richard Joyner has a new rejoinder to his congregants: “God is not flooding the land. Our behaviour is destroying the environment.” YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports…
Adapt or die: Bangladesh joins the race to climate-proof cities
MD TAHMID ZAMI, of Context, reports that Bangladesh’s congested capital Dhaka has joined the ranks of South Asian cities drawing up plans to prepare for a hotter, wetter future…
Experts warn of hail, whirlwinds in Mexico after new heat record in the capital
Mexico City, Mexico Reuters The third heat wave suffocating dozens of states in Mexico could give way on Sunday to torrential rains, hail and even whirlwinds during the afternoon in the centre of the country, meteorologists said. The warning came after the capital registered another record-breaking maximum of 34.7 Celsius the day before. A collapsed […]
UN sounds ‘Red Alert’ as world smashes heat records in 2023
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Every major global climate record was broken last year and 2024 could be worse, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday, with its chief voicing particular concern about ocean heat and shrinking sea ice. The UN weather agency said in its annual State of the Global Climate report that average temperatures […]
More than 1,000 Ukrainian towns lose power due to extreme winter weather
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Ukraine’s power grid operator said on Tuesday severe winter weather left more than 1,000 towns and villages without electricity in nine regions and urged residents to conserve power as the energy system has been weakened by Russian strikes. Electricity consumption was at this week’s highest levels as temperatures fell to about -15 […]
Mental health: Climate change takes heavy toll in Bangladesh
MD TAHMID ZAMI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that as Bangladesh faces increasingly extreme weather from floods to storms, psychologists fear rise in anxiety and depression…
“Global boiling”: Billions already suffer in heat over 1.5 degree limit
Many people live with temperatures above the Paris Agreement’s ceiling for global warming as land heats faster than the oceans. ALISTER DOYLE, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…