climate change

Climate activists heckle Germany’s Laschet at election rally

BREMEN, Germany (AFP) - Climate activists on Thursday heckled Armin Laschet, the conservative candidate seeking to replace Chancellor Angela Merkel, disrupting…

World leaders will hold closed-door climate meet at UN

UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host a closed-door…

Climate and weather related disasters surge five-fold over 50 years, but early warnings save lives – WMO report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrLaT1wyLaE   Climate change and increasingly extreme weather events, have caused a surge in natural disasters over the past 50…

Hurricane Ida pummels Louisiana, knocks out power in New Orleans

Powerful Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana, leaving at least one dead and knocking out power for…

Evacuations, fear as Hurricane Ida grows to Category 4 storm

Hurricane Ida was upgraded to a Category Four storm, the US National Hurricane Center said Sunday, staying on course to…

At least 20 dead after torrential rains in Venezuela

  MÉRIDA, Venezuela (AFP) -- The death toll from heavy rains that triggered mudslides and floods in western Venezuela has…

Japan braces for more rain after floods, landslides

Japan braced for further downpours on Sunday as rescuers sifted through flood and landslide damage after record rain that left…

US agency reports July was world’s hottest month on record

    by Lucie AUBOURG Agence France Presse July was the hottest month globally ever recorded, a US scientific agency…

UN climate report ‘starkest warning yet’ warns COP26 chief

An upcoming UN report on climate change gives the international community its clearest ever warning about the dangers of accelerating…

Biden lauds Pacific Island nations in tackling ongoing challenges of pandemic, climate change

by Alfred Acenas (EBC Hawaii-Pacific) HONOLULU (Eagle News) - At the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting on Friday, August 6,…

Hundreds of families homeless as Greek fires rage, rain saves Turkey

Hundreds of firefighters fought fires that have devoured record numbers of woodlands in Greece on Saturday and left hundreds of…

Heatwave causes massive melt of Greenland ice sheet

Greenland's ice sheet has experienced a "massive melting event" during a heatwave that has seen temperatures more than 10 degrees…

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