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At least 151 people in central Nigeria have been killed following flash floods that destroyed homes and displaced thousands of residents, reports BBC News.
More than $14bn in low-carbon US energy investments have either been cancelled or delayed this year according to analysis by clean-energy business group E2 ...
Global temperatures are expected to rise to close to 2C above pre-industrial levels in the next five years, according to data from the WMO.
Dr Jerry Tjiputra, research professor at NORCE and BCCR. Dr Richard Sanders, director of the Integrated Carbon Observation System’s Ocean Thematic Centre at NORCE and BCCR. Dr Dagmara Rusiecka, EU ...
Global yields of wheat are around 10% lower now than they would have been without the influence of climate change, according ...
Children born in 2020 will face “unprecedented exposure” to extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts and wildfires, even if warming is limited to 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures.
This guest post is by: Aditya Valiathan Pillai, a doctoral researcher focused on extreme heat policy at King’s College London and a visiting fellow of the Sustainable Futures Collaborative (SFC).
This guest post is by: Wang Zhongying, chief national expert, China Energy Transformation Programme of the Energy Research Institute Kaare Sandholt, chief international expert, China Energy ...
Large-scale banana plantations in Latin America and the Caribbean could face a “dramatic” reduction in “suitable” growing area by 2080 due to rising temperatures, a new study warns. Banana production ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s forthcoming special report on climate change and cities has more women than men on its authorship team, for the first time in the organisation’s history ...
This guest post is by: Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and senior fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute A record surge of clean energy kept China’s ...