World leaders on Thursday approved the first United Nations declaration on sea level rise, affirming that nations losing land to the ocean will keep their statehood and maritime rights, as a new UN report warned that up to 1.2 billion people could be displaced by 2050. Championed by small island states, the declaration affirms a […] Continue reading ->
The evolution in the language of climate diplomacy took its latest step at the United Nations General Assembly this week as world and diplomatic leaders framed the push for green energy as a matter of national security amid energy price shocks driven by global wars. With COP31 fast approaching, the pitch reframes renewables as a […] Continue reading ->
More than 3,000 people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak out of 6,250 confirmed cases, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said Thursday, as the virus kills nearly half of those it infects and outpaces efforts to contain it. “The numbers are telling the story,” Dr […] Continue reading ->
The world has failed to meet the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5ºC, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) declared on Wednesday. In a sprawling 141-page report, UNEP found there is no realistic pathway to prevent warming from exceeding the threshold. “The most stringent emission reduction pathways that were available around the […] Continue reading ->
Twelve Red Cross volunteers have been injured and an ambulance set on fire in 11 violent incidents during the 100 days since the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared its Ebola outbreak, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement said Monday. Three volunteers taking part in response activities were attacked and injured by a […] Continue reading ->
The lung capacity of thousands of children stunted by traffic fumes on London’s streets recovered fully in the five years after the city imposed limits on its most polluting vehicles, a landmark study has found. The research, published Tuesday in The Lancet Public Health, tracked more than 3,400 children in London and Luton, a commuter […] Continue reading ->
When 175 countries unanimously voted in Nairobi in March 2022 to negotiate a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution, the move was hailed as the most significant step in global environmental negotiations since the Paris climate accord. Now, a year to the day after two weeks of talks and a 24-hour final negotiating marathon […] Continue reading ->
For nearly three hours on 29 July, the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee heard one sentence repeated over a hundred times. “On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.” Dr Anthony Fauci, the 85-year-old retired director of the National […] Continue reading ->
Panzi Hospital, a facility in South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a region overrun by a civil war that has displaced millions, recorded an 85% increase in newly reported survivors of sexual violence in the first six months of 2026 compared with the same period last year, according to a […] Continue reading ->
Nine miles south of the picturesque French city of Bordeaux, firefighters are at war with a phenomenon straight out of an apocalyptic epic. Scientists call them pyrocumulonimbus, or PyroCbs. NASA calls them the “fire-breathing dragon of clouds”. The port capital of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, normally bustling with tourists at peak season, is instead drowned in smog, so […] Continue reading ->