World Climate

Tropical Storm John has made landfall on Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, posing a significant threat of life-threatening floods, VOA reported on Tuesday. Initially a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 mph, it has since downgraded to a tropical storm…

Severe flooding in West and Central Africa has impacted over four million people across six countries, including Cameroon, Chad, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria, CBC News reported yesterday. The World Health Organization reports more than 1,000 fatalities and over 300,000…

As floods impact over 21 countries, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is calling for urgent investment to prepare vulnerable communities for increasing climate disasters, reliefweb reported yesterday. In 2023, climate extremes pushed 72 million people into hunger crises,…

Military operations worldwide, particularly by the US and Israel, are major contributors to carbon emissions, with wars turning humanitarian crises into environmental disasters, an article published on September 20 by Anadolu Agency revealed. The US Defense Department, the largest fossil…

The worst drought on record in Tefe, Amazonas state, has led to the tragic death of several freshwater dolphins, with researchers reporting an alarming increase in carcasses found along the lake’s receding shores, VOA reported today. Miriam Marmontel from the…

A recent UN report reveals an 80% likelihood that at least one of the next five years will see global temperatures exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, with a 47% chance that the five-year mean from 2024 to 2028 will surpass…

Storm Boris has caused severe flooding in central and eastern Europe, resulting in at least 15 deaths, Al Jazeera reported yesterday. Record rainfall has devastated regions in Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, and Austria, with Poland’s southwestern area particularly hard-hit,…

An international conference on climate change in West Africa commenced on Tuesday in the capital, Niamey, Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. The three-day event addresses the escalating climate disasters impacting nearly 28 million people in the Sahel region, including severe floods…

Antarctic sea ice is on track to hit a record winter low for the second consecutive year, raising alarms among scientists, The Guardian revealed in an article yesterday. Last year, sea ice extent was approximately 1.6 million square kilometers below…

A new UNICEF policy brief reveals alarming statistics regarding infant mortality in Europe and Central Asia, with over 5,480 infants dying from air pollution-related causes in 2021. This accounts for one in five deaths among children under one year old…