climate change

Global warming is on track to wipe out 70 percent of the world’s King penguins by century’s end, putting the regal birds on a path towards extinction, researchers warned Monday. As climate change drives away the...

8-day long cycle campaign starts today (26 February) in the greater Mymensingh city in Bangladesh to increase knowledge about climate issues and create awareness among the peoples of northern parts of the country. With the help...

Climate change and the impact it has on national and international security was not included in the US national defense strategy, unveiled by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Friday. The move is perhaps not surprising given...

Australia sweltered through its third-hottest year on record in 2017 despite the lack of a warming El Nino weather phenomenon, official figures showed Wednesday. Seven of the vast continent’s 10 warmest years have occurred since 2005,...

Countries in the Pacific should step up their efforts to adapt to more extreme weather conditions and mitigate disaster risks to improve the region’s economic growth and development prospects, according to the latest issue of the...

With sheet metal roofs, concrete floors, poor ventilation and spotty electricity, crowded urban slums in Africa can expect to get even hotter and deadlier due to global warming, US researchers said Monday. Scientists at Johns Hopkins...

News Hour social enterprise SOLshare has successfully piloted the world’s first ICT-enabled peer-to-peer electricity trading network for rural households with and without solar home systems in Shariatpur, Bangladesh. Current solar home systems are limited in capacity...

News Hour Today, Québec Premier Philippe Couillard, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and California Governor Edmund G. Brown further strengthened their cooperation in the global fight against climate change. Premier Couillard hosted Premier Wynne and Governor Brown...

News Hour Scientists freely acknowledge they don’t know everything about how global warming affects hurricanes like the one pummelling southeast Texas. But what they do know is enough to keep them up at night. The amplifying...

News Hour Pope Francis is to set out a manifesto challenging world leaders to do more for the protection of refugees and migrants, in a move the Vatican hopes will galvanize action in the same way...