Environment

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...

Syria told the UN climate talks in Bonn on Tuesday that it would join the Paris Agreement, leaving the United States as the only nation in the world opting to stay outside the landmark treaty. “We...

News Hour Thousands of people have gathered in the German city of Bonn ahead of next week’s Cop23 conference, which ratifies the Paris climate deal. The protesters are calling for the measures set out in the...

News Hour Renewable energy continues to grow in the United States, despite US President Donald Trump’s moves to dismantle clean power, deregulate industry and promote fossil fuels like coal, experts say. Five months after Trump declared...

News Hour Extreme weather caused some $129 billion (111 billion euros) in economic losses last year, said a report Tuesday that warned the bill will keep climbing as climate change boosts droughts, storms and floods. There...

News Hour: A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of New Caledonia on Tuesday in the tectonically active Pacific region, but there was no tsunami threat, seismologists said. The tremor hit at a depth of 29...

News Hour Speakers at a programme here today said countries responsible for global carbon emissions should provide sufficient financial and technical support to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), including Bangladesh, to tackle the adverse impacts of...

News Hour The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has hit a new high, the UN said Monday, warning that drastic action is needed to achieve targets set by the Paris climate agreement. “Concentrations...

News Hour: The United States will play a big role at global talks next month on shaping the Paris agreement on climate change, to the dismay of some nations that want Washington sidelined because of President...

News Hour: Torrential rains in Nicaragua have left at least five people dead as rivers burst their banks, flooding homes, and damaging roads and bridges, the government said on Thursday. Two other people are missing in...