Tag: Climate Change
Pope Francis prays for victims of floods in Pakistan
Officials in Pakistan said this year's monsoon flooding has affected more than 33 million people, destroying nearly a million homes
Iraq’s Garden of Eden now ‘like a desert’
The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq's swamplands have been battered by three years of drought and low rainfall
Church offers ‘cooling centers’ to help poor beat heat as temperatures...
Heatwave mortality in India has increased by more than 60 percent since 1980, according to the country's Ministry of Earth Sciences
Pope Francis: The poor suffer the most from heat waves, drought
In a message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, the pope said that it is “the poorest among us who are crying out”
Global heating, human development could drive future waves of disease in...
Disturbance of ecosystems as humans interact with wild species make future outbreaks and pandemics more likely
Without land, Bangladesh’s Manta people live – and die – on...
Eroding Bangladeshi rivers stole their land - and now climate change and overfishing threaten the life they have built on water
Pacific leaders struggle to keep focus on climate at key summit
Geopolitical jostling between the United States and China has been building since Solomon Islands signed a security pact
Study says most Filipinos see climate change as something ‘personal’
About 82 percent of respondents in the Philippines consider the issue of climate change as either “extremely important” or “very important”
Hundreds of thousands evacuated in China after heaviest rains in decades
The downpours have dangerously swelled waterways in the low-lying Pearl River basin in recent days
59 dead, millions stranded as floods hit Bangladesh, India
The flooding forced Bangladesh's third-largest international airport in Sylhet to shut down on Friday
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