Tag: climate emergency

As losses from climate-fueled disasters rise, investment in cutting risks makes financial sense - and can solve multiple problems at once

"Floods, droughts, heatwaves, extreme storms and wildfires are going from bad to worse, breaking records with alarming frequency"

Pakistan is responsible for less than 1% of global GHG emissions, but is 8th on a list of countries deemed most vulnerable to extreme weather

Floods have ruined crops and homes across Pakistan, leaving many of the country's poor struggling to restart their lives

Disturbance of ecosystems as humans interact with wild species make future outbreaks and pandemics more likely

The flooding forced Bangladesh's third-largest international airport in Sylhet to shut down on Friday

As India and Pakistan struggled to cope with soaring temperatures, experts warn lack of access to cooling tech will cost lives

Every extra degree of global warming increases the amount of water in the atmosphere by about seven percent

There is no doubt that images of what climate change looks like no longer belong to the future but are happening now

There are currently at least 10,000 viruses that have the capacity to cross over into humans "circulating silently" among wild mammals