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Residents fill water in drums from a supply tanker during the heatwave, in Chanakyapuri, on June 2, 2024 in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

UN forecasts La Nina could help lower temperatures this year

In many locations, especially in the tropics, La Nina produces the opposite climate impacts to El Nino, which heats up the surface of the oceans

Developing countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change are angry about a new text released at COP29 on Friday, which says developed countries must pay $250 billion a year until 2035 for climate action

Southern Africa ‘rapidly tracking towards climate disaster’

Global temperatures set to break records during next five years, warns World Meteorological Organisation

A general partial view of the snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro at sunrise from Kimana Sanctuary in Kimana, Kenya, on March 3, 2021. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate crisis causes meltdown of Africa’s three mountain glaciers

Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Rwenzori mountains are all retreating faster than the global mean

El Niño is expected to cause a loss of rainfall

No country, rich or poor, is immune from the health effects of climate change

A changing climate threatens to undermine the past 50 years of gains in public health

Fired up: Despite the health and climate change hazards caused by energy from fossil fuels, South Africa still relies on coal from mines such as Schonland near eMalahleni in Mpumalanga. (Wikus De Wet/AFP)

Covid-19 puts green energy in a coma

The pandemic has disrupted governments’ plans to flatline the upward trajectory of global warming

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Covid puts green energy in a coma

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted governments’ plans to flatline the upward trajectory of global warming

The harsh reality is that emissions have risen on average 1.5% annually over the last decade (Wahdi Setiawan/Reuters)

Slash emissions now or miss 1.5°C goal, UN warns

The UNEP said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6%, each year, every year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5°C

UN: Climate will alter travel patterns

Global warming will produce stay-at-home tourists over the next few decades, radically altering travel patterns and threatening jobs and businesses in tourism-dependent…

UN: Ozone hole reappears over Antarctic

The hole in the protective ozone layer over the Antarctic is forming again, but should remain just below the record size it reached last year, a scientist at the United Nations’s…