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Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, p...
Market-based approaches to forest conservation like carbon offsets and deforestation-free certification schemes have largely faile...
Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding ki...
Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides in what has become the region's...
Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding ki...
Authorities in southern Brazil scrambled Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides that have killed at least 75 and...
Brazil mounts frantic rescue effort as flooding ki...
Authorities in southern Brazil raced against the clock Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides that have killed a...
Race against time to rescue Brazil flood victims a...
Authorities were racing against time on Sunday to rescue people from raging floods and mudslides that have killed more than 50 and...
Heatwave hammers Thailand's stinky but lucrative d...
Clambering hand-over-hand, sweat dripping into his eyes, a durian labourer expertly slices a cumbersome fruit from a tree before t...
Vietnam temperature records tumble as heatwave sco...
More than 100 temperature records fell across Vietnam in April, according to official data, as a deadly heatwave scorches South an...
Heatwave swells Asia's appetite for air-conditioni...
A record-breaking heatwave is broiling parts of Asia, helping drive surging demand for cooling options, including air-conditioning...
Rains, mudslides kill 29 in southern Brazil's 'wor...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday visited the country's south where floods and mudslides caused by torrent...
Kenya floods death toll rises to 188 as heavy rain...
The number of people who have lost their lives in devastating floods in Kenya since March has risen to 188, with dozens still miss...
Heat-struck Thai village hoists cartoon cat in des...
As millions across Southeast Asia suffer a blistering heatwave that is melting railway tracks, a Thai village resorted to an unusu...
New 'underground cathedral' opens ahead of Paris O...
It has no spire, stained glass windows or nave, but the cavernous underground stormwater facility set to be inaugurated in Paris o...
April temperatures in Bangladesh hottest on record
Bangladesh's weather bureau said Wednesday that last month was the hottest April on record, with the South Asian nation and much o...
'Have to be outside': Thai delivery riders swelter...
In Bangkok's central Siam Square, Suriyan Wongwan sweats while he waits to collect the food that he will deliver by motorbike as T...
Hong Kong team plants seeds to safeguard legacy gr...
Far from the soaring skyscrapers synonymous with Hong Kong, scientists and farmers labour in a paddy field on the city's outskirts...
G7 reportedly agrees end date for coal-fired power...
G7 energy ministers have agreed a time frame for phasing out coal-fired power plants, a British minister said Monday, as the UN wa...
G7 eyes possible end date for coal-fired power pla...
G7 energy ministers on Monday discussed a possible time frame for phasing out coal-fired power plants, as the UN warned "excuses"...
'It swept everything': Kenya villagers count toll...
The disaster struck in the dead of night, the villagers said, some still in shock over the deluge that engulfed their homes as a m...
With motorbikes banned, Yangon delivery riders str...
Delivery rider Than Toe Aung pedals his bicycle through a punishing heatwave in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon, where scooter...
The giant sheep helping Tajikistan weather climate...
In the hills outside the Tajik capital Dushanbe, shepherd Bakhtior Sharipov was watching over his flock of giant Hissar sheep.
Schools closed, warnings issued as Asia swelters i...
South and Southeast Asia braced for more extreme heat on Sunday as authorities across the region issued health warnings and reside...
'Everyone sits out': Yangon parks offer heatwave r...
As the sun sets on another scorching Yangon day, the hot and bothered descend on the Myanmar city's parks, the coolest place to sp...
Despite climate crisis, US Green Party struggling...
Climate change is a major issue on the US political agenda, yet the country's Green Party and its candidate Jill Stein are next to...
Clean energy drives massive BHP takeover bid
BHP's multi-billion-dollar bid to buy rival Anglo American promises to be the largest mining merger deal in decades, and one drive...
Oman, UAE deluge 'most likely' linked to climate c...
Global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions "most likely" exacerbated the intense rains that lashed the UAE and Oman last week,...
NGOs accuse ADB of funding Indonesia coal plants d...
Green NGOs have accused the Asian Development Bank of indirectly financing coal plants in Indonesia through a $600 million loan de...
Emperor penguins perish as ice melts to new lows:...
Colonies of emperor penguin chicks were wiped out last year as global warming eroded their icy homes, a study published Thursday f...
Extreme heat scorches Southeast Asia, bringing sch...
Extreme heat scorched parts of South and Southeast Asia Wednesday, prompting schools across the Philippines to suspend classes, he...
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the...
Extreme heat scorched the Philippines on Wednesday, forcing schools in some areas to suspend in-person classes and prompting warni...
Victims of China floods race to salvage property
Victims of severe floods in southern China raced on Wednesday to salvage property from the muddy waters, as authorities warned of...
Three dead, tens of thousands evacuated as storms...
Three people are dead and 11 others missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of t...
A leader in US seaweed farming preaches, teaches a...
Bren Smith and his GreenWave organization are helping lay the foundations for a generation of seaweed-growing farmers in the Unite...