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Boys swim in the Buriganga River near Dhaka during a heat wave in May 2024.

Conserving & restoring waterways can mitigate extreme urban heat in Bangladesh

Riley Comstock 20 Aug 2024
Seema Devi and other women from her village line up at the aquifer beneath the newly constructed field that doubles as a helipad.

Uttarakhand villagers thirst for water as tourism, temps & development rise

Swati Thapa 9 Aug 2024
A common Jezebel (Delias eucharis).

Scientists are racing to save South Asia’s butterflies from the threat of extinction

Hailey Smalley 31 Jul 2024
Indigenous elder of the Pataxó tribe in Brazil. Photo credit: Brastock Images. Licensed via Adobe Photo Stock

2023’s top 10 Indigenous news stories (commentary)

Joan Carling, Joseph Itongwa, Juan Carlos Jintiach 28 Dec 2023
A man in the western Chuadanga district splashes water on his face from an irrigation pump to get relief from the heat.

‘Alarming’ heat wave threatens Bangladesh’s people and their food supply

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 28 Apr 2023
Parmet with his youngest son, Zaidimu.

Extreme heat takes a toll on tropical countries’ economies

Calvin Rock Odhiambo 13 Jan 2023
An orange-tip butterfly.

Climate change is hammering insects — in the tropics and everywhere else: Scientists

Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2022
A moray eel among corals

‘Mind-blowing’ marine heat waves put Mediterranean ecosystems at grave risk

John Cannon 13 Sep 2022
Drought in India.

What’s the chance of meeting Paris climate goal? Just 0.1%, study says

Mongabay.com 29 Aug 2022

2°C warming limit? More like 3°C and hotter, leading climate scientists say

Mongabay.com 2 Nov 2021

Extreme heat exposure in cities tripled in less than 35 years, study finds

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Oct 2021

Children born in 2020 will see spike in climate disasters, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 30 Sep 2021

Record heat waves are a taste of what’s to come under a changing climate

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 Jul 2021

Study sounds latest warning of rainforest turning into savanna as climate warms

Malavika Vyawahare 31 Mar 2021
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burning throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Photos show scale of massive fires tearing through Siberian forests

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jul 2020

Dangerous levels of heat and humidity rising in frequency, study says

Ashoka Mukpo 13 May 2020

Research links specific 2017 extreme weather events to climate change

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2019

‘Intolerable’ heat waves likely to hit Persian Gulf by 2100

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Oct 2015

Alaska roasting: new NASA map shows the Final Frontier in grip of January heatwave

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2014

Climate change to increase violent crime

Fiona Harvey 6 Aug 2013

NASA image shows nearly ice-free Alaska as temps top 96 degrees

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2013

Climate change already pummeling U.S. according to government report

Jeremy Hance 14 Jan 2013

Australia reels from record heatwave, fires

Jeremy Hance 9 Jan 2013

World Bank: 4 degrees Celsius warming would be miserable

Jeremy Hance 20 Nov 2012

Obama breaks climate silence at press conference

Jeremy Hance 14 Nov 2012

It’s not just Sandy: U.S. hit by record droughts, fires, and heatwaves in 2012

Jeremy Hance 5 Nov 2012

One in eight people suffer from malnutrition worldwide

Jeremy Hance 16 Oct 2012

Over 70 percent of Americans: climate change worsening extreme weather

Jeremy Hance 10 Oct 2012

July 2012: hottest month in U.S. history

Jeremy Hance 8 Aug 2012

Extreme heatwaves 50 to 100 times more likely due to climate change

Jeremy Hance 5 Aug 2012

Featured video: climate change bringing on the extremes

Jeremy Hance 24 Jul 2012

Northern Hemisphere experiences warmest June on record

Jeremy Hance 17 Jul 2012

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