Laurie Goering edits AlertNet Climate, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s news website on the humanitarian and development impacts of climate change.
Cash-short Africa will need "frugal innovation" based on simple, local solutions to deal with serious and growing problems, from climate change to a surging youth population and a lack of...
China, which long targeted rapid industrial growth despite its environmental consequences, now aims to become the global leader in "low-carbon tech for a carbon-constrained world" as it u...
When severe drought hit south and southeast Asia in 2008, harvests fell, global rice exports shrank and prices shot up as much as 200% around the world - spurring food riots over rising c...
Earlier in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic forced a year's delay to planned U.N. climate talks in Glasgow - originally set to start on Monday - young climate activists chafed that no in...
研究人员称，在过去的25年里，占全球人口10%的最富有人群所排放的温室气体是占全球50%的贫穷人口排放量的两倍，原因在于他们经常乘坐飞机，热衷于驾驶SUV，而且消费数额巨大。
Prone to frequent flying, a passion for SUVs and big spending, the richest 1% of the world's population produced twice as many planet-heating emissions as the poorest half of humanity ove...
Giving heatwaves names and strength ratings, as for hurricanes, could drive home the spiking danger from a threat that kills more people in the United States each year than storms and flo...
In recent decades, Costa Rica has doubled its forest cover while tripling the size of its economy - an example of how better protecting nature can create jobs rather than curb them, the C...
As countries worldwide have started easing lockdowns imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic, what key policy changes could get economies moving again, take advantage of what we've learn...
The pandemic has revealed the extent of vulnerability to unexpected crises - and how much work is needed to change that.
People are three times more likely to be displaced by cyclones, floods or fires than by conflicts.
The technology allows slumdwellers and rural villagers with simple mobile phones to effectively create their own local currencies to bootstrap development.
London - Wealthier countries on Friday promised nearly $9.8 billion over the next four years to an international fund to help poorer nations develop cleanly and adapt to climate stresses,...
People in Britain whose homes are damaged by floods, storms or other wild weather are 50% more likely to suffer mental health problems such as depression or anxiety - even if they do not ...
In decades to come, African farmers may pool their money to buy small robot vehicles to weed their fields or drones that can hover to squirt a few drops of pesticide only where needed.
