Climate

Extreme weather: China faces heat in north, floods in south

The average June temperature across the country hit the highest since 1961 while seasonal flooding was battering several regions.

Climate crisis ‘to devastate’ world’s poorest economies

More than a third of the world’s nations “urgently need help” to build up resilience if their economies are to withstand the effects of global warming.

Thousands hit Glasgow streets as part of global climate protests

Delegates from nearly 200 countries are in Glasgow to hammer out how to meet the Paris Agreement goals of limiting temperature rises to between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius.

Divers search for missing as toll from Turkey floods hits 79

Rescue teams working in area where Ezine Stream flows into Black Sea, local media report, more than a week after severe floods devastated parts of northwestern Turkey.

Greece fires now under control as reconstruction begins

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis appoints a new minister in charge of recovery from natural disasters in a bid to defuse growing anger over the struggle to curb wildfires that have charred thousands of hectares of forest.

UK hosts 51 countries to find 'common ground' on climate ahead of COP26

Environment and climate ministers from the US, India and China will be among those taking part in the closed-door meeting, which will be the first face-to-face ministerial meeting of its kind in more than 18 months.

UN says droughts pushing 400,000 people toward starvation in Madagascar

In 28 years working for WFP on four continents, Lola Castro, WFP’s regional director in southern Africa, said she had “never seen anything this bad” except in 1998 in Bahr el Gazal in what is now South Sudan.

Study: Rainforests in Africa slow global climate change despite record heat

Researchers have studied the impact of the worst El Nino weather event on record - in 2015-16 - on intact rainforests in six African nations: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia and Congo Republic.

Biden invites Russia, China to first global climate crisis talks

US President Joe Biden includes Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping among the invitees to the first big climate talks of his administration.

Evacuations in California after 'fire on all sides'

At least eight people have been killed and some 3,300 structures have been destroyed over the past three weeks in wildfires across the state.

Australian summers twice as long because of climate change – study

The report by the Australia Institute compared data from the past two decades with mid-20th century benchmarks of temperatures at the calendar start of seasons in temperate and sub-tropical parts of the country.

Earth had its hottest decade on record in 2010s – scientists

Scientists say Earth is probably the hottest it has been during the Holocene — the past 11,500 years or so — making it the warmest period since the dawn of civilisation.