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Disasters cost $228 billion in housing losses every year (opens the publisher's site)
$228 billion is a staggering amount of money to find, but that’s exactly what communities around the world are faced with every year, to rebuild housing after disaster strikes.
In the Mekong Delta, a push to grow food with saltwater (opens the publisher's site)
For generations, farming in Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta has depended on a delicate bargain. The river flooded, retreated and flooded again, carrying freshwater and sediment across a flat landscape whose vast fields helped turn the country into one of the world’s leading rice exporter...
Amid heartache of Nepal flooding disaster, fear remains (opens the publisher's site)
Six weeks after Nepal’s deadly flooding disaster, communities are still struggling to rebuild their lives, but they will need sustained help as global warming increases the risk of another Himalayan catastrophe, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
‘Overshoot is not a reason to surrender’: UN calls for accelerated climate action ahead of COP31 summit (opens the publisher's site)
As world leaders prepare for November’s major COP31 climate summit in Türkiye, record-breaking heat, devastating floods and an unprecedented El Niño climate pattern are making global climate action ever more urgent.
El Niño speeds climate crisis and tests Latin America’s food security (opens the publisher's site)
From droughts to floods and fires, El Niño is exposing vulnerabilities in Latin America’s food systems by putting farmers, food supplies and household budgets under growing pressure across the region.
From drought to deluge: ‘Super’ El Niño’s expanding reach (opens the publisher's site)
Across Papua New Guinea, water sources are drying up, crops are failing and food prices are rising months before the worst agricultural impacts are expected. Behind those warning signs is an El Niño whose Pacific Ocean temperatures have already surpassed the equivalent measuremen...
Young people are bridging the climate divide for Oceania and the Caribbean (opens the publisher's site)
“The lack of strong and consistent climate policy means that every year, families lose loved ones, homes, and entire livelihoods because of climate-related disasters.”
Security, sacrifice or opportunity: Visions differ over effective climate action (opens the publisher's site)
Should the world move away sharply from fossil fuels, or manage a slower, more careful retreat?
‘He felt heard’: How a film brought a UN report to life in Xochimilco (opens the publisher's site)
A documentary drawn from United Nations University research was screened at the COP30 climate conference and film festivals across Europe. Its most important journey, though, was the one back to the Mexico City canals where it was filmed.
Uganda’s UN-supported wildlife forensics lab turns ivory seizures into convictions (opens the publisher's site)
The package originated in Entebbe, Uganda, bound for Cairo, containing 10 kilograms of thumb-sized pieces that could have been either bone or elephant ivory.
Rotting food waste emits 5 times more greenhouse gases than planes (opens the publisher's site)
Rotting food waste is causing up to 10 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions – five times more than the entire aviation sector, the UN’s environment agency warned this week.