In 2019 several meteorological records were broken. Extreme heat swept through large parts of Europe, India and elsewhere last summer. Nor were these heatwaves mere anomalies, according to the World Meterological Organization. According to the WMO, , a United Nations agency, this decade has been the hottest on record so […]

Research Post December 4, 2019 Is research capturing the multiple, overlapping climate risks farmers face? Alex De Pinto Adam Komarek From extreme weather to political instability, the risks in agriculture compound and reinforce one another.

Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: World Donations will go towards providing refugees with shelter, food, clean water, health-care, education and legal protection. The amount is equivalent to 9% of the total funds needed in 2020. At an annual pledging conference in Geneva today, donor governments pledged US$1.2 billion […]

North Korea will send a “Christmas gift” to the United States, but what that present contains will depend on the outcome of ongoing talks between Washington and Pyongyang, a top official has warned.

Russia switched on an enormous gas pipeline to China worth billions of dollars Monday, affirming increasingly close economic and political ties between the two countries.

The planet is teetering on the edge of climate catastrophe and we’re heading toward a point of no return, the United Nations’ Secretary-General António Guterres has warned. “By the end of the coming decade we will be on one of two paths. One is the path of surrender, where we […]