Laurie Goering edits AlertNet Climate, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s news website on the humanitarian and development impacts of climate change.
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.
London high-school student Anna Taylor used to lament the lack of protest in Britain over what she saw as the growing threat of climate change - until her friends told her it was time to ...
Despite promising a decade ago to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, the world's leading economies more than doubled subsidies to coal-fired power plants over three years, putting climate g...
From homeowners facing higher flood insurance premiums to investors putting money into coal-fired power plants, financial risks related to climate change are growing, analysts say.
Climate change threats - from worsening water shortages in Iraq and Pakistan to harsher hurricanes in the Caribbean - are a growing security risk and require concerted action to ensure th...
Rising heat and wilder weather linked to climate change make it "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century", with hundreds of millions more people already suffering in the last...
A few years ago, Thabo Ngwato's job prospects looked bleak.
With a single smartphone app, you can now get a pretty accurate forecast of the weather anywhere in the world. That's largely thanks to a decision by science agencies, a decade ago, to pu...
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