Laurie Goering edits AlertNet Climate, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s news website on the humanitarian and development impacts of climate change.
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...
In the Indian community of Mahewa, when monsoon floods come, women start to eat and drink as little as possible.
Asia has the largest number of people exposed to natural disasters, but African countries are the most vulnerable to them, largely because of political instability, corruption, poverty an...
