Megan Rowling is a journalist for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, covering the latest developments in humanitarian crises, aid, climate change, governance and women’s rights. She specialises in the impacts of climate change on developing countries, and solutions to this growing problem, including disaster risk reduction and climate finance.
In early 2018, parched by a severe drought, Cape Town rallied its residents and businesses to slash water use and stop its taps running dry. Now, lessons from the water crisis are helping...
The novel coronavirus outbreak has starkly exposed inequalities worldwide and could set back human development for the first time since 1990, the United Nations said on May 20th .
The UN has announced its $2 billion dollar plan to tackle coronavirus in the world's most vulnerable countries.
As flames and smoke from burning bushes billowed towards them, Catalan firefighters calmly controlled the progress of a planned fire on a forested hillside - an exercise aimed at reducing...
Many wealthy nations are letting the world’s younger generations down by failing to curb planet-warming emissions, a U.N.-backed report said on Wednesday, warning climate change posed an ...
Population growth, more intense rainfall and melting ice are likely to cause more frequent and severe floods.
Human health is paying the price of the world's failure to curb global warming, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday, urging governments at U.N. climate talks to cut climate-ch...
People are three times more likely to be displaced by cyclones, floods or fires than by conflicts.
A growing push to put cities on a digital path to a greener future risks excluding groups like the poorest, disabled and elderly, and will fail to benefit those people unless technology i...
Governments, development banks and businesses are providing less than 1% of the money needed each year to wean 3 billion people off dirty, health-harming cooking by an international deadl...
Cities are vital to limit global warming because they are home to more than half the world's population and generate three-quarters of carbon emissions.
A device that can monitor health threats to firefighters in real-time has received an award from IBM that will help roll it out more widely.
Five wealthy nations have promised new contributions worth almost $6 billion to the U.N.-backed Green Climate Fund, which is seeking to refill its coffers this year to ramp up efforts to ...
Countries in the northern hemisphere can expect longer summer heatwaves, as well as more consecutive days of heavy rain with harmful consequences, if internationally agreed goals to limit...
Indigenous peoples said on Thursday that a United Nations report on climate change had for the first time recognised their land rights as important for curbing global warming.
