Dadu, Pakistan (AFP): Noor Bibi lost her mother, her daughter and the roof over her head in the catastrophic floods that drowned Pakistan last summer. One year later she remains homeless, living with the remnants of her family in spartan tents marking where the village of Sohbat Khosa was gutted by the deluge in southern […]
Umm al-Aqarib, Iraq (AFP): Iraqi archaeological marvels that have survived millennia and the ravages of war now face a modern threat: being blasted and slowly buried by sandstorms caused by climate change. Ancient Babylonian treasures, painstakingly unearthed, are slowly disappearing again under wind-blown sand in a land parched by rising heat...
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): Visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed Tuesday for “massive” international support for Somalia as it battles a devastating drought and a grinding insurgency. Guterres, who arrived in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu earlier on Tuesday, described his trip as a visit of “solidarity.&#...
Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP): The death toll from a landslide on a remote Indonesian island rose to 30 after rescuers found more bodies on Thursday, an official said. The landslide struck Monday on Serasan Island, located in the Natuna region between Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia. “As of 11:50 am (0450 GMT) today, nine bodies have been [&he...
An infographic titled ”10 most devastating climate disasters of 2022″ in Ankara, Turkiye on December 27, 2022. The 10 most destructive climate disasters of 2022 caused more than $200 billion in damages.
GENEVA (AA) – International donors on Monday pledged over $9 billion to help Pakistan recover from the lethal floods that devastated the country last year. The commitments were made at the International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan in Geneva, jointly hosted by Pakistan and the UN. “The conference marked the beginning of a structure...
Baghdad, Iraq (AFP): Iraq’s prime minister has appealed to visiting Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni for closer economic ties with his oil-rich and war-ravaged country. Meloni, who leads the eurozone’s third-largest economy, was on a visit to Italian troops posted in Iraq in support of a mission to counter militant groups in the ...
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP): The United Nations has said that emergency food aid for devastated flood-hit communities in Pakistan would run out in January after a funding appeal received only a third of its target. Pakistan was lashed by unprecedented monsoon rains over the summer that put a third of the country under water, damaged two [&hellip...
BERLIN (AA) – The G-7 group of the world’s major economic powers has decided to establish an international climate club to tackle global warming, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced. “The Climate Club is not intended to be a G-7 initiative; rather, it is to be a global undertaking,” Scholz told a news conference in [&...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The Canadian government has unveiled a new CAN$1.6 billion ($1.2 billion) five-year climate action plan to help deal with storms, floods and forest fires. Canada has been hit with several disasters due to climate change. Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair announced the new strategy while in Prince Edward Is...
