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The 5 Climate Disasters That Defined A Breaking Point In 2025

From heatwaves to floods and storms, these five disasters show how warming is overwhelming economies, systems and resilience worldwide. Read More

Researchers lower estimate of drop in global income due to climate change as journal retracts study

The researchers, writing in the journal Nature in 2024, had forecast a 19% drop in global income by 2050. Their revised analysis puts the figure at 17%. Read More

UN says world must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, biodiversity and land loss

The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss ... Read More

How a global ‘climate reset’ could change the fight against warming

It started in April, just after Earth Day, when former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his think tank, the Tony Blair Institute, called for a “radical reset” in the way the world tackles climate ... Read More

Bill Gates makes major climate change reversal after years of doomerism: ‘People will be able to live and thrive’

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who has spent more than a decade warning that the world was on the brink of unimaginable peril due to rising global temperatures, now says climate change “will not ... Read More

The climate crisis clashed with affordability, and affordability won

Climate action has become less urgent now that affordability is top of mind. The good news is, emissions are likely to decline anyway. Read More

Sri Lanka and the Global Climate Emergency: The Lessons of Cyclone Ditwah

The Cyclone Ditwah catastrophe was neither wholly new nor surprising. In 2015, the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) identified Sri Lanka as the South Asian country with the ... Read More