Laurie Goering edits AlertNet Climate, the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s news website on the humanitarian and development impacts of climate change.
Scientists believe dangerous climate change "tipping points" are approaching - from surging sea levels as polar ice melts to fast-spiking temperatures as methane escapes thawing permafrost.
With new evidence that catastrophic climate-change "tipping points" are nearing - from surging sea levels as polar ice melts to spiking temperatures as methane escapes thawing permafrost ...
As global warming - driven by our use of oil, gas and coal - spawns more deadly heatwaves worldwide, what can newly sweltering countries learn from heat-hardy ones about ways to stay cool?
As fossil fuel emissions creep higher, warming up the planet, they are fuelling harsher, longer and more frequent heatwaves that can kill greater numbers of people.
Food prices around the world have soared to record levels this year as the Russia-Ukraine war slashes key exports of wheat and fertiliser from those countries, at the same time as drought...
The big shifts in thinking and large-scale funding needed to drive a swift global transition to a climate-smart economy are far behind schedule, even if most of the technology required al...
Adapting to fast-worsening climate change impacts will require not just more cash for hardier infrastructure, crops and other systems but also far more rapid cuts to planet-heating emissi...
While training for the London Marathon in 2014, Sadiq Khan - then a British parliamentarian from the southern London district of Tooting - found himself gasping for air during runs and di...
By now you've probably heard of COP26 - the shorthand name for the next major U.N. climate summit, rescheduled for November in Glasgow after being delayed a year by the coronavirus pandemic.
As climate change drives a surge in deadly disasters - and harsh scientific warnings of worse to come - young people are struggling with growing "eco-anxiety" about the future of the plan...
Efforts to push low-carbon lifestyles and green energy to curb climate change will fail unless many people see benefits - and the poorest and most vulnerable should get the biggest gains,...
专家表示，给热浪命名并划分强度等级（就像对待飓风一样），可以让人们清楚地认识到热浪的危险性。在美国，每年因高温而死的人数超过风暴与洪水，但却很少登上新闻头条。
西雅图、波特兰、美国太平洋西北地区和加拿大的其他城市的高温记录正在被打破，这些城市面临着比正常夏季最高温高出15摄氏度（30华氏度）的闷热温度。
Seattle, Portland and other cities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Canada are blasting past heat records, facing sweltering temperatures more than 15 degrees Celsius (30 degrees Fahrenh...
By now you've probably heard of COP26 - the shorthand name for the next major U.N. climate summit, rescheduled for November in Glasgow after being delayed a year by the coronavirus pandemic.
