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Hurricanes buffeting the U.S. with ferocious winds and downpours, fires raging close to urban centers, fog and smog covering cities in South Asia and China, flooding and sizzling heat in Western Europe, tsunamis hitting Japan and...

Each new fashion comes with its own price tag. But fashion extends to so many areas of human activity, products and ingredients ranging from clothes to chemicals to leather and artwork. Collectively, fashion has a price...

The year 2019 has begun ominously with record chilly winter in North America making Chicago colder than parts of the Mars and one of the hottest summers baking Australian cities. Between the two extreme scenarios have...

Despite warnings of cataclysmic consequences from deteriorating environment and rising temperatures, several factors including distrust among nations, and Washington’s politically espoused positions are hindering movement toward implementing the goals of Paris Climate Agreement. Around 100 government...

A Pakistani-American teenager Mishka Banuri has won the Brower Youth Award in recognition of her efforts to spotlight climate change issues in the traditionally conservative state of Utah. The 17-year-old from Salt Lake City helped craft...

Rainbow Dream: A rainbow forms over the Barmsee lake in Mittenwald, Germany Photo Credit: Maximilian Ziegler / WMO / UN We may forget what Nature has given us but it’s always there for us to see,...

If the unusually high October temperatures, Hurricane Michael devastation in Florida and Tsunami ravages in Indonesia do not scare you enough to act, here is a climate change horror card that has deprived humanity of 1.3...

Image shows Neapolitan sunset, Credit Jessie Eastland/Wikimedia Commons The World Bank this week released an upbeat report on efforts toward combating climate degradation, saying climate financing by the world’s six largest multilateral development banks (MDBs) rose...

Photo: WMO/Alfred Lee via UN. Smog in Beijing China Climate change and air pollution cause more than 12.6 million deaths a year, taking an unprecedented toll on affected communities emotionally and economically. The United Nations has called air...

Photo:  Jessie Eastland/Wikimedia Common South Asia may not be the only region to experience climatic catastrophes but it certainly seems to be the region at risk. A UN weather expert has confirmed fears that this week’s...