ISLAMABAD: Climate change poses a serious threat to pregnant women, babies and children which calls for urgent attention, said a UN report ahead of the global Conference of the Parties (COP28) negotiations on climate change in Dubai. The report, named Call for Action, said climate change
NEW YORK: A March research found that 8% of those who passed away in British Columbia's June 2021 heatwave — which broke all records—had a diagnosis of schizophrenia — compared to all other illnesses the authors evaluated, such as renal disease and coronary artery disease,
BRUSSELS: Developed nations may have achieved their overdue promise of $100 billion to help poorer countries cope with climate change in 2022, the OECD said on Thursday, an estimate that may muster some political goodwill on the eve of the COP28 climate summit. In 2009, developed
PARIS: The world's largest multilateral climate fund will aim to boost cash flow in a donor conference on Thursday, with all eyes on what the United States will provide for vulnerable nations. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was set up as part of the landmark 2015
SINGAPORE: Nearly all of the world's population experienced higher temperatures from June to August as a result of human-induced climate change, according to a peer-reviewed research report. The northern hemisphere summer of 2023 has been the hottest since records began, with prolonged heatwaves in North America
LONDON: 2023 is likely to be the hottest year in human history, and global temperatures during the Northern Hemisphere summer were the warmest on record, the EU climate monitor said on Friday. Heatwaves, droughts and wildfires struck Asia, Africa, Europe and North America over the last
LONDON: The UK is set to face a future of more frequent and intense heatwaves due to the escalating impacts of climate change, warns the latest study released by Britain's Meteorological Office. The report highlights the alarming trend of rising temperatures and the increasing likelihood of
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that the world has the power to “seek and unite for solutions” — even when beset by growing divisions and rising geopolitical tensions — to deal with three major challenges, including climate change, facing the humanity. The secretary-general
SINGAPORE: The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months of record-breaking heat on land and sea. As envoys gathered in Bonn in early
NEW YORK: Global heating incrementally boosts the intensity of extreme rainfall at higher altitudes, putting two billion people living in or downstream from mountains at greater risk of floods and landslides, researchers said Wednesday. Every degree celsius of warming increases the density of major downpours by