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Extreme drought has increased by nearly a third over the last 50 years, according to a report by The Lancet Countdown. Photo: Asaad Niazi /
Extreme drought has increased by nearly ... […]
Climate change, Health, Infographic, Video 3D

‘Threat multiplier’: How climate change affects health

Deadlier than Covid, or even rivalling cancer? Researchers have been increasingly attempting to calculate the effect climate change will have on health if the world does not act quickly to reduce carbon emissions.
4 months ago
A worker paints over graffiti of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in Saint Petersburg. The inscription reads: "The hero of the new times". Photo: Olga Maltseva / AFP
A worker paints over graffiti of jailed ... […]
News, Podcast

The Poisoning of Alexei Navalny – Episode 1: The Crackdown

Who is Alexei Navalny? What do we know about his poisoning? Is there any real opposition left in Russia? And do we have anything to fear from Russia? The answers are to be found in this AFP podcast series
1 year ago
Youth activists protest against climate inaction on the sidelines of the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow on November 5, 2021. Photo: Ben Stansall / AFP
Youth activists protest against climate ... […]
Climate change, Infographic, Video 3D

Good COP, bad COP: UN climate meet praised and panned

The COP26 climate talks resuming Monday have so far unfolded on parallel planes, with high-level announcements stage-managed by host Britain riding roughshod over a laborious UN process built on consensus
1 year ago
Britain's PM Boris Johnson arrives for the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow on November 1. Photo: Phil Noble / Pool / AFP
Britain's PM Boris Johnson arrives for t... […]
Climate change, Infographic, Video 3D

COP26: Leaders can ‘make or break hope’ for climate salvation

As #COP26 begins, a question looms: will the summit resemble the Copenhagen debacle of 2009 or Paris six years later which led to the first climate treaty in which all nations vowed to shrink their carbon footprint?
1 year ago
Street artists paint a mural as part of the Grantham Climate Art Prize 2021 on a wall opposite the COP26 climate summit venue in Glasgow. Photo: Andy Buchanan / AFP
Street artists paint a mural as part of ... […]
Climate change, Infographic, Photos, Video 3D, Videos

Warming world in the balance at knife-edge climate summit

The United Nations COP26 summit in Glasgow will task world leaders with turning ambitions to restrain global heating into the actions needed to slash greenhouse gas emissions
1 year ago
If temperatures rise enough to melt the ice sheets above Greenland and West Antarctica, it could lift oceans more than a dozen metres (40 feet)
If temperatures rise enough to melt the ... […]
Climate change, Infographic, Video 3D

Climate scientists fear tipping points (maybe you should too)

Leaders may be going into the UN climate summit in Glasgow with the do-or-die goal of limiting global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, but breaching that cap is not what keeps scientists awake at night
1 year ago