Are Mosquitoes and Climate Change in Sync?
As climate change reshapes the environment, it may also be reshaping one of the world’s oldest public health threats: the mosquito. There are warnings that rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, rapid urbanisation and growing insecticide…
Climate Change Is Becoming Africa’s Biggest Education Crisis, Leaving Teachers to Carry the Burden
Across classrooms in eastern, western and southern Africa, climate change is no longer a distant scientific theory discussed in textbooks. It has become an everyday reality shaping how children learn and how teachers teach. From prolonged droughts that…
Why Climate Change Is Stealing Our Sleep
Climate change is no longer just a story about melting glaciers, rising sea levels or extreme weather. Scientists are now warning that one of its most overlooked consequences is unfolding every night, in our bedrooms. Across the world, rising nighttime…
NiHSA Warns Flooding May Persist Till September, Says Situation Could Worsen
Avoid drinking water from open channels. It’s a warning with red lights. The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NiHSA) has warned that flooding currently affecting parts of the country may persist through September, with projections indicating a…
“We Are Driving Ourselves Toward Destruction” — Obasanjo, UN Sound Alarm on Climate Crisis Fuelled by Human Greed
Former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has warned that humanity is accelerating environmental destruction through greed, negligence and the overexploitation of natural resources, insisting that climate change is fundamentally a consequence…
Climate Action Has a Populism Problem Even as the Green Economy Booms
For all the political turbulence surrounding climate change, the numbers tell a remarkably different story. Far from stalling, the global clean economy is experiencing one of the most significant expansions in modern history, growing sixfold over the…
Climate Crisis Could Deepen Global Health Emergencies Without More Funding, Experts Warn
Millions of people could face worsening health risks if governments fail to increase investments in climate resilience and adaptation, the Global Climate and Health Alliance has warned. The alliance issued the warning as delegates gathered in Bonn,…
UN Warns the Hottest Years May Still Be Ahead
The Earth is heating faster than humanity appears prepared for, and according to the United Nations, the most alarming temperatures may not yet have arrived. Fresh warnings from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) paint a troubling picture of the…
Climate Crisis Is Now a Health Crisis, WHO-Backed Commission Warns
Climate change is no longer being viewed solely as an environmental challenge. Health experts and policymakers are increasingly warning that its effects are spilling into nearly every aspect of human life, with consequences extending far beyond rising…
Amsterdam Bans Meat and Fossil Fuel Ads in Bold Climate Move
The idea is to halt impulse or subconcious buying. Amsterdam has become the first capital city in the world to ban public advertisements promoting both meat products and fossil fuel consumption, in a sweeping policy aimed at aligning its urban landscape…