As glaciers shrink, Peruvian sisters build 'sacred' reservoirs for city water

As climate change hits Andean glaciers, bringing water shortages, a Quechua family is constructing traditional reservoirs to harvest rain

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Digital disruption holds virtual key to climate action, researchers say

How social media, satellite technology and other digital tools are used could pave the way to low-carbon, fairer societies - or undermine them, researchers say

As wildfires worsen, firefighters go high-tech to stay healthy

Tech giant IBM is helping test and roll out a low-cost device to monitor health risks for firefighters, developed by volunteers in Spain, as the threat of wildfires grows worldwide

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Schools challenged to teach climate change as students join Greta strikes

In Britain, the youth-led Teach the Future campaign network is demanding a new UK law that would instruct all schools to teach climate issues

New Zealand makes first donation to Fiji climate relocation fund

Fund aims to support efforts already underway to resettle people at risk from sea level rise and other climate-related threats

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Pay more tax to fight climate change? British district puts it to the vote

A local authority will ask residents if they will back a tax hike to fund climate measures from electric car chargers to greener social housing

ANALYSIS-Governments face pressure to protect nature in biodiversity 'super year'

Green groups hope 2020 will see countries commit to a 'Paris agreement for nature' which offers a chance to halt shocking declines in animal and plant life

INTERVIEW-Women key to solving climate crisis, says Ugandan school striker

The student is calling for climate victims to help find solutions after learning her own family were among those impacted by a rapidly warming world

Featured in: Youth action on climate change

Asian cities urged to bolster defence against rising seas

Tokyo, Jakarta and Shanghai are among the cities that may need to relocate people and development away from risks, researchers say

India's tree planting, conservation push sparks land conflicts

India's conservation drive aimed at reducing carbon emissions puts poor villagers and indigenous people at risk of losing their homes and livelihoods

PepsiCo adopts stricter, greener rules for palm oil in products

In a first for the consumer goods industry, the tighter policy against deforestation will also apply to the multinational's business partners

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Luxembourg becomes first country to make public transport free

Government says it wants to tackle road congestion and pollution, and support low earners

Brazil Environment Ministry fires top climate change officials

The right-wing government has previously reduced the emphasis on global warming within the environment ministry and installed several climate sceptics in key posts

'The world is on fire,' Greta Thunberg tells UK climate rally

Thousands of supporters rallied to meet the superstar Swedish teenage activist at a youth strike in the English city of Bristol

Climate change lengthens Australian summers by 50% - study

Report released as Australia counts cost of unusually intense bushfire season that burned nearly 12 million hectares of bushland

Campaigners urge PM Johnson to 'turbocharge' climate plans ahead of U.N. summit

Sixty environment and development groups call on Britain to unveil more ambitious and detailed decarbonisation plans, and lead international efforts to boost aid for countries hit by climate disasters

OPINION: New pact paves way for innovative solutions to disaster and climate change displacement in Africa

People fleeing disasters and climate change will be able to seek safety in neighbouring countries under the pioneering deal

OPINION: Drought-hit Barbados aims for one million trees to mitigate climate impact

Barbados, grappling with its worst dry season in decades, is among several Commonwealth countries encouraging tree-planting

OPINION: Britain's cities of the future should be rooted in the past

What needs to change, and urgently, is this widely held belief that new homes means new builds