Kenya's push to harvest rainwater has a new payoff: battling coronavirus

Improved water storage to cope with climate change and drought is helping Kenyans wash their hands - but will it last?

Featured in: Water and climate change

Brazil indigenous community banishes miners to cut coronavirus risk

Amazon community reaches an agreement with forest invaders to pause operations, protecting the health of both

Featured in: Amazon forest and climate change


Climate stress and coronavirus gang up on world's vulnerable

As risks converge in a complex world, the resilience of small-scale farmers and families living in poverty is being tested to its limits

Featured in: Coronavirus and climate change


Health experts call virus pandemic a window into future climate threats

The coronavirus threat - and the responses to it - suggest the kind of challenges dealing with global warming may bring

Featured in: Health and climate change


Armed with good data, engineers wage quiet battle for cleaner air

As countries wage war on climate change and pollution from vehicles, a little-known transport group is providing the ammunition

Featured in: Sustainable transport


Governments urged not to shirk climate action after summit delay

Coronavirus forces postponement of COP26 conference but efforts to tackle global warming remain urgent - especially for the poor

Featured in: Coronavirus and climate change


Climate experts look ahead as coronavirus forces delay of COP26 summit

U.N. agencies, governments and green groups respond to the decision to delay this year’s climate talks in Glasgow to 2021

Featured in: Setting the stage for COP26


What coronavirus can teach us about tackling climate change

The shutdowns imposed in response to the pandemic are a crash course in a greener future for the world's richer inhabitants

Featured in: Coronavirus and climate change


Climate disasters seen increasing conflict risk in large countries

Extreme weather bring greater risk of conflict in underdeveloped countries with large populations and ethnic tensions

Featured in: Conflict and climate change


Bottling it? Plastic pollution from Coca-Cola, PepsiCo fuels emissions

60% of waste packaging from big brands is burned in developing nations, producing climate-heating emissions, report finds

Featured in: Cutting plastic waste


Indigenous leader from threatened tribe killed in Brazil

Indigenous teacher feared latest casualty in violence over Amazon resources in Brazil


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Coronavirus could trigger biggest fall in carbon emissions since World War Two

But experts warn that without structural change, emissions declines caused by coronavirus could be short-lived as economies get back to normal


Cyclone pounds Vanuatu, levelling buildings, amid virus shutdown

Travel restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus - yet to be reported in Vanuatu - are hampering aid after the powerful storm


Climate summit in Glasgow postponed to 2021 because of coronavirus pandemic

Hopes that 2020 would prove a pivotal year for climate diplomacy and action to protect biodiversity have rapidly faded due to the virus

Featured in: Coronavirus and climate change


EU presses on with tighter 2030 climate target despite pandemic

EU executive has suggested it will heed calls from campaigners and investors that economic recovery measures should also accelerate the low-carbon transition



Opinion

OPINION: Coronavirus should not be exploited to fuel climate emergency

Politicians have responded to pandemic with economic stimulus packages skewed toward helping polluters and locking in emissions


OPINION: Central banks must target a green recovery after coronavirus

Huge finance injections must help to create a different kind of economy - one that is more stable and sustainable


OPINION: Power in a pandemic - why energy access matters during coronavirus

Reliable, affordable electricity is needed to keep people connected at home and to run life-saving equipment in hospitals

Featured in: Coronavirus and climate change


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