Africa's farmers click with digital tools to boost crops

From renting tractors to monitoring crops by satellite, a slew of agri-tech innovations have emerged over the last decade to serve Africa's long-neglected small-scale farmers

'It's our stuff': consumers wage right-to-repair revolution

Making it easier to repair consumer goods would cut waste, lower emissions and help consumers, too, advocates say

'A drop in the bucket': China's biodiversity fund launch gets lukewarm response

A $232 million pledge by China at the COP15 biodiversity summit is a start – but $350 billion a year is needed by 2030, analysts say

Agencies distribute food, blankets, cash as hunger and cold threaten Afghanistan

As people lined up inside the UN compound for handouts of food and basic household items, larger crowds gathered outside, many desperate for help

'Terrifying' warming predicted as country climate vows fail to add up

New emissions cutting pledges are coming in – but more ambitious plans from China, India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other big climate polluters are still missing

WIDER IMAGE-'Our whole life depends on water': Climate change, pollution and dams threaten Iraq’s Marsh Arabs

Many Marsh Arabs, the wetlands' indigenous population, were displaced after Saddam Hussein drained the land. Now a cycle of water crises threatens their way of life

INSIGHT-Moon dust: Greenland's recipe for saving Planet Earth

On the mineral-rich island of Greenland, sustainable mining could be the answer to both saving the planet and gaining independent income, but not everyone is convinced

OPINION: The climate has changed - but we haven't

Surging climate-related disasters now demand an entirely new approach to understanding and acting on climate risk

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