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Massive monsoon flooding has followed a severe drought in Pakistan’s Sindh province, with experts saying that climate change is making farming ‘more challenging...

This article examines the environmental dimensions of the current crisis in Sri Lanka, the risks, and the way forward.

This year, Bihar extended a seasonal ban on mining sand from its rivers. But illegal sand mining continues every day across the eastern Indian state.

An updated guide to the intergovernmental negotiations taking place in December 2022 in Montreal, Canada, that have a crucial role to play in halting...

One man’s mission to remove trash from the polluted river in Baghdad has inspired a nationwide movement that shows how environmental efforts inspire peace.

With 161 votes in favour, and eight abstentions, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on Thursday, declaring access to a clean, healthy and...

Much of the food that we consume today involves trade. However, climate targets, and the way in which emissions are reported, do not sufficiently reflect this...

The UN Convention to Combat Desertification has long been the poor relation of environmental conventions, but the problems are now too vast to ignore at COP15...

The military takeover in Myanmar has put a halt to many environmental programmes that were starting to produce results.

Mounting studies highlight greenhouse gas emissions from reservoirs, and now a coalition of environmental groups has called for regulatory action.

Global water security is increasingly threatened. Accounting for water use and risk ought to have the same urgency with which we address carbon.

In this country profile, Carbon Brief examines the state of climate and energy policies in France, a major emitter that nevertheless relies on fossil fuels less...

Most victims of climate-related disasters do not want to leave their homes and communities, and many develop new livelihoods and coping strategies – yet this is...

A new report from the IPCC finds that the world could face a more than 3° Celsius increase in the global average temperature over pre-industrial levels based on...

Biotechnology can aid conventional agriculture in major food producing countries such as Argentina by incorporating genetic material into crops. But its use is...

The destruction of a dam across the North Crimean Canal is the most recent entry in the Water Conflict Chronology, a compendium of violent acts related to water...

In the lead-up to the resumed fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5), UNEP provides background on the world’s foremost environmental decision...