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Floods on record-high Lake Victoria expose need for water cooperation
After more than a year of unusually heavy rainfall, over 800,000 Kenyans have been displaced by flooding.
Drought-hit Argentina faces water worries amid coronavirus pandemic
With deforestation surging in Brazil, as President Jair Bolsonaro encourages development of the Amazon, water is expected to become in increasingly shorter supply in the region.
Coronavirus prompts Thunberg to move Friday climate rallies online
Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, the founder of the Fridays for Future youth movement, on Wednesday called on fellow climate activists to move their weekly rallies online due to the spreading coronavirus outbreak.
Coronavirus tops 'perfect storm' of climate challenges, says Prince Charles
The growing global coronavirus outbreak is making already complex efforts to speed up action on climate change more challenging, Britain's Prince Charles said on Tuesday.
Rising sea levels put Myanmar's villages on frontline of climate change
Three years ago, the villagers watched as the Sittaung River on Myanmar's southeast coast crept closer to them, swollen by powerful tidal surges from the Gulf of Mottama that eroded its banks.
Extreme heat hitting rich and poor harder, global climate index shows
Worsening heatwaves are taking a heavier toll on rich as well as poor countries, according to an annual ranking that measures the damage done by extreme weather to human life and economies.
As lungs pay cost of dirty fuels, U.N. urges action on climate health risks
Human health is paying the price of the world's failure to curb global warming, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday, urging governments at U.N. climate talks to cut climate-changing emissions faster and provide funds to address growing threats.