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Study: Climate change contributed to West African floods

Amid the ‘loss and damage’ debate at global climate talks, the study adds to evidence that less-developed countries suffer from warming that industrialized nations largely cause.

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‘We just pray for rain’: Niger is in the eye of the climate crisis – and children are starving

Niger is on the frontline of the climate crisis. Increasingly erratic rainfall and longer dry seasons mean that many parts of the country have not had a good harvest in a decade.

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Documentary ′The Forest Maker′ portrays reforestation pioneer Tony Rinaudo

Documentary ′The Forest Maker′ portrays a reforestation pioneer

"Tin Drum" director Volker Schlöndorff's new film is about "alternative Nobel" winner Tony Rinaudo, an Australian scientist who helped reforest many parts of Africa's Sahel region.

Impacts

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Can the ‘Great Green Wall’ carry out Sankara’s ecological, pan-African dream?

Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso's folk-hero president, once marshalled a nation to halt the spread of the Sahara. Decades after his brutal death, a pan-African project of epic scale and ambition is aiming to reverse the creeping desertification that threatens to engulf a vast region, accelerating climate change, migration and conflict.

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Overview: Transforming land and sea for a more sustainable world

These striking satellite images show how countries are beginning to respond to the global environmental crisis by restoring ecosystems, expanding renewable energy, and building climate resiliency infrastructure.

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Africa's Great Green Wall just 4% complete halfway through schedule

The world's most ambitious reforestation project, the Great Green Wall of Africa, has covered only 4% of its target area but is more than halfway towards its 2030 completion date, according to a status report.

ORIGINAL REPORTING

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Study: Climate change contributed to West African floods

‘We just pray for rain’: Niger is in the eye of the climate crisis – and children are starving

Documentary ′The Forest Maker′ portrays a reforestation pioneer

Can the ‘Great Green Wall’ carry out Sankara’s ecological, pan-African dream?

Overview: Transforming land and sea for a more sustainable world

Africa's Great Green Wall just 4% complete halfway through schedule

In West Africa, climate change and extremism have created a crisis that will impact us all

Jim Inhofe, climate change denier, dies at 89

A collaborative effort saves Clayoquot Sound's ancient forests

Companies use carbon markets to boost pesticide sales

Hollywood’s quest to cut carbon emissions

Some US cities are promoting themselves as climate refuges despite concerns

Supreme Court to rule on key environmental cases

Judges' interpretations of the law significantly impact climate policy

Amid LNG’s Gulf Coast expansion, community hopes to stand in its way