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World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns — and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’
Former UN climate chief to co-chair Lancet Commission examining how sea-level rise is reshaping health, well-being, and inequality.
Far more countries face critical food insecurity if world heats up by 2C, analysis shows
Food systems of low-income nations are projected to deteriorate seven times as fast as those of wealthy ones.
Women and girls bearing brunt of water shortages globally, UN warns
Unesco calls for action as lack of access and sanitation hits health, education and food security of women.
World ill-prepared to stop climate crisis reversing progress on health, says study
The climate crisis threatens to roll back decades of progress towards better health and governments are ill-prepared to stop it, the World Meteorological Organization has said.
Climate activists dye iconic Italian fountain water black
A group of climate activists in Italy have poured what they described as “a charcoal-based black liquid” into the water of Rome’s famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) – to “sound the alarm about the black future that awaits humanity.”
Pollen bomb! Six ways to fight hay fever this spring, from vitamin D to making new friends
Air pollution and the climate crisis are making pollen even more of a menace. Here’s how to stop your eyes itching and nose streaming.
‘They are despairing’: climate crisis weighs heavy on mental health of young Australians
Report shows anxiety over the environment is prominent among teenagers, such as Ruby Bron who feels ‘helpless’ about the future.











