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Paying The Price Of Climate Change In Human Health

Increasing frequency and severity of deadly typhoons in the Pacific, flooding in Chennai, India, the total desiccation of Lake Poopó, the second largest lake in Boli...

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Famed Architect Shigeru Ban Builds Quake-Proof Homes From Rubble In Nepal

TOKYO – After twin earthquakes in April and May claimed 9,000 lives and left vast swathes of Nepal in ruins, survivors worried if they reused the brick rubble, they w...

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This Week in Storms: Typhoon Kila, Sudanese Dust, Hurricane Fred

Weather prediction involves a lot of probabilities (and no certainties) and informed guesses, but weather observation gets better every year. In part we can thank NASA's Te...

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Is The Global Warming ?Hiatus? Over?

There are many ongoing signs that the planet is heating up, even ?on fire.? In the western region of North America, the prolonged drought has led to high temperatures and m...

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Nearly 20 Million People Were Displaced Last Year Because Of Extreme Weather

Extreme natural disasters like floods, storms and earthquakes displaced nearly 20 million people in 2014, a new report by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has found. Sin...

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Climate Change Might Mean Fewer Hurricanes — But They’ll Probably Be Stronger

VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. Hollywood producers and pulp fiction scribes have depicted a variety of wa...

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China’s Three Gorges Dam Is Threatened by Climate Change, Says Government Official

China's Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric plant in the world, stretching nearly a mile and half wide and over 600 feet high ? five times larger than the Hoover ...

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Five ways to achieve climate justice Helena Kennedy

We are learning to see climate injustice. We see it in the distressing stories of lives destroyed, epic droughts, floods and typhoons, and families and whole peoples uproot...

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2015: the year businesses recognize that climate change is real

With new climate policies, civil unrest and supply-chain disruptions in 2014, more businesses are becoming activists It would be an understatement to say that a lot happene...

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Floods, drought and deadly heatwaves: Experts paint bleak picture of world's climate in 2050

Fictional futuristic TV weather reports are created for a UN summit to demonstrate the effects of global warming The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), headquartered ...

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