Bill Gates U-turns on climate change
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Allan Bryant scans the sky as he watches over a minutes-old calf huddled under a tree line with its mother. Bryant, hoping they're not black vultures, is relieved to see they're only turkey vultures — red-headed and not aggressive.
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This orange flower cloaks Mexico during Day of the Dead. Climate change is putting it at risk
Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico.
By virtually every key metric, efforts to fight climate change are going too slowly, according to findings by a coalition of climate groups. In some cases, things are moving in the wrong direction.
Almost one-third of the heatwave days India experienced in 2024 were driven by climate change, according to a new report by the medical journal The Lancet. The report found that India recorded an average of 19.8 heatwave days last year, of which 6.6 days would not have occurred without human-induced climate change.
Climate Change Is 'Increasing Melissa’s Potential Damages By As Much As 50%,' Climate Scientists Say
As Hurricane Melissa moves across Jamaica, climate scientists are saying storms are becoming stronger. Here's why.
Heat-related deaths now make up more than 3% of mortalities in 26 countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East. In Equatorial Guinea, 7.4% of deaths are blamed on high temperatures—the highest in the world. The United Arab Emirates has the rich world’s highest rate, at 6.7%.
Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilisation, with thousands of years of history at risk of disappearing as Iraq's ancient southern cities face erosion because of climate change.
Evidence is mounting that climate change is bringing new disease threats to the UK. Kate Bowie reports Climate change is no longer a distant concern for health systems; it is already reshaping patterns of disease in Europe and the UK.