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2 weeks ago | earth.org | Bronwen Dingeman

While documentaries capture audiences’ attention and promote climate action through powerful storytelling, long-term impacts remain unclear.

3 weeks ago | earth.org | Jan Lee

At November’s COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil, gender will be a major focus topic. But why should action on climate change, which affects every person on the planet, require a specific action plan related to gender? —“Of all of the big problems, the biggest is the assumption that climate change is not a gender issue,” Mwanahamisi Singano, Director of Policy, Women’s Environment & Development Organization (WeDo), told Earth.Org.

3 weeks ago | earth.org | Martina Igini

African countries grappled with unprecedented flooding, persistent droughts and water scarcity in 2024, the World Meteorological Organization said on Monday. —Human-made climate change is wreaking havoc across Africa, impacting every aspect of socio-economic development and exacerbating food and water insecurity, according to a new report.

1 month ago | earth.org | Martina Igini

At least 24 people died after a series of deadly storms across the southern and midwest US, with severe rains, flooding rivers and tornadoes triggering evacuation orders in several states. —The record-breaking rain that triggered flash flooding in the southern and Midwest US in early April were intensified by climate change, a new study has concluded.

1 month ago | earth.org | Martina Igini

Global temperatures stood at 14.96C in April, the second-hottest April ever recorded and the ninth consecutive month to breach the Paris Agreement’s threshold, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday. —Global temperatures remained abnormally high last month, the second-hottest April globally. The global average temperature stood at 14.96C, 1.60C above the 1991-2020 average for April, according to data by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).