African countries had 14 of the world’s 67 heat extreme events last year, and several had at least three months of hotter ...

The Green Climate Fund approves $222 million for FAO to launch the SURAGGWA program in eight Sahelian countries. • The initiative focuses on restoring degraded lands and developing value chains for ...

On World Refugee Day, displaced Africans face the worst conditions yet as conflict and disasters increase, aid plummets and borders tighten.

Human-caused climate change added an average of 30 days of extreme heat for about half of the world’s population over the past year, according to a new study. That amounts to four billion people ...

Climate change is boosting air pollution and making it more harmful Air pollution, whether it’s tiny particles of PM2.5 or ozone, is harmful for human health.

Climate change is an urgent global reality, disproportionately impacting vulnerable nations. Bangladesh, Haiti, Pakistan, and the Philippines are among the top ten countries facing severe risks ...

The highest levels of child mortality today are found in extremely poor sub-Saharan African nations like Chad and Mali where aid will be the difference between life and death.

Unusually hot temperatures forecast over the next four days (March 4-8) in Burkina Faso and parts of Mali in Africa’s Sahel region, a highly climate-vulnerable part of the world, are at least ...

Climate change is driving hunger and displacement in the countries most vulnerable and least prepared for its worst effects. Some of them are in West Africa, where cereal production fell by 11 percent ...