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World cannot afford worsening disasters, warns UN climate change chief

The world cannot afford escalating disasters of the kind recently witnessed in Pakistan and Russia, the top United Nations climate change official said today, underscoring the need for governments to take swift action to lead the world towards a low-...

PAKISTAN: No firewood, no hot food

A few kilometres outside Mingora, Swat Valley’s principal city in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa Province, a group of village women discuss the various problems they have been facing in the wake of the recent devastating floods - including the lack of...

GLOBAL: Vaults to protect agricultural biodiversity

As rising food prices, growing populations and natural disasters increasingly put pressure on food production, governments and scientists are focusing on preserving the world’s agricultural biodiversity through seed and gene banks.

North Carolina beaches closed down as hurricane approaches

An evacuation has started in the US as residents of eastern beaches wait for Hurricane Earl.