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Greenpeace Nordic’s blockade of a tanker transporting toxic wastewater from the Norwegian oil industry to Denmark was ended for safety reasons after 69 hours, when the activists made the decision to leave due to deteriorating weather conditions.

President Macron’s Summit for a New Global Financing Pact ends with very limited progress to make polluters pay for the escalating costs of the climate crisis. Governments failed to commit to concrete and ambitious action to make the fossil fuel industry pay.

Girls wade through floodwaters on the way to school in Sunamganj, Bangladesh

Carbon dioxide levels and other greenhouse gas concentrations, continued at record levels, despite the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A man walks in floodwaters in Gatumba, Burundi an area which is receiving unpredictable rainfall due to climate change.

The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter of a billion facing acute hunger and people in seven countries on the brink of starvation, according to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC).

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell travelled to eastern Kenya to meet families and refugees struggling to recover from the worst climate-induced drought to hit the region in 40 years, on May 2.

The El Niño-induced drought in Ziway Dugda, Oromia region of Ethiopia, is affecting every family and they don't have enough food at home to feed themselves.

Air pollution, primarily from the burning of fossil fuels, is a serious problem in Indian cities.

Seasonal floods are a part of life in Chittagong, Bangladesh.