Tree loss in tropics casts doubt over climate goals
Tropical regions of the world lost 11.1 million hectares of forest cover in 2021, new data shows, calling into question global pledges to end deforestation…
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El Niño linked to widespread crop failures
The El Niño climate cycle has been responsible for widespread simultaneous crop failure in different regions of the world, a study has found, putting pressure…
Biodiversity loss mars SDG success, report finds
An “unprecedented” loss of global biodiversity threatens the progress of more than 80 per cent of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and puts 1 million…
Yemen’s forests another casualty of war amid fuel crisis
By Adel Aldaghbashy [Sanaa] The four-year conflict in Yemen which has pushed huge swathes of the population close to famine has also left the country…
Climate change ‘could slash Brazil’s maize yields’
[SÃO PAULO] Changes in temperature and rainfall could drastically reduce maize yields by the end of the century in northeast Brazil, one of the country’s…
Environmental degradation threat to health, says UN
[NAIROBI] Environmental degradation due to factors such as urbanisation, rapid population growth, economic development and transportation, especially in the global south, could have serious consequences…