Expectations from CoP26: Climate finance needs to be scaled up with focus on adaptation, says LDC Group 

The group wants a balance between funds provided for mitigation actions and those for adapting to climate change

Sun-block lotions threaten corals

It’s only getting worse: New WMO report flags intensifying climate crisis in Latin America & Caribbean

2020 was a year of unprecedented heatwaves, droughts, forest fires, cyclones and food insecurity for the region  

Coral tradition loses shape

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Nearly 150,000 Indians have died in the past 51 years because of extreme weather: WMO

Extreme weather, climate and water-related events caused nearly 12, 000 disasters worldwide between 1970 and 2021

Early destruction

Hit by slime, Caribbean corals at risk of extinction

Loss of algae grazers could wipe out the corals in the next 20 years

Scientists to study effect of climate change on rainforests

Experiment will take place in El Yunque National Forest

Global Eco Watch: Ice Age woolly rhino unearthed in Siberia

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN report warns

Between 83 million and 132 million people could go hungry in 2020 due to COVID-19, according to the report

Is India headed towards a locust plague

Exceptional summer breeding may prompt swarms to remain in the country through end of year, move east & south

One in every nine persons in the world goes hungry: UN State of Food Insecurity Report

Asia houses 526 million of the 805 million chronically undernourished people in the world

Bonn climate talks: no change in parties' negotiating positions

Parties anxious to start discussions to reach 2015 agreement

In short

Nations discuss ban on toxic exports

Ban Amendment seeks to curb export of hazardous waste by rich countries to the poor, but has not been brought into force since 1994