WASHINGTON, March 8, 2024 - The World Bank Board of Directors today approved an additional $40 million in IDA* grants to the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR** Climate Research for Africa project (AICCRA ...

The agriculture sector’s adaptation to climate change in Africa remains severely underfunded, say stakeholders after the U.N.

The extreme rain and flooding in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia this fall has been made twice as intense by climate change, according to a new study. By Delger Erdenesanaa Heavy rain and floods in East ...

2023 is highly likely to be the hottest year ever recorded. And climate change is to blame for one-quarter of the global population being exposed to dangerous levels of extreme heat. We need signs ...

Delegates walk past a backdrop for the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) during the opening of the High-Level Leaders Summit in Addis Ababa, on September 8, 2025. Delegates walk past a backdrop for ...

Extreme weather events and other climate-driven disasters are hardest on children. UNICEF is mainstreaming climate-smart programming — working with and within communities to protect and empower young ...

A typical lunch of sorghum and high-iron beans offered through the Cup of Uji School Meals programme at G.K. Athi River Primary School in Kenya On a dusty schoolyard in Kajiado County, south of ...

In early 2023, an exceptionally powerful tropical cyclone formed over the Indian Ocean, sweeping over Madagascar and Mozambique before finally dissipating—after more than five weeks—over Malawi.

Gary Haq receives funding from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office for work on decarbonisation and climate change and the Stockholm Environment Institute on climate justice and older people. He is ...

Africa is in danger of becoming the epicenter of the climate crisis, but the continent also holds the potential to fight it. By Wanjira Mathai Ms. Mathai is an activist and environmentalist. This ...