By Nita Bhalla and Sandhya Ravishankar CHENNAI/NEW DELHI, Dec 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hundreds of poor lower-caste families who lost their homes and jobs after devastating floods swept southern…
Deforestation was blamed by many for worsening the deadly floods that struck in Malawi in January to February 2015. Under the AFR100 scheme, 10 African countries, including Malawi, aim to…
PARIS, Dec 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Three Balkan nations – hard hit by severe flooding – were among the six countries most affected by extreme weather events in 2014,…
BOGOTA, Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As world leaders gather in Paris to seek a deal on tackling climate change, millions of people around the world are suffering the…
Reporting by Megan Rowling PARIS, Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Leaders from a group of 43 countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change called on the first…
PARIS, Dec 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United States will contribute $30 million to climate risk insurance schemes in the Pacific, Central America and Africa, President Barack Obama announced…
PARIS, Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From restoring degraded land to financing hydropower dams and creating jobs for refugees, the world needs to come up with more innovative solutions…
NAIROBI, Nov 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Heavy rains, flooding and a spike in new arrivals could threaten the lives of over 110,000 Burundian refugees in overcrowded camps in Tanzania,…
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, April 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In the face of a growing threat from extreme weather, Tanzania’s parliament has adopted a law to help authorities cope…
AYUTTHAYA, Thailand, March 5 2015 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nestled among hundreds of identical white and brown two-storey homes crammed in this neighbourhood for factory workers is a house with a…
ISLAMABAD, Sept 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pakistan has yet to implement a national plan to deal with natural disasters, experts say, leaving the country struggling to cope with its…
JHELUM, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Four days after floodwaters began surging through Punjab province last week, the province’s chief minister called a meeting with top government and department heads…
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Pakistan’s vulnerability to climate change is being made worse by poor governance and the degradation of its natural resources, jeopardising the food security, health…
