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El Niño’s $11 trillion price tag, ‘Exceptional’ extreme temperatures to continue into next year, UN reports
The El Niño extreme weather pattern could cost the global economy up to US$11 trillion and seriously impact food security, said the UN agency...
COP31 Pacific home, the Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion launched in Antalya
The Pacific has opened its home at the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), with the official launch of the Moana Blue Pacific...
An Outer-Island Budget Promise Must Survive the Boat Journey
By Douglas Vandergraph
A government announcement made in South Tarawa may sound complete when the words leave a microphone. For a family on an outer...
Spirit of talanoa’ called upon as COP31 opens in Türkiye
A hundred and ninety-eight parties attending the 31st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Antalya, Türkiye,...
UN Climate chief Stiell warns climate crisis is now a global health emergency
The climate crisis has become a global health emergency of pandemic proportions, with extreme heat, pollution and climate disasters threatening lives and overwhelming health...
WMO warns 2027 could break global temperature records as super El Niño intensifies
The developing super El Niño could push global temperatures to another record high in 2027, with the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) warning that the...
Climate change killing more than three million people annually, Wellcome warns
More than three million people die each year from fossil fuel-related air pollution and extreme heat, with climate change increasingly threatening human health, livelihoods...
COP31 must deliver climate action as Pacific faces worsening El Niño impacts
Pacific Island nations facing worsening climate impacts cannot afford further delays in global climate action, with 350.org warning that COP31 must deliver urgent commitments...
COP31 opens in Antalya: Can climate promises finally deliver results?
By Laura Quinones
Nearly 200 countries have arrived on Türkiye's Mediterranean coast for a climate summit with a different ambition: fewer grand declarations and more...
IRL chair defends great-grandparents eligibility rule as Leniu lashes World Cup chiefs
International Rugby League chairman Troy Grant has defended the decision to permit players to represent the nation where one of their great-grandparents were born,...
















