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Life & Style
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Health
9/7/2023 1:18:49 PM
Bangladesh is experiencing its most severe dengue outbreak on record, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, partly blaming climate change for contributing to the spread of such mosquito-borne diseases.
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World
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Africa
9/6/2023 5:06:49 PM
African leaders on Wednesday demanded sweeping changes to the global financial system and urged the international community to back a surge in renewable energy as they wrapped up a landmark climate summit in Kenya.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
9/5/2023 10:10:00 PM
Voluntary carbon markets can provide a way for companies, organisations, and individuals to offset their greenhouse-gas emissions and reduce their environmental impact, writes Sawsan Samy Elawady
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Business
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Energy
9/5/2023 4:32:56 PM
Financing remains the "critical bottleneck" confronting Africa and developing nations as they strive to viably realize their aspirations of tackling the climate crisis, said Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Tuesday in his speech at the Africa Climate Summit (ACS) in Kenya.
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World
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Africa
9/5/2023 2:05:13 PM
The UAE pledged $4.5 billion in clean energy investments in Africa on Tuesday at a landmark climate summit aimed to showcase the continent's potential as a green powerhouse.
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Business
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Energy
9/5/2023 10:47:06 AM
The African Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI) is one of the most important mechanisms for financing climate action in Africa, UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt Mahmoud Mohieldin confirmed on Monday.
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Egypt
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Society
9/4/2023 7:35:00 PM
Egypt’s Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad emphasized the importance of boosting finance for climate change adaptation in her speech at the Africa Climate Summit session on Monday.
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World
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International
9/4/2023 12:47:01 PM
Japan's summer this year was the country's hottest since records began in 1898, the weather agency said Friday.
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World
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Region
9/3/2023 6:25:43 PM
Much of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted. But most of Africa's 1.3 billion people live with little advance knowledge of what’s to come. That can be both deadly and expensive, with damage running in the billions of dollars.
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World
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International
9/1/2023 3:20:32 PM
India has reported its hottest and driest August since national records began more than a century ago, the latest in a string of records broken worldwide as climate change intensifies.
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World
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International
8/30/2023 7:05:58 PM
Climate change has sharply boosted the risk of fast-spreading wildfires, according to a Californian study published Wednesday that offers lessons for prevention after recent disasters in Canada, Greece and Hawaii.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/29/2023 8:28:08 PM
The key factor impeding climate cooperation today is the international order in which nationalism reigns supreme, writes Haro Karkour
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World
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International
8/29/2023 11:54:16 AM
Jeanette Kiokun, the tribal clerk for the Qutekcak Native Tribe in Alaska, doesn't immediately recognize the shriveled, brown plant she finds on the shore of the Salish Sea or others that were sunburned during the long, hot summer. But a fellow student at a weeklong tribal climate camp does.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
8/24/2023 9:30:00 AM
A new study sets out some easy steps to reduce the summer heat in Egypt’s cities.
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World
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International
8/23/2023 1:51:16 PM
Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan's Punjab province, emergency services said on Wednesday.
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World
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International
8/20/2023 9:22:13 PM
Sweltering temperatures lingered Sunday in a large swath of the central US, causing misery from the Gulf of Mexico almost to the Great Lakes.
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World
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International
8/19/2023 6:42:42 PM
Greek authorities on Saturday ordered seven villages evacuated near the northeastern border with Turkey due to a large summer wildfire burning out of control and whipped on by high winds.
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COP27
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Climate change
8/19/2023 9:54:09 AM
Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, has stressed the importance of blended finance for climate and development action that combines domestic, external, public and private sources of funding.
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Business
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Energy
8/17/2023 12:30:23 PM
After riding the fossil fuel boom for decades, Gulf Arab states are eyeing "green" hydrogen as they try to transition their economies and ease the climate crisis at a stroke.
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Egypt
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Health
8/16/2023 7:00:08 PM
Egypt and China signed a deal to collaborate on developing drought and salt-tolerant crops to overcome water scarcity and salinity in Egypt as the country confronts the major impacts of climate change.
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