Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
6/17/2024 10:21:00 PM
How a community project is restoring mangrove forests in Egypt and helping to combat climate change
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World
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Region
6/17/2024 4:53:15 PM
In the Libyan village of Kabaw in the Nafusa Mountains, M'hamed Maakaf waters an ailing fig tree as climate change pushes villagers to forsake lands and livestock.
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Opinion
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6/14/2024 2:44:03 PM
The task is immense, because Africa’s challenges are great. Nearly 500 million Africans live in poverty, while conflict, climate change, unsustainable debt burdens, and other crises cast a shadow over the continent’s economic outlook.
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Egypt
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Society
6/7/2024 3:45:05 PM
Southern Upper Egypt city of Aswan recorded a staggering temperature of 49.6 degrees Celsius in the shade on Thursday, marking one of the highest temperatures ever recorded in the region, according to the Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA).
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World
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International
6/5/2024 11:32:20 AM
Global warming has accelerated at an "unprecedented" pace as the window to limit rising temperatures within internationally-set targets closes, over 50 leading scientists warned in a study published on Wednesday.
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World
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International
6/3/2024 7:07:08 PM
Rescuers battled Monday to evacuate people from floods in southern Germany that have claimed four lives, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz called it a "warning" that climate change was getting worse.
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World
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International
5/28/2024 10:17:41 AM
Bangladeshi weather experts said Tuesday that a deadly cyclone that carved a swathe of destruction was one of the quickest-forming and longest-lasting they'd experienced, blaming climate change for the shift.
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World
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International
5/17/2024 1:21:23 PM
Fast-moving thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas on Thursday for the second time this month, killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings, downing trees and knocking out power to more than 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
5/15/2024 10:34:00 AM
Al-Ahram Weekly sheds light on human stories of migration in Africa and the MENA region as a result of climate change.
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World
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International
5/11/2024 12:20:14 PM
Flash floods that have ripped through northern Afghanistan left more than 200 people dead in a single province, the United Nations said on Saturday.
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World
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Africa
5/10/2024 5:15:07 PM
Abdi Hussein sat alone on a Kenyan road strewn with ramshackle tents bound with plastic strings and covered with tarpaulins, peering into the sea of rust-coloured flood water.
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World
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International
4/24/2024 4:56:48 PM
The Taliban government has entered its first talks with the United Nations, donors, and non-governmental organizations over the impact of climate change in Afghanistan, organizers said Wednesday.
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Life & Style
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Health
4/22/2024 8:10:50 PM
A large majority of workers worldwide are facing a cocktail of health hazards linked to climate change, the United Nations said on April 22, warning that existing regulations offered inadequate protection.
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World
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Africa
3/31/2024 8:35:08 PM
Delicately and with intense concentration, Zanyiwe Ncube poured her small share of precious golden cooking oil into a plastic bottle at a food aid distribution site deep in rural Zimbabwe.
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World
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International
3/25/2024 2:54:49 PM
China's President Xi Jinping on Monday offered developmental and climate change aid to Nauru, months after the tiny South Pacific nation cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
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World
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International
3/17/2024 10:39:29 PM
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday stressed the need to fight global warming, and called climate change a "crisis multiplier" with implications for global security.
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World
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Africa
3/16/2024 9:40:59 PM
South Sudan on Saturday said it would close schools and told children not to play outside as temperatures were set to soar to an exceptional 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Opinion
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3/14/2024 11:41:44 AM
Today is World Kidney Day, and an opportunity not just to draw attention to the importance of kidney health – which is too often overlooked – but also to connect the dots between our kidneys, carbon, and climate change, for the benefit of both people and our planet.
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Opinion
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2/28/2024 1:25:31 PM
The MENA region faces severe water scarcity and climate shocks. As a result, we must prioritize the adaptation to climate change, as well as mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.
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World
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International
2/13/2024 10:08:58 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lamented Tuesday the emphasis placed by some governments on buying weapons at the cost of policies tackling global warming and hunger.
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