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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, August 17 (IPS) - After moving more than 6,000 km across Eurasia, the Silk Road Caravan has reached Mongolia with stories from pastoralists whose livelihoods are increasingly threatened by drought, degraded land and shrinking ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA / KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, August 17 (IPS) - As AGRA turns 20, a new report exposes its worsening failure to double productivity and incomes and halve undernourishment in participating African nations as promised.

In northern Kenya, a herder scans the sky for rain that hasn't come. The grass his animals need is thinning by the day.

As amber heat-health alerts spread across England this summer, a new study has found that the warnings are being received - but not changing behaviour.

DHAKA, Bangladesh, August 13 (IPS) - Dhaka's recent and recurrent flooding is often treated as a natural disaster, but rain is only the trigger. The deeper causes are political, planning and ecological failure: wetland loss, canal encroachment, ...

LILONGWE, August 12 (IPS) - For years, Malawi's electricity supply has been at the mercy of droughts, floods and cyclones that have repeatedly exposed the vulnerability of a power system heavily dependent on hydropower.

As earthquake rescue efforts across western Colombia continued on Tuesday, UN agencies said that they stood ready to help "with everything we've got" if and when the request came from the authorities for international assistance.

As multiple regions contend with unbearable heat, drought, wildfires and other extreme weather, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday underlined the crucial need for stronger forecasts and early warning systems to protect lives and . ...

UNITED NATIONS, August 11 (IPS) - "Mainly, people tell me they're exhausted. They're exhausted from being poor, from being hungry, from repeated climate shocks, mounting debt, and the daily struggle to provide for their families," Olga Cherevko, ...

VICTORIA, Seychelles, August 10 (IPS) - I have spent my life on an island. From the granite hills of Mahé, one can watch the sun rise over an ocean that has fed, protected and defined the Seychellois people for centuries.