News stories by Robert Sandford

HAMILTON, Canada, Dec 01 (IPS) - Last year's climate COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland, was billed as the most important conference in the history of humanity. But it failed to deliver. If anything, that failure added urgency for global climate action at COP 27 in Egypt last month.

HAMILTON, Canada, Sep 06 (IPS) - Monsoon flooding has occurred often in Pakistan but never to the catastrophic extent presently happening.

A distinguishing feature of this disaster is that no one blames the flooding’s unprecedented intensity and destructiveness on anything but climate heating. The clear link between the warming atmosphere and the frequency and duration of extreme weather events of this scale should not be lost on the rest of the world.

HAMILTON, Canada, Feb 25 (IPS) - We have entered a watershed year, a moment critical for humanity.