Global Issues News Headlines for “Climate Change and Global Warming”

Africa’s Rangelands Are the Frontline of Resilience – COP17 Showed Why

2026-09-04T14:16:12-07:00

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 4 (IPS) - Across the Kenya-Tanzania rangelands, communities have long understood a reality that the global community is increasingly recognising: healthy rangelands support livelihoods, wildlife, water resources and local economies. They are among Africa’s most important natural assets and a foundation for resilience in a changing climate.

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Nepalese Experts, Victims Contemplate the Future After the Flood

2026-09-04T12:47:45-07:00

KATHMANDU, September 4 (IPS) - That day, Subash Tamang was mining sand along the banks of the Trishuli River near the Trishuli Hydropower Project, working alongside his wife, brother, sister-in-law, and two other family members. Suddenly, he noticed water gushing down from above the hydropower site. His first thought was that the dam had burst.

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Between the Reef and the Stars - A reflection on humanity’s twin longings

2026-09-04T05:14:58-07:00

VICTORIA, Seychelles, September 4 (IPS) - There is an older wisdom, quieter than the noise of our times, that whispers a simple truth: we are not the architects of nature, only its guests. Long before there were nations, economies, or even language, there was the pulse of the tide, the patience of coral, the breath of forests exchanging air with the sky. Into that ancient conversation we arrived — late, curious, and forgetful — mistaking our cleverness for sovereignty and our tools for wings.

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Strengthen Africa’s Seed Systems El Niño Threat Becomes Reality Again

2026-09-03T09:04:28-07:00

KIGALI, September 3 (IPS) - As climate disasters frequent across the African continent, governments have been promoting climate-smart innovations, including the development of drought-resistant crops.

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Africa Has the Answers to Its Food Security Challenges. What It Needs Is the Architecture to Act on Them

2026-09-03T05:51:26-07:00

KIGALI, Rwanda, September 3 (IPS) - As leaders gather in Kigali for the Africa Food Systems Forum, they face an urgent question: why do so many proven agricultural innovations still fail to reach the farmers and communities that need them most?

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El Niño is surging. Months of extreme heat could follow

2026-09-03T05:00:00-07:00

Fuelled by exceptionally warm Pacific waters, the El Niño climate pattern is intensifying and has yet to peak. Forecasters are almost certain it will persist through February 2027 – with unusually warm conditions expected across much of the world in the coming months.

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Families in Desperate Search for Victims of the ‘Himalayan Tsunami’ in Nepal

2026-09-02T16:36:03-07:00

KATHMANDU, September 2 (IPS) - On Sunday afternoon, Mingma Tamang, 29, rushed into the TU Teaching Hospital’s emergency ward, where a rescue team had just brought in an injured person in the Rasuwa flash flood – but she soon left grim-faced.

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‘Fight for humanity’: Avoiding a climate catastrophe means acting now

2026-09-02T05:00:00-07:00

Record heat waves, deadly flooding and extreme weather reflect an ever-warming planet poised to soon breach safe temperature limits, according to a UN report released on Tuesday, but doubling down on climate action now could avoid a climate catastrophe.

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Deadly Flash Floods in Nepal Kill Hundreds and Leave Over 4,200 Missing

2026-09-01T07:04:49-07:00

UNITED NATIONS, September 1 (IPS) - On the morning of August 26, an unprecedented series of flash floods struck Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, causing immense destruction, killing hundreds of civilians and leaving thousands missing. Entire neighborhoods have been buried underwater and beneath mud as the Nepalese government and humanitarian organizations rush to provide emergency assistance.

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The Drylands Dividend: The Smart Investment for Powering a Water-Scarce World

2026-09-01T06:32:21-07:00

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 1 (IPS) - Open a can of something fizzy and the reason the sugar doesn’t separate immediately is gum arabic, tapped by hand from acacia trees across the Sahel. Spray on perfume and the reason the scent is still there at dinner is frankincense, a resin cut from Boswellia trees on the dry escarpments of the Horn of Africa. The fat that gives a chocolate bar its snap may well be shea, gathered and pressed by women in the parkland belt of West Africa. The cashmere jumper came from goats that can only be raised on cold, dry rangelands.

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