Grim climate outlook for world's poor
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Findings of UN panel on global warming put African and Asian regions among those most at risk.
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With little progress on the primary goal of United Nations climate talks, a secondary quest to help poor countries cope with global warming has now become a central theme of the gathering.
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The World Bank says nearly half the world&#39;s population lives on less than $2 a day. In its annual World Development Report, which draws upon surveys of 30,000 firms in more than 50 developing countries, the
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Few consequences of global warming pose as severe a threat to human society as sea-level rise. But scientists have yet to figure out how to predict it.
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The day's first word went to a tiny island nation with a big sinking feeling. Leading off the U.N. General Assembly's second day of talks on climate change, Tuvalu issued a cry for help Tuesday on dealing with the impact of global warming on its 10,000 people, who live on nine low-lying coral atolls in the South Pacific being lapped at by rising seas.
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Africa's poor millions, already  suffering grinding poverty and rampant disease, risk bearing  the brunt of the global warming crisis unless urgent action is  taken now, a leading Nigerian scientist said Wednesday.
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More than 100 nations struggled Monday to strike a balance between what rich and poor countries must do to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.
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The World Bank says fewer people than ever are living in extreme poverty in East Asia and the Pacific due to economic growth of around seven per cent.
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South Asia and southern Africa may be hardest hit by climate change-related food shortages by 2030.
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Coping with the ravages of global warming will cost $50 billion a year, and the rich nations who caused most of the pollution must pay most of the bill, aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday.
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Sharp drop in economic confidence hitting poorest people hardest, Guardian/ICM research reveals
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A weak El Nino during the next three months will mean cooler and wetter weather in part of the U.S. South and drier conditions in some areas of Indonesia, Africa and Australia, U.S. government weather forecasters said on Thursday.
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LONDON, Oct 20 (IPS) - Environmental and development groups have come   together to warn that global warming threatens the Millennium  Development  Goals.
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Suppose that the pessimistic forecasts of global warming are accurate. Suppose that the planet's temperature rises according to the high-end scenario of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and that we experience the economic and social impacts (like hunger, malaria and coastal flooding) projected by the much-publicized Stern Review sponsored by the British government. [...].
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Delicate wetlands, coasts and wildlife   sanctuaries could be ravaged as part of a struggle to stretch   the world's water supplies, with the worst damage foreseen in   poor countries.
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More than 1.5 billion people will have high blood pressure by 2025, and the world's poorest countries will be worst hit, warn experts.
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Millions more South Asians will suffer from diseases like malaria and cholera, or go hungry due to global warming, but governments are not fully aware of the dangers, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.