A record number of outbreaks have been reported after droughts, floods and wars have forced large numbers of people to live in unsanitary conditions.

Native American tribes are competing for the first federal grants designed to help move communities away from high water and other dangers posed by climate change.

Wealthy nations must step up support for Africa and vulnerable countries in addressing past, present, and future impacts of climate change. The 2022 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints a dark picture of the future of life on earth, characterised by ecosystem collapse, species extinction, and climate hazards such as heatwaves and floods.

On June 24, 1988, The New York Times reported with an A1 headline: “Global warming has begun.”

From deadly floods in Nigeria to devastating drought in Somalia, Africa has faced a run of severe – and sometimes unprecedented – extreme weather events since the start of 2022.

You can never really see the future, only imagine it, then try to make sense of the new world when it arrives.

In temperate zones lie most of the world’s richest countries, which have also been up till now the world’s major breadbaskets, in meeting international grain, oilseed and livestock product needs.

Protecting children from the escalating impacts of heatwaves

Tanzania has made significant progress in the fight against malaria over the last 20 years thanks to bed nets, insecticides, and a vaccine, but new trends in the weather in East Africa seem to indicate there is a new threat to progress: climate change. and public health.

Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says.