Climate change is a devastating force on its own, driving floods, droughts and raising temperatures worldwide. For countries already destabilized by conflict, it deepens humanitarian needs, making ...

The combined impact of climate change and conflict "can produce synergistic effects, leading to more severe and complex outcomes," warn experts in The BMJ's climate issue today. From 1995 to 2015, ...

African climate negotiators at the COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan have delivered a clear and urgent message – climate diplomacy must hold steady amid escalating global crises, from wars in ...

Climate change is no longer a distant threat—it is a lived reality, especially in fragile regions like Karamoja in Uganda and Turkana in Kenya. Ranked among the most climate-vulnerable countries ...

The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, has been widely framed as a "climate conflict" and a mass migration and uprising triggered by a severe drought. This very well-known and media-popular ...

Estimated median income loss or gain per person by 2050 due to climate change, compared to a scenario with no climate impacts (red colour indicates a loss, blue colour a gain). Photo: WIKIMEDIA This ...

The combined impact of climate change and conflict “can produce synergistic effects, leading to more severe and complex outcomes,” warn experts in The BMJ’s climate issue today. From 1995 to 2015, ...

Researchers are looking at the impact of climate change in communities affected by conflict and have found that many countries most impacted by these crises are being overlooked. "Talking to the ...

BAKU, November 20, 2024 – Already suffering from a decade of conflict, Yemen is facing mounting risks brought on by climate change, which is intensifying existing threats like water scarcity and food ...

“Talking to the people who had lost their lands and preparing for these cases made me realise how conflict and climate change were so closely connected,” said Ms Luisa Bedoya Taborda, who spent ...