Extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts, and floods, have increased in frequency by a factor of two or three ...

Climate Forward Catalyzing Africa’s Climate Potential A high-profile summit tries to kick-start the transition to clean energy.

African countries had 14 of the world’s 67 heat extreme events last year, and several had at least three months of hotter ...

Africa is in a race against time to adapt to climate change. We urgently need to mobilize climate finance and put it to work where it is needed most.

Human-caused climate change has made droughts of such severity at least 100 times as likely in this part of Africa as they were in the preindustrial era, an international team of scientists said ...

Some parts of the Sahara Desert will see five times their average August and September rainfall. A few areas could experience rain for the first time on record in August or September.

New analysis finds that climate change is heating up West Africa’s cocoa belt, with implications for global chocolate supplies.

Africa is heating up at a faster rate than the rest of the planet and enduring more severe climate and weather disasters such as droughts, a joint U.N.-African Union report said on Monday, warning ...

Analysis - The United Nations' 29th annual climate change conference of the parties, COP29, ended with countries from the global north committing US$300 billion per year in climate finance to ...

Australia's most populous city Sydney smashed a 70-year annual rainfall record Thursday after a year marked by devastating east coast floods.

While Africa should increase its fiscal efforts to adapt to climate change, Havenga notes that human ingenuity provides a silver lining to this very dark cloud.