Context provides news and analysis on three of the world’s most critical issues: Competition for water is growing around the world, particularly as climate change brings more erratic rainfall, harsher ...

Around the world, climate impacts - from harsher droughts to worsening storms and sea level rise - are already driving migration. What can be done to help people remain in their homes - or to make ...

Pakistan is facing power shortages, more extreme rainfall, drought and heatwaves, crop losses and other worsening threats from climate change. What is it doing in response?

As climate change brings more rapid melting of glaciers, build-ups of meltwater in mountain areas are worsening, leading to growing risk of devastating glacial lake outburst floods ...

General Ban Ki-moon shake hands following the closing news conference during the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Tur ...

Feminist university students shout slogans during a meeting to mark International Women's Day at the Central American University (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas ...

Climate change is warming seas and melting glaciers, slowing raising sea level around the world. That is threatening everything from low-lying islands to coastal communities, which are being hit with ...

Climate change is bringing more severe floods, droughts and other extreme weather around the globe. What can be done to cut the risks?

The United Nations appealed on Friday to the Saudi-led military coalition to fully lift its blockade of Yemen, saying up to eight million people were "right on the brink of famine". Earlier this week ...

A fire broke out on an atomic-powered submarine undergoing repairs at a shipyard near Russia's eastern coastal city of Vladivostok on Monday, but naval officials said there was no risk of a radiation ...

Bamako residents living near the city's river on Thursday (August 29) attempted to rescue what they could after flash floods killed at least 24 and devastated nearby neighborhoods, claiming people's ...