Bolivia — When the tap across from her mud-walled home dried up in September, Celia Cruz stopped making soups and scaled back washing for her family of five. She...

Authorities predict that Colombia’s current drought will be particularly severe due to the “El Niño” effect, while water rationing has already begun...

The Arab states are responsible for less than 5 percent of the world’s total carbon emissions, but according to the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED),...

Temperature in Uganda will rose up to 1.5 degree Celsius over the next two decades. Its damaging agriculture and livelihood of whole communities, according population...

Mexico and Climate Change With heavily polluting oil industry, heavy use of road transport, and 110 million people, Mexico accounts for about 1.5% of global emissions....

She stops for long stretches, lost in thought, trying to make sense of how she’s been left half a person. Sunita, 18, who requested that her family name not be...

Being a Kenyan citizen, sometimes I wonder what would bring an end to the elusive drought that has claimed quite a number of lives as well as animals. I would be quick...

The Kenya Meteorological Society says rains have ended the country’s long drought but aid officials warn that millions of hungry people still need food...

1.02 billion people have gone hungry this year, according to a report released this year. This comes at a time when several regions in East Africa are threatened by...

President Felipe Calderon and the National Water Commission recently launched a new campaign in dire effort to raise critical awareness in water conservation. Mexico...

Environmentalists in Kenya and Africa, want to push for compensation from developed countries that are the major polluters. Through carbon trading, Kenya could claim a...

I was going through my emails and came along a photo of a dying kid who has gone for days without food and is short of some energy to even cry, the only reachable...

It is of course nature’s fury, whether it is the drought due to poor monsoons or the states of AP and Karnataka inundated under floods waters. But just imagine, if...

Vast lakes have shriveled. River beds have run dry. The animals are sick, the birds have flown elsewhere and an ancient way of life is facing a new threat to its...

A cattle-rustling attack in central Kenya has left 32 people dead, including three women and eight children, the Kenya Red Cross said. Al least 400 raiders attacked a...

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Tuesday left Ludhiana as he had come by train, joining top leaders of the party enforcing austerity measures amid a drought....

It is official now. Two hundred and seventy-eight districts out of approximately 604 districts in the country are reeling under drought and agriculture growth and in...

During five year drought in Bundelkhand, nearly fifty percent of its total population had migrated to metro cities like Delhi & Mumbai. In search of their...

The sun somehow feels closer here, more intense, more personal. As Philip Lolua waits under a tree for a scoop of food, heat waves dance up from the desert floor,...

The mist hangs thickly over rolling hills covered with a green patchwork of thigh-high tea bushes. Workers wearing boots and aprons move methodically through the...