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Without substantial changes in farming practices, rising emissions from land-use will jeopardize the goals of the Paris Agreement, a new study has found.

A new open-access book on building adaptation and resilience in Africa is helping other countries tackle emerging climate risks. Here are two case studies.

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Newfoundland: Learning From Norway One thousand years ago, the Norwegian Vikings ventured into the unforgiving mighty Atlantic Ocean to find new lands. As fate would have it, they discovered the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland. With a similar coastline, fishing, hunting and gathering, the Vikings must have felt very much at home in Newfoundland and Labrador.  Today, we can see the remnants of the timber-sod homes made by the Vikings, nestled into the shores of Lance-aux-...

From 1880, the Earth's average surface temperature has risen by 0.07°C every decade, significantly fuelled by human developments such as industrial revolutions.

U.N. Women's Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has called for more women in leadership roles to help the COVID-19 recovery. 119 nations have never had a woman leader.

AfCFTA will not only have an important boosting effect for African businesses, livelihoods and exports, it aims to be an example of cooperation the world can follow.

“Our reconstruction shows that the first half of the Holocene was colder than in industrial times due to the cooling effects of remnant ice sheets from the previous glacial period—contrary to previous reconstructions of global temperatures,” says lead author Samantha Bova, a postdoctoral researcher associate in the lab of coauthor Yair Rosenthal, professor in the department of marine and coastal sciences and department of earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. S...

Chinese tech giant Huawei's founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei said Tuesday the company still relies on globalization to resolve its current challenges and is committed to the globalization strategy.

According to the International Labor Organization, Jordan has the highest percentage of female managers, but only five countries have reached gender parity.