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To help demystify and open up conversations on climate change, The Third Pole has compiled this glossary of key terms, available in five languages.

There are alternative pathways to avert danger.

Experts gathered in Kathmandu for the first-ever Inter-Polar Conference, organized jointly by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland. They called for regional cooperation and sharing of insights between the Arctic and the Hindu Kush Himalayas, as both regions are facing temperature rise and the thawing of the cryosphere. The conference aims to bridge the knowledge gap and find sustainable solutions to the common ch...

Open access notables In this weeks government/NGO reports section, another rapid assessment by World Weather Attribution, an outfit dedicated to keeping us informed of the impacts of climate change on weather events happening around us right now. WWAs new report Climate change more than doubled the likelihood of extreme fire weather conditions in Eastern Canada finds:

Lacking alternatives, the region’s rural inhabitants have long turned to the forest for fuel, but the environmental consequences are building

Both countries are overlooking environmental issues while signing hydropower deals.

Spanish authorities evacuated four villages in Tenerife as wildfires broke out in the nature park surrounding Mount Teide volcano.

Lou Del Bello has joined Bloomberg as India energy and commodities editor. She will also write enterprise stories for Bloomberg Climate. She is founder and…

The August 4 landslide that hit the pilgrimage route is a fresh reminder of the area’s vulnerability.

Human-caused global warming made July hotter than average for four out of five people globally, according to a new flash study.