Climate change and rapid urbanization are putting a growing number in the people in path of potentially devasting floods.

Africa's urgent need to expand its energy infrastructure while transitioning to renewable sources is creating a complex and potentially volatile situation. Competition for resources and influence from ...

Researchers warn against oversimplifying climate change’s role in conflicts. But some conditions can increase the likelihood ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Human-caused climate change worsened recent torrential rains and floods that devastated parts of southern Africa, killing more than 100 people and displacing hundreds of thousands, ...

Farming in the Great Lakes region of Africa (which includes Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Kenya) is challenging because of changing environments and ongoing ...

International donors are considering the need to direct funding toward the most fragile countries and sectors seen as least ...

The Climate Change Act, as endorsed by the President, is intended to enable the alignment of policies that influence South Africa’s climate change response to ensure that South Africa’s transition to ...

Climate change has become a pressing public health crisis around the world, as disease patterns worsen and emerge in regions where they did not exist before. Health experts are particularly concerned ...

Pinot noir is a grape that prefers a cooler climate and therefore is not commonly grown in South Africa. But a Western Cape ...

As heat, floods and drought intensify, governments, donors and cities rely on climate risk assessments to decide who gets support and where money goes. A climate risk assessment uses information on ...