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The U.N. weather agency is reporting that 2023 was the driest year in more than three decades for the world's rivers, as the record-hot year underpinned a drying up of water flows and contributed to prolonged droughts in some places.

The keys to combating the climate change that's wreaking havoc on Germany's beer industry could lie inside a plant nursery — nicknamed "our kindergarten" — at the Society of Hop Research north of Munich.

An international public-private partnership is supercharging coffee breeding to save your morning brew.

Extreme heat and droughts are making it harder to grow grapes in many traditional regions. Here’s how scientists are helping the industry adapt.

The trend is bad news for shelters and wildlife alike.

A legal fight is ramping up over who should manage Alaska's dwindling salmon populations — and who gets access to them.

For Muskan, the arrival of summer in Delhi is the “beginning of hell.” As temperatures in her cramped, densely populated east Delhi neighbourhood often soar above 45 C, she dreams of only one thing: air conditioning.

Floods and storms accounted for 95 per cent of recorded child displacement between 2016 and 2021, according to the first-of-its-kind analysis by UNICEF and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The rest — more than two million children — were displaced by wildfires and drought.

With deadly extreme weather hitting all over the globe, rising temperatures peaking during the hottest summer on record and carbon pollution levels that keep climbing, Britain’s Prince William and wealthy entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg promised a warming world a degree of hope.

Physicians and medical schools around the world are tailoring their approach to public health as climate-related illnesses rise.

James Hansen, who testified before the U.S. Congress on global heating in 1988, says world is approaching a "new climate frontier."

The fingerprints of climate change are all over the supercharged weather witnessed this year in Nova Scotia -- and the rest of the country -- from raging wildfires to devastating flooding.

Researchers say bumpier air travel is driving up costs and increasing the risks for passengers and crews.

The Colorado River is on the brink of collapse and the Grand Canyon is in the crosshairs, according to American Rivers, the conservation group that compiles the annual endangered list.

"Canadian lakes are warming twice as fast as the rest of the lakes globally," said York University biologist Sapna Sharma, a co-author of a paper published in the journal Bioscience.