NATO to tackle climate change for first time, summit communique to say
NATO is aiming to increase its awareness, adaptation, mitigation, and outreach efforts regarding climate change
Dance helps Congo's rape survivors cope with trauma
Congo's eastern borderlands have remained gripped by violence since the official end of a civil war in 2003
ANALYSIS-With Trump gone, NATO wages war on climate threat
Leaders of Western military alliance are set on Monday to agree a climate action plan to make their armed forces carbon-neutral by 2050 and adapt to global warming threats
Congo president says Kinshasa hospitals 'overwhelmed' by coronavirus
HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/CONGO:Congo president says Kinshasa hospitals 'overwhelmed' by coronavirus
Aid groups to G7: honour pledges or risk failure at climate summit
Advocacy groups said G7 countries had to deliver on a promise of $100 billion a year to adapt to the impacts of climate change
Somalia's Puntland moves to ban female genital mutilation
Banning female genital mutilation (FGM) would help curb the centuries-old practice in Somalia, which has the world’s highest rates of FGM, say campaigners
UK's Prince Charles says private sector needed to stand chance of solving climate crisis
Charles told the business chiefs that, working together with governments, 'we can move ... mountains'.
Australian floods turn fatal as Sydney shivers through cold snap
Temperatures in Sydney, the country's most most populous city, drop to just 10 degrees Celsius (50 degree Fahrenheit), a 37-year record
Canada's British Columbia grants indigenous request to defer old-growth logging
The protest revives a debate about protecting ancient forests and questions over whether environmentalists have a right to tell indigenous communities how to manage their resources
Global supply chain squeeze, soaring costs threaten solar energy boom
The situation suggests slower growth for the zero-emissions solar energy industry at a time world governments are trying to ramp up their efforts to fight climate change