How can we lower disaster risk? Have a strategy, look for vulnerability and be accountable
As the world’s governments meet in Mexico to discuss efforts to cut disaster risk, good options for progress exist
Five dead, 19 missing after Haiti rains, flooding - officials
Haiti has been grappling with a heavy rainy season this year and is recovering from Hurricane Matthew, which devastated much of the country's southwest last October
Canada ready to impose pollution caps, fuel tax on provinces
"Making polluters pay is a critical part of any climate plan," says the country's environment minister
Fiji says U.S. faces climate risks, urges Trump to "stay in canoe"
"We hope we will all stay, as we say in the Pacific, in the same canoe"
Deadly flash floods set to worsen poverty and hunger in Kenya, experts say
The torrential seasonal rains have caused landslides and floods in coastal and western Kenya
Reversing climate change with carbon-sucking plantations not realistic, scientists warn
Physicists and economists "seem to think that because it's about green stuff it's somehow ecologically sound. But it's not," one scientist says
Environmentalists oppose plan to link Indian rivers
Clashes over water have become more frequent in India
World Bank loans Botswana $145.5 million for emergency water projects
In addition to mitigating drought impacts, the project will include waste water treatment and prevent pollution of vital downstream water resources
FACTBOX-World to tackle deadly disasters at U.N. forum
A list of the highest historical death tolls caused by extreme events and disasters such as lightning strikes, tropical cyclones and tornadoes
US works on climate interests relevant if Trump stays in UN pact
Trump has said he will decide after a Group of Seven summit in Italy on May 26-27 whether to "cancel" the Paris Agreement