Trump's climate stance looms over Arctic meeting
Arctic warming is opening up new oil reserves, shipping routes - intensifying a decades-long race for Arctic resources
FEATURE-In drought-hit Niger, women’s savings could be route to resilience
With village savings and loans associations, families have enough to eat and are putting away savings, even as they face more unreliable rainfall and climate change pressures
Build resilience to prevent repeat crises - U.N. chief
20 million people risk dying from starvation because of drought and conflict in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and northeast Nigeria
Tokyo urged to stop using cheap timber in centrepiece Olympic stadium
"Our wish is that this petition be accepted by Japan and that they stop importing timber from Sarawak that encroaches the land of the Penan and indigenous people"
G7 seen urging Trump to stick with climate pact at summit
Leaders ask President Trump to stay in Paris pact even though his plans for coal and oil are out of line with drive for cleaner energy
Rise in micro-grids could penalise U.S. city's poor - experts
"We are witnessing perhaps the twilight of the macro-grid, and the dawn of the micro-grid"
FEATURE-How to milk the coconut boom? Philippine farmers check their phones
A project to provide coconut farmers with advice over their mobile phones aims to help them cash in on a growing market and lift them out of poverty
Trump to make decision on Paris climate pact after G7 summit
President Trump's advisers and cabinet chiefs have been split over whether he should pull the U.S. out of Paris Agreement
People, not politicians key to fighting climate change - Obama
"The energy to bring about change is going to come from what people do every day"
Laws to tackle climate change exceed 1,200 worldwide - study
"Most countries have a legal basis on which future action can be built" - U.N. climate change chief