Perhaps the biggest threat comes from natural disasters, which climate change is making more common and intense. Take the ...

High-resolution satellite imagery has been used to map every single tree in Africa, demonstrating a technique that could help improve the monitoring of deforestation across the world. Florian ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to aid worker Daud Jiran about a drought, linked to climate change, that has led to famine in the Horn of Africa.

However, a major, continent-wide historical climate study shows that eastern Africa experienced droughts – at least as bad as those in recent decades – throughout the 1820s and 1830s, during ...

The drought that has left some 4.35 million people in the Horn of Africa in dire need of humanitarian aid - with 43,000 in Somalia estimated to have died last year - would not have been possible ...

Africa produces less than 4% percent of global carbon emissions. LONDON -- Dozens of world leaders and heads of state are gathered in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, as the Africa Climate Summit 2023 ...

As southern Africa enters its traditional dry season this month, vast parts of the region — including Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and ...

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 7, 2023, Section A, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: At Africa’s First Climate Summit, a Clear Call to the World: Invest in Us.