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More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025
In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to preliminary figures from the International Disaster Database.
Worries grow for Sulawesi farmers as nickel mining company plans expansion
Farmers around Indonesia’s Lake Towuti say plans to expand nickel mining for electric vehicle batteries threaten their ancestral lands, livelihoods and some of Sulawesi’s richest biodiversity.
Many Amazon climate disasters are missing from official records, study finds
More than 12,500 extreme climate events were registered in the Amazon biome between 2013 and 2023, according to a recent study, but many more events were never recorded.
How US intervention could deepen Venezuela’s environmental crisis
When U.S. forces entered Venezuela earlier this month and removed President Nicolás Maduro, officials framed the intervention as a strategic economic opportunity. President Donald Trump repeatedly pointed to the country’s oil reserves and rare earth minerals, saying U.S. companies stood to earn billions of dollars.
The knowledge to save coffee already exists, now it’s in one e-library
Roughly half the world’s arabica coffee-growing regions will become unsuitable for cultivation of the crop by 2050 due to the effects of climate change.
Peruvian Amazon: Wounds remain after 50 years of oil spills on Achuar land
Achuar Indigenous people from the community of José Olaya live near sites impacted by oil-related activity in and around their territory. According to reports by Peru’s environmental authority, toxic metals like cadmium, arsenic and lead have been detected in the area.
How will climate change affect Latin America? Scientists respond to IPCC report
In the first three months of 2023, Latin America has witnessed a prolonged drought and destructive forest fires in Chile, intense rains and floods in Brazil that left more than 60 dead and Cyclone Yaku and heavy rains and mudslides in Peru, among other extreme events that experts say are becoming more frequent and severe due to global warming.














