Authorities said they deployed more than 1,700 firefighters over Wednesday and Thursday. The dead included more than 10 children and a similar number of firefighters, according to multiple sources including local journalists and the fire service. But officials have also been accused of a lack of preparation, with few firefighting...

Iraq on Sunday was yet again covered in a thick sheet of orange as it suffered the latest in a series of dust storms that have become increasingly common.

Abu Dhabi's Blue Carbon Project is a promising initiative to prevent increased carbon emissions caused by the destruction of ecosystems, which ultimately leads to climate change, said a top official of the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (AED). Dr Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri, Secretary-General of the EAD, said Blue Carbon refers...

Suriname, Tanzania, and Senegal have explored investment and other opportunities to collaborate with the stakeholders from across the region and the globe through the World EXPO2020 Dubai, according to CEO Clubs Network. CEO Clubs Network hosted "Suriname: Oasis of Opportunities for the ‘Republic of Suriname’ in the presence of the...

The summit's chair, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, said the agreement on deforestation was pivotal to the overarching ambition of limiting temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius. "These great teeming ecosystems –- these cathedrals of nature -- are the lungs of our planet," he was expected to say in Glasgow,...

An international team analysed data on carbon stored in trees across 44 highland sites in 12 African countries