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This aerial picture taken from an airplane on July 27, 2021, shows the smoke rising from a forest fire outside the village of Berdigestyakh, in the republic of Sakha, Siberia. - Russia is plagued by widespread forest fires, with the Sakha-Yakutia region in Siberia being the worst affected. According to many scientists, Russia -- especially its Siberian and Arctic regions -- is among the countries most exposed to climate change. The country has set numerous records in recent years and in June 2020 registered 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit) in the town of Verkhoyansk -- the highest temperature recorded above the Arctic circle since measurements began. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

Northern forests released a record amount of carbon dioxide in 2021

2 March 2023

Heatwaves and droughts in Russia and Canada resulted in a big jump in carbon emissions from boreal forests in 2021, on the back of a rising trend since 2000

Dry ground in a former lagoon

Rare triple-dip La Niña is mostly to blame for South America's drought

22 February 2023

Historically dry and hot weather in Argentina and neighbouring countries is being driven by the La Niña weather system and exacerbated by climate change

Egyptian families walk in the streets of Alexandria on their way to a beach in Alexandria amid a heatwave

Low-income countries lose almost 7 per cent of their GDP to heatwaves

28 October 2022

Short spells of extreme heat can be enough to lower a region’s economic output for an entire year, according to a new analysis showing the unequal impact of global warming

Birds in the Amazon are adapting to climate change by getting smaller

Birds in the Amazon are adapting to climate change by getting smaller

12 November 2021

An analysis of 77 tropical bird species in the Amazon shows that all of them have shrunk and a third developed longer wings over the past 40 years

Flooded house

Climate change is leading to premature births in the Brazilian Amazon

1 March 2021

Extreme weather patterns and flooding worsened by climate change are adversely affecting the health of babies born in the Amazon rainforest

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