Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to UNICEF’s Children’s Climate Risk Index, an estimated 55 million children in Latin America are exposed to water ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Billionaire philanthropist and tech entrepreneur Bill Gates is pressing the global community to shift its focus in the climate ...

Health and climate action can be designed together, supporting and reinforcing each other, instead of being treated as ...

NEW YORK — Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of civilization. He thinks scientific innovation will curb it, and it’s instead time for a “strategic pivot” in ...

The strategies employed to mitigate climate change have implications for “advancing human well-being in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries,” according to new findings. Noting the economic ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone ...

Governor Jerry Brown is at the Vatican, where the Pope is hosting a conference on climate change. One warning siren about climate change rose above the rest this week, from prominent climate scientist ...

Cyclones, floods and other disasters forced people from their homes 45.8 million times last year, official figures show, nearly double the annual average over the past decade. Virtually all of these ...

A new report from the World Bank warns that more than 100 million people could be driven into extreme poverty by the effects of global warming, the Thomson Reuters Foundation writes. The study, issued ...

Tackling climate change, emerging health threats, and poverty in developing countries will top Google.org’s philanthropic agenda. After more than a year of research and planning, the charitable arm of ...

Sept. 8 (UPI) --Nearly 6 million children and young people in Latin America will fall into poverty by 2030 because of climate change's impact on their communities, a recent report predicts. However, ...