Potatoes crucial to global food security but vulnerable to climate change, which threatens disease and blight.
With tens of thousands already displaced, both countries set up shelters in anticipation of further downpours.
As the threat from plastic pollution mounts, countries could only agree to postpone negotiations to a later date.
![INC-5 Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso brings down a gavel, made with recycled plastic bottle tops from the Dandora landfill in Nairobi, to mark an agreement that talks will resume at a later date, during an open plenary of the fifth session of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC-5) in Busan, early on December 2, 2024. - Negotiators have failed to reach agreement on a landmark treaty to curb plastic pollution and need more time to continue discussions, the diplomat chairing the talks in South Korea said on December 1, 2024. [Anthony Wallac/ AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/AFP__20241201__36NY8M9__v1__HighRes__SkoreaUnEnvironmentPlastic-1733085433.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
The Commonwealth faces questions about its relevance amid climate change and inequality. Can it adapt to changes?
The Plant Based Treaty is an initiative that puts food systems at the center of tackling the climate crisis.
India’s capital New Delhi is swamped by smog, and air pollution kills 2 million Indians a year. But some suffer more.
![Shahbaz and Gola Noor segregating plastic waste from their daily collection in New Delhi, India [Yashraj Sharma/ Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_2551-1732828757.jpeg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Record snowfall in and around Seoul creates travel headache, with flights and ferries cancelled.
A little bit of Italy is about to become a little bit of Switzerland.
Women play a vital part in finding a solution to climate change.
Island nations say recycling insufficient to solve problem when 400 million tonnes of plastic waste is produced yearly.
Landslides and flashfloods hit Indonesia’s northern Sumatra Island following torrential rains.
Rescue workers use excavators and bare hands to find disaster victims in Karo district, one of three affected.
These two institutions enslave climate-stricken nations with debt, worsening the impact of any climate disaster.
Flood-hit Paiporta mayor pledges to hold leaders accountable for crisis handling, with legal action if necessary.
