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These days, it’s hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters, including the recent U.S. hurricanes. Aid agencies are increasingly worried about the widespread damage. A growing question as these disasters worsen in a warming world is how to pay for recoveries, particularly in poorer countries that have contributed the least to climate change. I am a climate scientist who researches disasters, and I work with disaster managers on solutions to deal with the increasing risk of extreme events. The usual sources of disaster aid funding haven’t come close to meeting the need in hard-hit countries in recent years. So, groups are developing new ways to meet the need more effectively. In some cases, they are getting aid to countries before the damage occurs. Disaster aid funds aren’t meeting growing need Countries have a few ways that they typically send money and aid to other countries that need help when dis...

The President of the Republic responded to Elon Musk's attacks against the Italian judiciary.LifeGate, meanwhile, stops publishing on X.

The first results of COP29, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, do not seem to give much hope regarding a real possibility of change with respect to environmental policies.There are numerous partners of the event involved in the fossil energy sector, while the president of Azerbaijan (COP host country), Ilham Aliyev, himself defined oil and gas as a "gift from God".In this context, the first results of the Conference were an estimate of the investments necessary, by the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), for the financing of sustainable policies by 2030 and the achievement of a official agreement on the global carbon market under the auspices of the United Nations.The latter, however, constitutes a form of true neocolonialism, as it is based on the exploitation of the lands and resources belonging to local communities to allow large companies to continue polluting undisturbed. The adoption of a global carbon market has been scope completed thanks to the work...

New images at a Lidl supplier's pig farm reveal inadequate conditions and animal abuse.After the chicken case, what will it take to stop the suffering?

After a year of genocide, displacement and division have torn apart families and transformed daily life for Palestinians.