Durban

Muddy water running through an informal settlement of huts

South African floods: Protecting people must include a focus on women and girls

Women and girls living in poverty face many forms of discrimination and pressure during events like flood disasters.

South African floods: Protecting people must include a focus on women and girls
A group of people hold up a large white sign with black letters and a yellow X through it.

Climate divestment activists draw inspiration from South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle

Climate divestment activists draw inspiration from South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle

Transplant Patients Compete in Olympic-like Games

Transplant Patients Compete in Olympic-like Games

Conclave Convenes as One Billion Catholics Wonder What's Next

Conclave Convenes as One Billion Catholics Wonder What's Next

After the Durban Climate Conference

After the Durban Climate Conference

UN Reaches Climate Deal in Durban, South Africa

UN Reaches Climate Deal in Durban, South Africa

Young Activist Speaks Out in Durban

An American student speaks truth to power, challenging delegates at the UN climate conference in Durban to take urgent action to curb climate warming gases.

Young Activist Speaks Out in Durban

Durban Climate Conference

A Groundbreaking Deal at the Durban Climate Summit commits the US, China, and 192 other nations to the same legal regime to limit greenhouse gas emissions, starting in 2020. Details are to be negotiated by 2015.

Durban Climate Conference

Climate Talks Face Stalemate

Marco Werman speaks with climate policy expert Kelly Sims Gallagher about the stalemate in the UN climate negotiations.

Climate Talks Face Stalemate

2011 Durban Climate Change Conference

2011 Durban Climate Change Conference
Emperor Penguins adults with chicks in Antarctica.

Sea Levels May Rise Faster Than Expected

Climate scientists say that as the world is warming up, polar ice is melting a lot faster than expected. And many of the world's coastal regions are at grave risk.

Sea Levels May Rise Faster Than Expected

Climate Change Talks in South Africa

International climate change negotiators are back at it his week in Durban, South Africa. Negotiators are scrambling to make significant progress in a process that seems to have fallen far behind the urgency of the the problem.

Climate Change Talks in South Africa

Assessing the UN Climate Change Conference

Assessing the UN Climate Change Conference

Durban Climate Talks

Climate negotiators are meeting in Durban, South Africa hoping to make progress on tackling soaring greenhouse gas emissions.

Durban Climate Talks
The World

Caravan of Hope

More than 25 bands from 11 different African nations are traveling across the continent to raise awareness about climate change.

Caravan of Hope