The deadly rainfall and flooding that devastated parts of West Africa this fall was 80 percent more likely to happen because of climate change, according to an international climate science ...

Rising sea levels and coastal erosion were identified as critical climate change challenges for West Africa by the World Bank. Coups and unconstitutional changes of governments in parts of West Africa ...

Prices of cocoa surged by 136% between July 2022 and February 2024, and climate extremes in West Africa’s cocoa belt, which produces 70% of the world’s cocoa, are partly to blame.

By Delger Erdenesanaa A remarkably early, record-breaking heat wave hit the southern part of West Africa in mid-February. Climate change made this extreme heat 10 times as likely, according to a ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — The lethal heatwave that hit West Africa earlier this month, overwhelming hospitals and mortuaries in parts of the region, would not have happened without human-caused climate ...

NIAMEY, April 18 (Reuters) - On a hospital bed in Niger, a 96-year-old woman lay motionless attached to a drip - one of thousands of possible victims of West Africa's worst heatwave in living ...

But chocolate continues to face a significant challenge: Climate change is threatening cacao production, particularly in West Africa, which produces around 70% of the world's supply. Rising ...

Local populations feel the effects of climate change ... ISS research in West Africa, some carried out as early as 2016, found that people joined insurgencies to protect themselves, their family ...

At COP 28, in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a newly minted Regional Declaration on Strengthening Climate Change Education in West Africa was launched to make the case that education holds the ...

In all of West Africa, more than 800 people died. Researchers have determined that human-caused climate change made the excessive rainfall behind the flooding 80 times more probable, according to ...