Sloane Callahan

Durban, one of Africa's fastest-growing coastal cities, now has the most detailed picture yet of where extreme rainfall will strike hardest. A team of researchers at the University of KwaZulu-Natal has produced a municipal-scale risk map of eThekwini Municipality that pinpoints, suburb by suburb, which communities face the greatest threat from the kind of torrential storms that killed more than 400 people in April 2022.

Climate change is often framed as a story of too much water or too little, but new research from Central China suggests the future may deliver both at once - more rain, and worse droughts.

The list of countries obligated to provide international climate finance has barely changed since it was drafted at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, but a new analysis suggests that a changing global economy and shifting geopolitical order are making this rigidity increasingly untenable.