As Bangladesh faces worsening climate change impacts on a warming planet, health professionals and organisations in the country are increasingly concerned about deteriorating mental health.

This year has already seen a drought in Spain and fierce heat waves in China as well the US.

The UN-convened Net-Zero Insurance Alliance now has 12 members, down from a peak of 30.

Longer and more intense heat waves will pose a life-and-death threat in the coming decades across large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, along with areas straddling the equator in Africa and Latin America.

Climate-related disruptions to the crucial Hindu Kush-Himalayan water system are posing risks to economic development and energy security in 16 Asian countries.

The Thai prime minister urges participants at the Apec summit to seek sustainable growth and development after economic and social challenges from Covid, climate change and geopolitical rivalries.

The abandonment of parched fields, suicides among farmers and violent protests by jobless young men all point to a country that is struggling to recover from decades of war in the face of a worsening climate crisis.

The gallery says the incident has caused minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed.

US officials say Canada and Germany intend to formally join the initiative, which seeks to coordinate assistance to the strategically vital region in the face of competition from China.

According to data from the World Cities Culture Forum, only 10% of Paris is made up of green space such as parks and gardens compared to London at 33% and Oslo at 68%.

Without human-caused climate change, which has warmed the world 1.2C above pre-industrial temperatures, such an event would have been extremely unlikely, scientists say.

Hundreds fled in central Italy as gas tanks exploded in a forest fire near the Tuscan town of Lucca, while similar numbers fled in Greece as a blaze fuelled by gale-force winds raged in mountains north of Athens.