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Women in conflict-affected and environmentally vulnerable areas face disproportionate impacts from climate change and armed conflict due to existing vulnerabilities and structural inequalities. Despite these challenges, women are vital agents of change and resilience. Addressing these interconnected issues requires gender-responsive approaches that acknowledge the complex relationship between women's roles in peacebuilding and the impacts of climate change.

Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons cause the greatest damage in the world’s most impoverished regions. And because of climate change, they’re only getting worse.

Learn more about key facts, causes and effects of climate change, and ongoing solutions to climate crisis.

Climate refugees – or climate migrants – grow in number each year. While we all experience the effects of climate change, some groups suffer disproportionately. These include women and children in the most vulnerable regions in the world. Here’s how to help.

From Kenya to Mongolia, on Earth Day, meet these four youth activists taking the charge in making climate action happen in their communities.

The climate crisis impacts those who contribute the least to the problem. Here are three major ways children are impacted by climate change.

As the World Leaders Summit on Climate Change (COP26) ends, world leaders must take action to help the poorest countries adapt to climate change and turn the tide on a devastating hunger crisis.

Michael Messenger talks with Annamie Paul, Leader of the Green Party of Canada about the disproportionate impact of climate shocks on the most marginalized people – and what Canada should do about it. Read on.

Tony Rinaudo, World Vision’s chief climate action advisor, sees the hunger crisis unfolding in East Africa as a chance to implement long-term environmental solutions that could eliminate famine completely.

The impacts of climate change in vulnerable communities around the world are driving children like Cavo to seek sex work and other degrading work to survive.

Clean water is vital to our wellbeing, but it's become a luxury to many around the world. By 2050, half the world's population may no longer have safe water.

After the COVID crisis is over, if we continue business as usual, where are we headed and what will be the impact on ourselves and our children if our behaviour towards the planet and each other remains the same?

Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are facing a [deadly] locust infestation that is threatening food supplies and decimating agricultural lands.

It’s the 31st anniversary of International Development Week and we’re celebrating the steps we’re taking together to fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Amina is just two years old and severely malnourished. Her family lost everything in a drought that began long before she was born. Read her story.

Incessant rain and severe flooding has led to deaths of 324 people and affected more than 32 million people across the Indian state of Kerala.

Check out this year's seasonal snapshots: World Vision Canada's highlight reel!

A second earthquake in Mexico has caused extensive damage and more than 200 casualties, including children. Hundreds are trapped inside partially collapsed buildings. 

Hurricane Irma has passed over islands in Latin America and the Caribbean, but Hurricane Maria is now braced to hit the Dominican Republic.

Floods, droughts, cyclones - climate change is hardest on the world’s poorest people, as weather patterns turn deadly, destroying homes and disrupting livelihoods.