More than 420,000 children in the Amazon basin are being badly affected by a drought parching much of South America that is impacting water supplies…
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The experts’ assessment is clear: humans are the major threat to Earth’s land, seas and all the living things they shelter, including ourselves. The COP16…
Joyce Lakela runs a nursery in Tembisa, a township in Johannesburg, but these days, she spends most of her time trying to find water. “It’s…
South Korea’s government said on Wednesday that it will ensure 24,000 tonnes of cabbage are supplied from national stocks to provide support during the upcoming…
Acrid clouds engulfed India’s capital on Wednesday as air pollution fueled by fireworks and farm stubble burning was ranked “hazardous” by monitors for the first…
Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted over 70% in the last half-century, according to the latest edition of a landmark assessment by the…
Young people are facing an unprecedented wave of violence and sexual abuse driven by war, climate change, hunger and displacement, the U.N.’s special representative on…
A snowy winter provided no respite for Switzerland’s glaciers, which shed 2.4% of their volume in a year, with Sahara sand accelerating the summer melt.…
Earlier this month, on Dec. 6, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution co-sponsored by India to designate Dec. 21 as World Meditation…
It’s the uncomfortable talk that as a young woman, she knows she should have with her parents. They alluded to it, once, but couldn’t quite…