Negotiators released new U.N. proposals to share revenues from drugs, cosmetics, and agricultural biotechnology.
A United Nations biodiversity summit this fall seeks to give Indigenous and local communities a bigger slice of the "multitrillion-dollar revenues and other benefits“ from the DNA sequences of plants, animals and microbes.
The move comes as Germany's Astrid Schomaker, a high-ranking European Commission environmental official, became executive secretary of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity on Monday.
The order would allow exploratory mining of the ocean floor that is overseen by an organization the U.S. hasn't joined.
The bleaching event began at the start of 2023 and continues today, affecting 82 nations, territories and economies.
Three days of talks in Rome ended with nations agreeing to support a $200 billion a year global plan to protect nature.
People living in drylands doubled to 2.3 billion, more than a quarter of the world population, in the past three decades.
A Palestinian diplomat told the U.N.'s top court that Israel uses aid as a 'weapon of war,' targeting civilians and aid workers.
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A human rights group and journalists question Beijing's use of 'Chinese government-organized NGOs' at the United Nations.
A day after saying a deal with Russia was close, Trump expressed doubt that Putin is willing to end the Ukraine war.
