New measurements show a dramatic decline in the health of glaciers and sea ice, perpetuating the cycle of warming.
It's been a tough few years to be ice: a big melt is having devastating effects ranging from the Swiss Alps to Antarctica.
Two catastrophic years of extreme warming wiped out 10% of Swiss glacier volume, an amount equal to what was lost between 1960 and 1990, the Swiss Commission for Cryosphere Observation reported on Thursday.
Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
This year and next mark the countdown to a 2025 deadline for governments to strengthen their carbon-cutting plans.
The France-based court was created to uphold the European Convention on Human Rights, which took effect in 1953.
Negotiators and officials aim to wrap up so that May's 77th World Health Assembly can consider a proposed text.
Fourteen cases remain under investigation by U.N. investigators, who have met with authorities in Israel.
The chair of the talks called for optimism despite divisions among plastic-producing nations and those urging restraints.
The number of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity has increased every year since 2019.
The group of organizations that reviewed the U.N. agency recommends several ways of strengthening its neutrality.
