
Most of U.N.'s most powerful members to skip high-level meeting
Despite the absences, the politics of catastrophe and climate inaction toward Earth's impaired health await the assembly's annual gathering of world leaders next week in New York.
Despite the absences, the politics of catastrophe and climate inaction toward Earth's impaired health await the assembly's annual gathering of world leaders next week in New York.
Oil producers took issue with a prediction by the energy agency's chief that demand for fossil fuels will peak by 2030.
The 1,157 protected sites account for less than 1% of Earth's surface but play vital roles as biodiversity hotspots.
WMO said the summer of extremes continues: July was the hottest month ever recorded and the high-impact weather continues through August.
The U.S., Albania, Japan, and South Korea led a U.N. Security Council session that shone a spotlight on starvation and repression under Kim Jong Un's regime.
African Union and West African regional bloc leaders supported deployment of a standby military force and demanded that Niger's junta release the ousted president.
ECOWAS' 15 nations set an Aug. 6 deadline for Niger's military to restore to power the democratically elected president.
As climate litigation increases, the body of legal precedent grows, forming an increasingly well-defined field of law.
Guterres' bid to revitalize multilateralism is at the heart of his “New Agenda for Peace” policy paper for the United Nations.
Mining the deep seas: The best way forward to a green energy transition, or a looming environmental disaster?
The biennial report noted the erosion of nuclear security coincides with growing nuclear security dangers and alarming increases in stockpiles of weapons-usable nuclear materials.
The United States signaled its intent to return to UNESCO and pay arrears after China became its biggest contributor and a Chinese diplomat took over as deputy chief.
Speakers blamed major economies for a system that puts profits over fighting poverty and caring for the planet.
"Let's face facts. The problem is not simply fossil fuel emissions. It's fossil fuels – period," he said.
The total number of nuclear warheads fell worldwide, but the amount of operational nuclear weapons started to rise.
The U.N. General Assembly's vote for the next five seat-holders on the powerful Security Council for 2024-25 delivered a resounding win to an E.U. member over a Russian ally.