Climate-impacted global bleaching of corals threatens marine fisheries
Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
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Climate scientists have warned for decades about bleaching of coral reefs, which are nurseries for commercial fisheries.
Escalating violence prompts U.N. condemnation as lawless gangs terrorize and displace thousands and impede aid.
A handful of fossil fuel producing countries and industries show no interest in a strong, restrictive and legally binding instrument.
Oil and plastic producing nations and lobbyists sought more emphasis on recycling instead of production cuts.
This is the third round of talks to develop an international legally binding deal that includes plastic waste in the ocean.
African leaders say they have a market-based plan to fight human-caused global warming that will spread economic development among millions of people on the continent.
The treaty body that gets the worst cooperation is the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
The summit ended with support for creating a "zero draft" treaty ahead of the next negotiations at Nairobi in November.
About 69% of all the plastics produced, mainly through fossil fuel burning, are used just once or twice before they are thrown away. About 22% is mismanaged. Just 9% is recycled.
Low rainfall and high evaporation rates 'would not have led to drought at all in a 1.2° C. cooler world,' scientists concluded.
Delegates from 175 nations to the U.N. Environment Assembly voted unanimously to devise a treaty that tries to cleanse the world of plastic pollution.
After warning of "a full-scale humanitarian crisis" in Ethiopia, United Nations officials said 32,000 people fled Tigray region and 200,000 more may follow.
Eight contenders from Britain, Egypt, Kenya, Mexico, Moldova, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and South Korea have until September 7 to campaign for the job of WTO chief.
East Africa faces the worst invasion of desert locust swarms in decades from a new generation of the world’s oldest and most destructive migratory pest.
U.N. officials unveiled a sweeping plan to avert Earth's sixth mass extinction, proposing a global wildlife treaty on the scale of the Paris climate accord.
Half the world uses the internet including 1.15 billion children who can benefit from it only if they can safely navigate it, an international commission said.