Without U.N. intervention, the tanker could have released as much as four times the oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez in 1989.
After months of preparation, an international team began removing up to 1.14 million barrels of crude oil from the decaying F.S.O. Safer supertanker off Yemen's Red Sea coast in a bid to prevent an environmental catastrophe.
The U.N.-led project entails pumping oil from the F.S.O. Safer, which has been at risk of breaking up or exploding, onto a replacement vessel dubbed the MOST Yemen, officials said on Tuesday. The ship-to-ship oil transfer is expected to last 19 days.
IUGS rejected declaring that we live in a new epoch defined by far-reaching human impacts on the planet since the 1950s.
Proposed by the U.S. and co-sponsored by China and more than 120 other nations, its passage represented a moment of international cooperation through science diplomacy.
A top U.N. official cites strong concerns about mental privacy, which is 'a line that we should not cross at all' as AI develops.
The Open Quantum Institute began a three-year pilot phase hosted by the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
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.
