World News in Brief: Hunger in the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean, climate and displacement crisis in Somalia, World Breastfeeding Week
Nearly 3.2 million people in the English and Dutch-Speaking Caribbean [...]
Trade measures critical to ending plastic pollution
Trade must be part of the solution to end plastic [...]
Tsunami alert highlights worth of global early warning system
Early warning systems kicked in overnight across Pacific coastal communities [...]
Pollution, melting microbes, undamming rivers, risks for elders: 4 key climate issues
In a world increasingly shaped by climate extremes, environmental experts [...]
Deep-sea must not turn into ‘Wild West’ of rare minerals exploitation, agency head says
Nations are pursuing underwater exploration for highly sought-after rare earth [...]
World Court says countries are legally obligated to curb emissions, protect climate
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, Netherlands, [...]
Deep dive into the International Seabed Authority: Why it matters now
Protecting underwater ecosystems from the growing interest in rare mineral [...]
UN’s Guterres declares fossil fuel era fading; presses nations for new climate plans before COP30 summit
UN Secretary‑General António Guterres declared the world has “passed the [...]
Droughts are causing record devastation worldwide, UN-backed report reveals
Worldwide, some of the most widespread and damaging drought events [...]
Deadly floods show need for faster, wider warnings, UN agency says
From the Himalayas to rural Texas, deadly floods this month [...]
Pakistan reels under monsoon deluge as death toll climbs
Pakistan’s monsoon emergency deepened on Thursday as authorities declared disaster [...]
World Horse Day: Honoring humanity’s oldest and most loyal companion
Spacious paddocks, green pastures, and a devoted all-female staff: on [...]
‘Very limited time to react’: Texas flash floods expose challenges in early warning
The deadly flash floods in central Texas that claimed more [...]
South Sudan’s longest cholera outbreak enters critical stage
On the eve of the fourteenth anniversary of its independence, [...]
Chile and Argentina among coldest places on Earth as polar anticyclone grips region
Temperatures across lower South America have plummeted – falling as [...]
50 years of CITES: Protecting wildlife from trade-driven extinction
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild [...]
Northern hemisphere heatwave underscores value of early-warning alerts
The blistering early-summer heatwave that’s brought life-threatening temperatures across much [...]
Human rights can be a ‘strong lever for progress’ in climate change, says UN rights chief
The UN’s top rights official on Monday urged the international [...]
Tide of change in Philippines as women revive watersheds and livelihoods
In the coastal town of Sasmuan, Philippines, life flows with [...]
Asia is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world
In April 2024, China broke the average temperature record that [...]