Diabetes now affects 1 in 6 pregnancies: What you need to know
Diabetes is one of the world’s fastest-growing health challenges – [...]
COP30: Climate crisis is a health crisis, WHO warns as philanthropies pledge $300m for solutions
Climate change is already fueling a global health emergency, killing [...]
From Haiti to Ethiopia: voices of climate displacement at COP30
Floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms are forcing millions from their [...]
Protecting lives in a warming world: Health takes centre stage at COP30
Hailed by Brazil as “a crucial moment to demonstrate the [...]
Ethiopia: UN supports response to potentially deadly virus outbreak
The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting Ethiopia as the [...]
Gaza: War has made children violent, sad and bereft
More than nine in 10 children in Gaza are displaying [...]
World News in Brief: Typhoon generation, disability rights in Myanmar, new refugee-led climate fund
The strongest typhoon to make landfall this year in the Philippines [...]
Stand your ground: How one community in Brazil is coping with rising tides
For more than 40 years Ivanil lived in a house [...]
World News in Brief: Gaza latest, Americas loses measles-free status, tornado recovery in Brazil
At least 600,000 litres of desperately needed diesel fuel has [...]
TB cases fall for first time since pandemic
Tuberculosis, or TB, remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious [...]
‘A wave of truth’: COP30 targets disinformation threat to climate action
Negotiators in Belém, Brazil, opened COP30 with a stark warning: [...]
At-risk mountain vipers and iguanas, in rare company at key wildlife talks
Renewed efforts to protect the world’s most exotic and endangered [...]
Keeping cool on a hotter planet: COP30 pushes for sustainable cooling and AI innovation
As the planet heats up, so does the race for [...]
From pledges to action: Leaders push for faster climate progress at COP30
COP30 opened in Belém on Monday with a clear message: [...]
Social development, up close: UN News goes inside the Doha summit
UN News just tested a new way to cover big international meetings – by reporting straight from the conference floor.
Refugee camps set to be uninhabitable by 2050 as extreme weather worsens
At least 117 million people have been displaced by war, [...]
Safeguarding clean water access as climate threats rise
As health emergencies multiply linked to the climate crisis, governments [...]
Holding on to home, as the ocean engulfs the Solomon Islands
Morning light spreads over Sikaiana, a remote atoll in the [...]
COP30 kicks off with urgent call to deliver on climate promises and scale up finance
Thousands of diplomats and climate experts are heading to Belém, [...]
In Brazil, Guterres calls for ‘fair, fast and final’ shift to clean energy
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is continuing his campaign to accelerate [...]