
Hotter than ever, world holds U.N. climate talks under cloud of doubt
'Minutes to midnight': World hits 1.4° of warming as Dubai summit opens with new fund and report disputing a leader's credibility.
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'Minutes to midnight': World hits 1.4° of warming as Dubai summit opens with new fund and report disputing a leader's credibility.
The election adds only the sixth female judge and denies Russia a seat for the first time in the court's 77-year history.
Government plans would blow past limits needed to limit warming to 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
But the world's five biggest science and technology clusters are now in East Asia; Japan's is the largest and China has the most.
At the end of a weeklong visit, the U.N. investigator's findings of an orchestrated state policy contradict Moscow’s denials.
As climate litigation increases, the body of legal precedent grows, forming an increasingly well-defined field of law.
Delegates in Geneva mustered a non-binding report that essentially prolongs a decade-old geopolitical impasse.
Most of the world's 8 billion inhabitants prefer to stay within their nation of birth, but almost 1-in-20 have left that behind.
Concerns are rising about the risk of a "twindemic" of COVID-19 and influenza as their seasons collide this winter.
Indigenous communities have long coped with climate uncertainties. Researchers suggest tapping that knowledge.
A UN report finds wildfires are burning longer and hotter, and will likely become more frequent in some areas.
U.N. officials released a 2021 humanitarian plan that projects a 40% increase in people who need aid from a year earlier.
Japan strengthened inspections as part of efforts to improve regulation in the wake of the Fukushima Daichi accident.
Millions of children worldwide skipped classes to send a message they want governments to lead on the climate crisis.
Refugees International gave the Trump administration's U.S. practices a 'failing grade' for a second year in a row.
The E.U.'s antitrust probe of the Libra project focuses on concerns it would improperly shut out rival payment systems.