Biodiversity summit poses call to act, decade of protections on line
UNEP's chief describes the summit as an opportunity to 'secure our life-support system, to make peace with nature.'
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UNEP's chief describes the summit as an opportunity to 'secure our life-support system, to make peace with nature.'
Indigenous communities have long coped with climate uncertainties. Researchers suggest tapping that knowledge.
Reeling from pandemic setbacks, the world's largest disease-fighting fund sought money to work in more than 100 nations.
A UN report finds wildfires are burning longer and hotter, and will likely become more frequent in some areas.
Allowing mining companies to tap deep sea deposits beneath international waters poses too many underwater risks, a global environmental group reported.
Switzerland announced it has become the first government in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine using a standard process of regulatory approval.
Humans are trashing the planet so fast it would take 1.7 "Earths" to regenerate all the biological resources used up from 2011 to 2016, a U.N. treaty reported.
WADA said it will consider amending its rules to prevent the United States from jeopardizing the global anti-doping system.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon and NASA crew plunged into the Gulf of Mexico, completing the first manned orbit in a commercially built and operated spacecraft.
Governments and organizations pledged €6.9 billion in humanitarian aid for people displaced inside Syria and for refugees who fled to neighboring countries.
The United States announced it is withdrawing from a treaty that permits mutual unarmed surveillance flights over 34 nations.
Leaders of G-20 major economies promised to spend more than US$5 trillion to prop up the global economy and hasten recovery from the pandemic.
G-7 finance chiefs vowed to safeguard their economies from the coronavirus outbreak, but did not offer specifics about what they might be prepared to do.
L'Arche International, which supports people with learning disabilities, announced its late founder, Jean Vanier, sexually abused six women in France.
WHO said the coronavirus outbreak is a global health emergency, after the epidemic first detected in China spread to 7,800 cases and 170 deaths.
Japan strengthened inspections as part of efforts to improve regulation in the wake of the Fukushima Daichi accident.