U.N. proposes global 'roadmap' to 80% cut in plastic pollution by 2040
The estimated annual social and environmental costs of plastic pollution range from $300 billion to $1.5 trillion.
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The estimated annual social and environmental costs of plastic pollution range from $300 billion to $1.5 trillion.
The new technology accelerator from NATO quietly began taking shape a year before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Though the emergency phase is over, the World Health Organization's pandemic designation still holds.
The first-ever Swiss-led U.N. Security Council "open debate" mirrored GESDA's brand of anticipatory science and diplomacy as a 21st century solution.
There's a growing industry and more tools for producing and distributing disinformation. Meanwhile, authorities are getting more aggressive and hostile toward journalists.
A U.N. Security Council resolution calls on Afghanistan's de factor rulers to quickly restore the rights of women and girls.
Low rainfall and high evaporation rates 'would not have led to drought at all in a 1.2° C. cooler world,' scientists concluded.
The NATO chief emphasized the need to negotiate new arms control arrangements, despite broad geopolitical worries.
The Group of Seven's nonproliferation directors expressed alarm that Russia, China and North Korea have all been pushing to expand their nuclear-armed capabilities.
Diplomats from other nations objected to the Russian-led U.N. Security Council session as an exercise in disinformation.
Russia's status as president of the U.N. Security Council is bound up in a frozen-in-time power structure dating to the end of World War II.
The number of nuclear warheads available to nations for deployment reached 9,576 at the start of 2023, up from 9,440 a year earlier.
The European Court of Human Rights heard two climate cases brought by citizens against Swiss and French authorities.
It is a fight that spans the continent and entangles international organizations, border security and others.
The border crossing allows the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to provide food, medicine and other basic items to the 4.1 million mainly displaced inhabitants of Syria's northwest Idlib province.
Journalists, lawyers, activists, fact checkers, regulators and others have been using a new tool to fight disinformation.