
U.N. panel's major powers urged to seek accountability for aid attacks
Officials updated the 2024 death toll for humanitarian workers to 377 people across 20 countries, the worst year on record.
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Officials updated the 2024 death toll for humanitarian workers to 377 people across 20 countries, the worst year on record.
More than 275,000 glaciers cover 700,000 square kilometers of the planet. Glaciers and ice sheets store 70% of all freshwater.
The U.N. weather agency says some human-induced effects will be 'irreversible over hundreds if not thousands of years.'
Three days of talks in Rome ended with nations agreeing to support a $200 billion a year global plan to protect nature.
Scoop: The budget freeze is part of almost $700 million the U.N. refugee agency already received from the United States.
Scoop: UNHCR's directors scrambled to tighten its budget because of the Trump administration's 90-day aid stoppage.
Atomic scientists reset the Clock to the closest point to the symbolic hour of apocalpyse it has ever been since 1947.
His remarks were aimed at focusing attention on rising global temperatures and unregulated artificial intelligence.
Børge Brende, WEF's president, said there is "a greater level of global uncertainty than we have seen in a generation."
The U.N. weather agency says the Paris Agreement's long-term temperature goal is "not yet dead but in grave danger."
A new World Meteorological Organization system for data sharing aims to spread technology among developing nations.
The U.N. adopted by consensus the first international criminal justice treaty to have been negotiated in over 20 years.
People living in drylands doubled to 2.3 billion, more than a quarter of the world population, in the past three decades.
Fatou Bensouda says was undeterred by 'unacceptable thug-style tactics' opposing International Criminal Court probes.
Developing nations say the global deal falls short. U.N. chief Guterres says it 'provides a base on which to build.'
The U.N. says the war in Gaza is the single-biggest factor in the deaths of 281 humanitarian aid workers this year.