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Oceans of opportunity squeezed dry by overfishing

The booming ocean economy sustains hundreds of millions of people, but it is being squeezed dry by overfishing, pollution, climate change and waste, UN...

Global biodiversity agreement lines up $200-b fund for nature

Governments last week reached agreement on a strategy to raise an additional $200 billion each year to better protect the world’s flora and fauna...

WMO sees brief La Niña occurrence

The weak but significant La Niña weather event that began in December is likely to be brief, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced last...

FAO: Farmers critical element of biodiversity

“Without the farmers, it is only political policy without implementation”―that was the stark message delivered by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s Director-General...

January hottest ever, says WMO

The world has just experienced the hottest January ever recorded, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, citing data crunched by UN partner the Copernicus...

Toxic air perils children’s lives

More than 100 children under the age of five die every day in East Asia and the Pacific due to air pollution, the UN...

At Davos, UN’s Guterres slams backsliding on climate commitments

The world’s political and business elite present in Davos on Wednesday faced an uncompromising address from UN chief António Guterres as he rounded on...

2025 declared as international year of glaciers

As glaciers disappear at an alarming rate due to climate change, the UN General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation...

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