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Africans bear the brunt of biodiversity loss

For millions across Africa and the developing world, the biodiversity crisis ...

Strengthening El Niño to push 49 million more people...

Nearly 50 million more people in highly vulnerable communities globally are s...

The Mediterranean’s own odyssey: An ecological treas...

More than 2,500 years after Homer’s epic was first told, Christopher Nolan's ...

Food prices edged up in July amid heatwaves and ener...

The cost of key foods edged up last month as searing heatwaves and ongoing ge...

UN offers support to Colombia after magnitude 7.4 ea...

The UN offered its support to Colombia on Monday after a magnitude 7.4 earthq...

World marks second warmest July on record

As multiple regions contend with unbearable heat, drought, wildfires and othe...

Colombia earthquake: UN joins national response

As earthquake rescue efforts across western Colombia continued on Tuesday, UN...

Youth advocates gather in New York to launch new AI ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly transforms everything from how we lea...

For Brazil’s Indigenous youth, visibility is resistance

As climate change reshapes Indigenous territories across Brazil, a new genera...

UN calls for urgent action to protect children from ...

More than eight in 10 young people aged 15 to 24 worldwide are now online, an...

Sudan: ‘It made me dream again’: The students refusi...

Sarah Tekhlu was ready to give up on university. An Eritrean refugee, she had...

‘Sudan is losing another generation’ to war, Mohamme...

More than 1,000 days of war in Sudan have left millions of children out of sc...

‘I am somebody’: Street-smart youth take their decla...

When Samantha Richards and Angela Hifume walked into the Hall of Flags at Uni...

Conflict and crisis put six World Heritage sites at ...

Armed conflict, insecurity and environmental pressures are threatening ancien...

Mount Olympus and D-Day beaches among new World Heri...

From the peaks of Mount Olympus in Greece to the shores of the “D-Day” beache...

Wildfires surge across Europe as Spain and France ba...

The amount of land burned by wildfires across Europe has increased by 57 per ...

Wildfire smoke poses hidden health threat

Wildfires are often associated with the destruction they leave behind, but th...

Strong El Niño ahead, UN weather agency warns

As much of the world faces grapples with above normal temperatures and major ...

Wildfires: Prevention is the best defence, UN says

The wildfires burning across Europe and North America highlight the urgent ne...

The climate pattern putting millions at risk: El Niñ...

El Niño is putting millions of lives at risk in eastern and southern Africa b...