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Floods, drought and insecurity drive acute hunger for 7.5 million in Pakistan

At the top end, in the period from last December to March 2026 around 1.25 million people will be in ‘emergency’ levels of acute food insecurity, characterised by large food gaps...

‘No life without land’ says campaigning athlete at UN desertification meeting

Asmaa Niang, who is from Morocco, spoke to UN News at the UN Convention to Control Desertification (UNCCD) meeting known as COP16 and explained...

Over three million preventable deaths per year due to alcohol and drug use

Notably, the vast majority of these deaths were among men, with the highest prevalence in the 20-39 age group.The death rates were also highest...

Game-changing international marine protection treaty comes into force

Officially known as the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) Agreement, the legally binding UN treaty covers the ocean zones that lie beyond national waters (the...

UNHCR amplifies voices of displaced on frontlines of climate change

Actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Theo James kicked the campaign off at the COP29 Climate Conference in Baku, alongside a group of eight displaced...

World Cities Day calls for youth-led local change

These pressing issues necessitate urgent action and World Cities Day, celebrated on October 31, offers a platform to reflect on the unprecedented challenges that...

Guterres commends Turkmenistan’s ‘policy of neutrality’ amid troubled times

The Secretary-General expressed his appreciation to Turkmenistan for hosting the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia in Ashgabat, and commended Turkmenistan’s...

Drowning in debt: New forum in Sevilla offers borrowers chance to rebalance the books

The Borrowers’ Forum is being hailed as a milestone in efforts to reform the international debt architecture, supported by the UN and emerging as...

‘Cooperation is humanity’s greatest innovation,’ UN chief declares at BRICS summit

Speaking at the 17th BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he emphasised the human impact of environmental devastation and climate change.  And as...

Geography shouldn’t define destiny: UN summit on landlocked nations opens in Turkmenistan

Urging global leaders to rethink development for landlocked nations, the UN chief declared: “We gather today to reaffirm a fundamental truth: geography should never...

‘When finance flows, ambition grows”: COP30’s call for action

At every negotiation table and in every diplomatic statement lies a stark truth shared by nations on the front lines of the climate crisis:...

How climate change is threatening human rights

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk echoed this message in Geneva earlier this year and posed a question before the Human Rights...

Renewables rising, Part 1: How four countries are reshaping energy security

Why it matters: Some 20 per cent of the world’s gas and oil supplies pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway which...

WMO partnership to highlight damaging impact of climate change on winter sports

The two organizations are joining forces to call attention to the extensive impacts of increasing global temperatures on snow and ice while producing measures to...

Indirect disaster effects cost the world nearly $2 trillion per year, says UN Secretary-General...

Most of the exorbitant costs of disaster are preventable with proper funding and planning —one of the main messages for this year’s International Day...

From Haiti to Ethiopia: voices of climate displacement at COP30

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) is pressing negotiators to make climate mobility a core part of adaptation...

COP29: ‘You have every right to be angry’ Guterres tells youth advocates frustrated over...

“You have every right to be angry. I am angry too,” the UN chief posted on social media on Thursday following his meeting with...

One in four still lacks access to safe drinking water and sanitation

The report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and children’s agency (UNICEF) issued as World Water Week gets underway, highlights persistent gaps in access, with...

‘Climate crunch time is here,’ new UN report warns

In short, countries must start curbing emissions immediately, according to the UN Emissions Gap Report 2024.“Climate crunch time is here,” said UNEP Executive Director...

Oceans of opportunity squeezed dry by unsustainable use

In the run-up to the UN Ocean Conference 2025 in June, the UN trade and development agency, UNCTAD, emphasised that oceans are essential to all life, by...

What time is it on the Moon? It’s all relative…

Surely, you might think, we can just agree that one Earth time zone can be used for “Moon time”? Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), for...

Science180 Reveals Mathematical Proof of God’s Existence and a New Theory Explaining the Origins...

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). American scientist Dr Nathanael-Israel Israel has announced findings claiming that Earth formed 2.82 days after the universe began, the Moon 3.32...

It’s time to finance our future and ‘change course’, Guterres tells world leaders in...

António Guterres issued his clarion call noting that sustainable development powered by international cooperation, is now facing “massive headwinds.”Addressing the opening session of the...

Science180 Launches Shocking Non-Evolution, Non-Big Bang Scientific Theory of the Origins of the Universe,...

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). American scientist Dr. Nathanael-Israel Israel presents mathematical proof challenging the multibillion-year age of the cosmos by calculating the formation of Earth,...