With coral reefs under mounting stress, citizen science can lead to better decisions on protection and restoration ...

Isotopic analysis can reveal the age of groundwater and help determine the time needed for aquifer recharge based on how much is being pumped for human activities. Source: Adriana Vargas/IAEA ...

One in five people could live in dangerously hot conditions by the end of the century if global warming continues at its ...

The UN Water Conference comes at the midway point of the UN Water Action Decade, a global effort to head off a looming water crisis that could see a 40 per cent shortfall in global freshwater ...

The world must halve single-use plastics and slash throwaway consumption to stem the tide of environmental pollution, ...

On Monday, a United Nations committee began a monumental meeting in Paris with the goal of ending plastic pollution globally.

And never has the divide between the global negotiations and the demands of society been ... negotiators have so far failed to agree how to use carbon markets and trade emissions credits. The COP26 ...

An El Niño climate pattern will likely develop later this year, an event that could exacerbate global warming and break ... the El Niño's warm water can fuel hurricanes in the central and ...

Thousands of Sudanese are crossing borders into countries already severely stressed by drought, conflicts and food insecurity, UN says The UN is in a race against time to get food supplies to ...

WHO has recommended against ... The use of non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) does not result in any long-term reduction in body fat, the World Health Organization said on Monday, with the UN health ...

Decades of unsustainable agriculture have depleted soils worldwide and accelerated both global warming and species loss, according to the United Nations (UN) official spearheading efforts to ...