Without urgent action, climate change could be linked to one in every ten cases of intimate partner violence by the end of the century.That is the warning from a new report by the UN Spotlight ...

Europe has been named the fastest-warming continent in the world in a UN-led annual report.

Amid deepening inequalities and escalating crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, a new United ...

Asia’s sprawling megacities – which are driving economic growth – face an uncertain future as rising temperatures, aging ...

But scientists caution that strategies such as geoengineering and carbon offsets aren’t a substitute for reducing emissions.

THE United Nations on Monday warned that many cities in Asia-Pacific are unprepared for climate shocks, social inequality and ...

Smoking once symbolized status. Then science and health campaigns changed minds. UN experts say the same deep shift in ...

April 15 is traditionally when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publishes its Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

In nearly 30 years, the United States has never failed to send the United Nations its data on planet-warming pollution. This ...