The world needs to better manage its freshwater resources but thirsty new technologies touted as solutions could lead to “serious problems” if left unchecked, a UN report warned. Roughly half ...
Climate change and poor planning are causing major water scarcity crises in multiple cities and regions around the world, and the United Nations is warning that tensions over water are worsening ...
David Boyd, the United Nations (UN) envoy for human rights and the environment ... Boyd also denounced the water shortages suffered by many rural residents and the deadly air pollution that ...
The U.S. wants the U.N. to bolster existing international bodies already on the front lines of safeguarding artificial ...
Paritosh Kasotia is an International Program Manager at the Iowa Council for International Understanding. She is also President of the United Nations Association-Des Moines Chapter. The ...
The ILO estimates that over 2.4 billion workers — more than 70% of the global workforce — are likely ... such as malaria and water insecurity, will claim a quarter of a million additional ...
Antonio Guterres says war is being waged on the Sudanese people, warns of escalating unrest in el-Fasher, Darfur.
Concurrently, global carbon dioxide emissions surged by 1.1%. If emissions continue at their current rate, Stiell said it "will further entrench the gross inequalities between the world's richest ...
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for “urgent de-escalation” of hostilities in a phone conversation with ...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned ... “After repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the Resistance Front fighters, the Zionist regime has put blind ...
Britain's Thames Water said on Monday it would spend an extra 1.1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) on tackling sewage spills and ...
The UN labour organization warned Monday that over ... The ILO estimates that over 2.4 billion workers -- more than 70% of the global workforce -- are likely to face excessive heat as part of ...