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Even though the 1.5°C threshold has been exceeded temporarily, continued warming could make such events more frequent and severe, intensifying impacts on biodiversity, human health, and food security.

Climate talks at COP29 in Baku on Wednesday turned to the pressing issue of how to manage the demand for minerals essential to producing electric vehicles and solar panels without triggering a “stampede of greed” that exploits local communities and crushes the poor. 

The UN has called for urgent global cooperation to tackle the escalating climate crisis. The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that the world...

Secretary-General António Guterres urged delegations from some 190 countries to “make peace with nature” and shore up a plan to stop habitat loss, save endangered species,...

The ‘No Time to Waste’ was launched in 2022 to respond to the global food and nutrition crisis. Since then, UNICEF has raised over...

The Global Family Farming Forum not only serves as a call to action but also as a reminder of the critical role that family...

Despite being the closest inhabited island to the epicentre of the earthquake in December 2004 that caused the largest tsunami so far in this...

The surge in extreme hydrological events has been influenced by naturally occurring climate conditions including the transition from La Niña to El Niño weather...