John Vidal
Air pollution has become the world's single biggest environmental health risk, linked to around 7 million – or nearly one in eight deaths in 2012 –
MoneyMorning.com.au
The most disruptive technological force on the planet is happening quietly and relatively unseen by most of us.
When you plug your cellphone charger into a wall socket, you are probably connecting to one of about 500 coal-fired power plants in the United States.
Michael Renner
The approved budget for United Nations peacekeeping operations from July 2013 to June 2014 runs to $7.83 billion—$390 million higher than in the previous year.1 (See Figure 1.) This is the third-highest budget since the record $8.26 billion spent in 2009–10.2 Despite some relatively minor fluctua
Matt McGrath
A long-awaited UN report on how to curb climate change says the world must rapidly move away from carbon-intensive fuels.
There must be a "massive shift" to renewable energy, says the study released in Berlin.
Michael Renner
According to preliminary estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), total global fish production was expected to reach an all-time high of 160 million tons in 2013, up from 157.9 million tons in 2012. This figure includes a projected wild capture of 90 million
Sarah Boseley
Antiotics are losing their power to fight infections in every country in the world, according to new data from the World Health Organisation – a situa
LENNY BERNSTEIN
You were going to say humans, right? All those guns, bombs, chemicals and G0d-knows-what-else we use to kill each other.
Nairobi - The dumping of plastic waste into the world's oceans is causing at least $13bn a year of damage, threatening marine life, tourism and fisheries, the United Nations warned on Monday at the launch of a global environment conference.
Lean Alfred Santos
Being poor is more than just the amount of money a person has.