GENEVA (AP) — Weather disasters are striking the world four to five times more often and causing seven times more...
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Extreme heat waves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. disarmament chief warned Tuesday that digital technologies are lowering barriers to malicious intrusions and...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The U.N. representative in Sri Lanka said the sinking of a container ship that caught...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) _ Sri Lanka’s government is seeking help from the United Nations and other countries in assessing...
CAIRO — The U.N. environment chief said Wednesday that “time is running out” to avert an environmental, economic and humanitarian...
Mining companies should be required to buy private insurance for tailings dams and their board of directors should be held...
Insurers and pension funds managing $2.3 trillion pledged on Monday to shift their portfolios away from carbon-heavy industries in the...
GENEVA — Warned that Typhoon Haiyan would slam into the coastal part of the Philippine town of Dulag in November...
PALO ALTO, California — Microsoft Corp recently rejected a California law enforcement agency’s request to install facial recognition technology in...