Economic losses from disasters since 2000 are in the range of $2.5 trillion, a figure at least 50 percent higher than previous international estimates, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday. The U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction warned in …
The U.N.’s heath agency says that more than 270,000 pedestrians are killed on roads each year and called for better traffic safety. The World Health Organization says pedestrian casualties account for 22 percent of the total 1.24 million annual road …
The two U.N. agencies for health and weather services have created a new “atlas” of scientific data that they say offers fresh evidence of the links between climate change to outbreaks of meningitis, malaria and other diseases. The World Health …
More than 180 countries agreed on an agenda for work on a new climate treaty by 2015 at United Nations climate talks on Friday, breaking a week-long deadlock over procedure. “(The work plan) was not an easy issue to agree …