UN talks aimed at halting the degradation and desertification of vast swathes of land start in Saudi Arabia on Monday after scientists fired a stark warning over unsustainable farming and deforestation.
Norway has suspended plans to start giving licenses for deep-sea mining next year that had faced opposition from environment groups and international institutions, a party allied with the center-left government said
Divisions between countries have stalled negotiations on the world’s first treaty to tackle plastic pollution, after a terse week of talks in South Korea’s Busan.
The United Nations’ top court will start unprecedented hearings on Monday aimed at setting legal guidelines for how countries should protect the planet against climate change and help vulnerable nations combat
Crunch UN talks on ways to “halt and reverse” species loss by 2030 have made “very good progress,” officials said Friday, as the summit in Colombia marked its halfway point.
The Arctic is warming at three to four times the global average. However, new research suggests the slowing of a key ocean current could reduce projected Arctic warming by up to