United Nations
The 16-year-old activist delivers a fiery warning at the UN Climate Action Summit.
The teenage climate change activist is in New York to attend the UN climate summit in September.
The United Nations environmental body, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has released a report detailing how humans are accelerating climate change in the way we use land on this planet. While the problems are wide-spread and deeply-rooted, we look at how we can all make individual contributions in the fight against further damage.
World population could reach a peak of nearly 11 billion around the end of the century.
Philip Alston, a UN expert on extreme poverty and human rights, found one in five of the population now live in deprivation.
When retired naval officer Victor Vescovo made a record-breaking 10,928 m submarine dive to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, he probably wasn’t expecting to come across man-made litter...but he did. Just a few days after the United Nations has issued a damning report of the state of our planet, we take a look at other unlikely places where we’ve managed to leave a damaging trace.
Hours before she was due to be rescued in Rwanda, Florence Ngirumpatse was hacked to death with her husband and 16 others. But we still don't know why.
A reference referring to the need for UN bodies and donors to give timely “sexual and reproductive health” assistance to survivors of sexual violence in conflict was cut.
The penthouse boasts seven bedrooms, six bathrooms and panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline.
36-year-old from Devon was described as “a wonderful human being".