UN calls climate change a ‘threat multiplier’
The UN Security Council held a debate last week to discuss the impact of climate change and global warming on peace and security. The UN Security Council – the UN’s peace and security body...
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Latin America launches roadmap to save declining jaguar populations
As jaguar populations decline due to illegal poaching, loss of habitat and human conflict, leading conservation organizations are joining forces with key jaguar range states to launch a roadmap to protect the troubled species....
Climate change driving world hunger, new UN report says
After steadily declining for over a decade, world hunger is again on the rise. 815 million people were affected in 2016, or 11 per cent of the world’s population, finds a new UN report....
Urbanization is robbing the planet of sand
Sand is the most important material for the construction industry. Supplies are massive, but finite. Already today many coastlines and waterways are suffering from overexploitation at the hands of sand miners. But for now...
1 in 4 children to face water shortages by 2040
Nearly 600 million children around the world will live in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040, warns UNICEF in a new report. The poorest children will be affected most as climate change...
Pollution as deadly as cancer, warns new UN environment chief
Around seven million people worldwide are dying from pollution – roughly the same number of people dying from cancer, says Erik Solheim, the new head of the UN’s environment agency. Pollution, wars, conflicts, and...
Climate change is destabilising Nigeria
Climate change is gradually forcing nomadic Fulani shepherds further into southern Nigeria as they search for new pastures. Deadly clashes with local farmers are destabilising the country. Anne Gonschorek reports from Cape Town. It...
Food prices decline for third straight month
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that global food prices have declined largely as a result of a drop in cereal and vegetable oil prices. But conflicts and adverse weather continue to...
Climate change leads to instability, unrest
UN climate experts who met in Yokohama, Japan last week have released the latest status report on the consequences of climate change. Global warming will affect each and every continent and result in more...
IPCC: Nobody can escape climate change
The latest IPCC report is unequivocal: The effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the oceans, and the world is mostly ill-prepared for the risks from a changing climate....
