Warming behind floods

Studies prove greenhouse gases cause frequent intense rainfall

UN Environment Assembly: Livestock 'fart' is back in focus

An advance note of UNEP’s executive director lists meat consumption as an unmanageable threat to global warming  

34% of environmental indicators under SDGs lack standards

Lack of standards means there is no benchmark from which to calculate the Sustainable Development Goals

United States bans white asbestos, last of its kind still in use

Chrysotile asbestos used in chlor-alkali industry to make water treatment chemicals, chlorine bleach, caustic soda

Chandrayaan-3: Science on the political agenda

While science is always definitive, its use is a political decision

Heatwaves in Europe, North America ‘virtually impossible’ without anthropogenic emissions: WWA

The heat event in China was made 50 times more likely by human-induced climate change

Turkey-Syria earthquake: 78 aftershocks and the cataclysm continues

This is Turkey’s most powerful earthquake recorded since 1939

Gorgosaurus: Sotheby’s all set to auction T-Rex’s cousin

Get out, Bolsonaro: Amazonian activists protest Brazil leader’s meeting with Biden

Both leaders are meeting at the ongoing Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles

Investment in care services can generate 234 million jobs for women by 2035, says ILO

An annual investment of $5.4 trillion will be required to generate these jobs

Bumper production, reduced import duty may hurt lentil farmers

There was no immediate inflation pressure on pulses for import duty cut

COVID-19: A generation interrupted

Children born today might be the next development challenge for the world

COVID-19 added over $290 billion to the global cost of TB deaths: Study

South Asia incurred the highest losses due to TB deaths in 2020

Asia-Pacific may achieve just 10% targets of sustainable development goals: UN report

Only 9 / 104 targets achievable by 2030 at current pace: UN report

COVID-19: Medical experts, civil society slam Trump’s move to cut WHO funding

Whatever the UN body’s faults, now not the time for such an action, they say

Coronavirus update: 2nd death in India in west Delhi

Bolsonaro's test results awaited

Amid COVID-19 outbreak, India imports record LNG

The pandemic has led to a reduction in demand for crude globally

Are enough kits for coronavirus sampling available with NIV?

Global tally of cases crosses 6,000-mark, 132 dead

Typical US

Anyone but US is the problem

US govt data shows 62% of pregnant black women not vaccinated for flu, pertussis

Low trust levels among black adults for vaccines, doctors

A climate change: An unstoppable movement takes hold

The United Nations Secretary-General writes on the most pressing world issue

Simply put: Green Climate Fund

UN human rights unit faces financial crisis as 149 countries don’t pay dues

This has made six of the UN’s 10 treaty bodies cancel their sessions this year

Can glare be a roadblock in solar power expansion?

US authorities in Belmont have issued guidelines to manage solar glare

One in four children in conflict zones are out of school: report

South Sudan, Niger, Sudan and Afghanistan are worst affected