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UN: climate change costs to poor underestimated

By Karl Ritter | December 7, 2014 - 2:11am

The cost to poor countries of adjusting to ever-hotter temperatures will be two or even three times higher than previously thought, the UN's environment agency said Friday — and that assumes a best-case scenario...

World

UN: World not close to avoiding dangerous global warming

By Seth Borenstein | November 20, 2014 - 9:18am

The world still isn't close to preventing what leaders call a dangerous level of man-made warming, a new United Nations report says. That's despite some nations' recent pledges to cut back on carbon dioxide emi...

World

UN panel adopts landmark climate report

By Karl Ritter | November 2, 2014 - 7:18am

The United Nations' expert panel on climate science on yesterday finished a report on global warming that the UN's environment agency said offers "conclusive evidence" that humans are altering the Earth's climate...

World

Environmental crime wave costs world billions

By Jason Straziuso | November 7, 2013 - 6:04am

The illegal cutting of timber and the poaching of elephants and rhinos are part of a "rapidly escalating environmental crime wave" that international governments must combat by increasing cooperation, police and...

World

UN sees mercury use phase-out within 3 decades

By John Heilprin | October 18, 2013 - 7:34am

A new global treaty could eliminate within three decades the commercial use of mercury in everything from batteries, paints...

World

Thailand's prime minister vows to end ivory trade

March 4, 2013 - 6:19am

Facing the possibility of sanctions, Thailand's prime minister vowed for the first time yesterday to work toward ending her country's trade in ivory.

UN calls for clampdown on illegal wildlife trade

March 3, 2013 - 9:03pm

The world must clamp down hard on the illegal global wildlife trade, the head of the United Nations environment agency warned Sunday, calling it a

World

More than 140 nations adopt treaty to cut mercury

January 20, 2013 - 7:14am

A new and legally binding international treaty to reduce harmful emissions of mercury was adopted yesterday by more than 140 nations, capping four years of difficult negotiations but stopping short of some of the...

Urban biodiversity benefits human health and the environment

October 21, 2012 - 12:00am

Global urbanization will have significant implications for biodiversity and ecosystems if current trends continue, with knock-on effects for human health and development, according to a new assessment by the United...

Agriculture

Xinhua, UN institutions launch global media campaign on environment protection

April 22, 2012 - 1:00pm

A global media campaign aimed at alerting the public across the world to the need for environment protection was launched here Sunday.