India gets re-elected as observer to Arctic Council
China, South Korea, Singapore, Italy and Japan also have Observer status at the Council
Why this California town has declared ‘climate emergency’
Calls upon its residents to eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
All alien invasive species are guilty until proven innocent
The dogma that invasive alien species should be eradicated is now suspect
Afghanistan under Taliban: A decade’s progress eroded in a year, says UN
Cascading crises, almost 700,000 jobs vanished, finds report
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
Climate change could hit India, 58 other nations’ credit ratings
Countries ranking higher on sovereign ratings likely to face more severe downgrades
Science of controlling pandemics: Lessons for countries in tackling COVID-19
South Korea took immediate action, while Japan's measures were perplexing