Global Issues
News headlines for “Environmental Issues”, page 51
47 million health workers and advocates call for cleaner air to curb pollution deaths
- UN News
Over 50 countries, cities, and organizations pledged new commitments on Thursday to tackle air pollution, protect public health, and help halve its deadly impacts by 2040 – a goal backed by a petition from 47 million health professionals, patients and advocates demanding clean air be made a public health priority.
UN teams ramp up response to deadly quake in Myanmar and Thailand
- UN News
Amid reports of hundreds dead or missing following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake with its epicentre in central Myanmar, UN teams in the region are “responding fast”, said UN relief chief Tom Fletcher on Friday.
Extreme weather impacts cascading ‘from the Andes to the Amazon’
- UN News
Extreme weather and climate impacts had a damaging toll on Latin America and the Caribbean last year, resulting in dying glaciers, record-breaking hurricanes, debilitating drought and deadly floods, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a new report on Friday.
Bangladesh's Ethnic People Safeguarding Forests and Wildlife
- Inter Press Service
RANGAMATI, Bangladesh, Mar 27 (IPS) - Kishore Kumar Chakma, a young man from an ethnic community in Rangamati district, voluntarily guards a village common forest (VCF) so that none can hunt wild animals and fell trees from it.
Fast fashion fuelling global waste crisis, UN chief warns
- UN News
Fast fashion is accelerating an environmental catastrophe, with the equivalent of one garbage truck’s worth of clothing either incinerated or sent to landfill every second, the UN chief warned on Thursday.
‘Renewables are renewing economies’, UN chief tells top climate forum
- UN News
Ministers from 40 countries met on Wednesday at the first major climate forum of 2025 to discuss progress in renewable energy generation and the rising toll of inaction over rising temperatures.
Can renewable energy survive climate change?
- UN News
As droughts reduce hydropower and clouds dim solar output around the world, experts say meteorology and climate science must be at the heart of the energy transition.
Royalties, a New Indigenous Right for Hydroelectric Damages in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 25 (IPS) - Indigenous peoples in Brazil have won a new right: a share in the profits of hydroelectric plants that cause them harm when built on or near their lands.
Strengthening Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ Knowledge and Access Opens up Opportunities for Climate, Biodiversity and Desertification Action
- Inter Press Service
RICHMOND HILL, Ontario, Canada, Mar 25 (IPS) - The central role Indigenous Peoples and local communities in addressing climate change, biodiversity loss and desertification has gained widespread recognition over the past decade. Indigenous Peoples’ close dependence on resources and ecosystems, exceptional tradition, and ancestral knowledge are invaluable assets for the sustainable management of our planet’s natural resources.
The Ocean Creeps In: Tanzanian Coastal Communities Fight a Losing Battle
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Mar 25 (IPS) - What started with a ‘salty’ cup of tea ended with one couple losing their home to climate-change-induced rising sea levels. Solutions, like sea walls, restoration of mangroves, and water management, are too slow to stop the ruin of once-thriving coastal communities.The first time Jumanne Waziri tasted salt in his morning tea, he thought his wife had made a mistake.
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