Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (2nd R) meets with representatives from the National Committee on United States-China Relations, the U.S.-China Business Council and the United States Chamber of Commerce in New York, the United States, September 19, 2022.

Pakistan desperately needs help after more people died of water-borne diseases due to catastrophic floods that had submerged a third of the South Asian country.

Soil is easy to overlook as the dirt on our shoes, the realm of gardeners and farmers and nothing much to do with anyone else.

Economy Minister and Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck, visibly exhausted, appeared on public broadcasterZDF, where he was asked whether he feared a wave of insolvencies because of the rising energy prices.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres gave a grim assessment of global developments on Tuesday (20 September), painting a gloomy picture of an upcoming “winter of global discontent” from rising prices, a warming planet, and deadly conflicts.

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Attempts by EU legislators to qualify a wider array of biofuel feedstocks for the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) will push up emissions compared to the European Commission’s original proposal, a new study has found.

For Western and European officials, the challenge this week at the UN General Assembly will be to address Ukraine and their countries’ problems, while trying to counter the Russian narrative which finds some echo in developing countries.

The fossil fuel industry is “feasting” on billions in subsidies and windfall profits as “our planet burns,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday in his address to the General Assembly.

Dramatic floods that devastated the central Italian region of Marche at the weekend, killing 11 and with up to nine still missing, could have been at least partially avoided was it not for the inaccuracy of a weather-forecasting algorithm.