The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focus on prosperity, people, planet, peace, and partnership. Research shows: It’s possible to achieve them, but there is no easy way.

A new Unicef report points to three-fold increase in number of schools closed in the region in two years due to intensifying conflicts and violence.

Members of Brazil’s Mura indigenous tribe painted their bodies with orange-red paint and took up long bows and clubs as they headed into the jungle this week, prepared for battle. Their enemy? The deforestation and destruction of their home, the Amazon rainforest.

For the first time, the central banks are openly discussing a reform of the global monetary system and the introduction of a “synthetic world currency” instead of the dollar.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday the army may be enlisted to help combat fires sweeping through the Amazon rainforest, as international condemnation and calls for tough action to quell the unfolding crisis continued to mount.

Hong Kong braced for an anti-government protest “stress test” of the airport this weekend, as weeks of sometimes violent demonstrations in the Chinese-ruled city showed no signs of let-up amid rising tension between China and some Western nations.

The Brazilian government lacks the resources to fight a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) calls for more research into microplastics and a crackdown on plastic pollution.

Canadian esearchers have discovered a climate-friendly way of extracting hydrogen from oil. They are presenting this work at the Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference in Barcelona.

A major bank warned on Wednesday that weeks of protests in Hong Kong could hit the economies of the Chinese-ruled city and mainland China itself as demonstrators began to gather for a sit-in at the subway site of a mid-summer mob attack.