In the past few months United Nations-sponsored negotiations to tackle climate change, plastic pollution, loss of global species and a growing number of deserts have either outright failed or come out with limited outcomes that didn’t address the scale of the problems.

It’s the killer detail in international climate talks: Consensus.

If another pandemic happens, the world will again be unprepared.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Thursday with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and prominent European figures who are forming a working group to address ecological damage from the 16-month-old Russian invasion.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists says the world is closer to Armageddon than it has ever been.

With an end-of-the-week deadline rushing at them faster than agreements are coming out of them, negotiators at the U.N. climate summit were in a difficult spot Wednesday.

A group of elder statesmen founded by Nelson Mandela says the United Nations needs to be more muscular and united if it wants to remain a central player in tackling the world’s multiple escalating crises.

Members of the group of prominent former world leaders founded by Nelson Mandela say the war in Ukraine can only end with a diplomatic solution that gives both sides something.

The former Irish President has called on African nations to pile on the pressure on rich, heavily-polluting countries to fulfill their climate pledges to the continent during a visit to Uganda.

Africa has contributed relatively little to the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions but has suffered some of the world’s heaviest impacts of climate change.

For many Iraqis, the name Colin Powell conjures up one image: the man who as U.S. secretary of State went before the U.N. Security Council in 2003 to make the case for war against their country.

South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu is marking his 90th birthday.

As South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu turns 90, recent racist graffiti on a portrait of the Nobel winner highlights the continuing relevance of his work for equality.

The interior ministry of the new Taliban government is seeking to end protests in Afghanistan after days of demonstrations that have brought heavy-handed assaults on protesters.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville City Council voted Tuesday night on the budget for fiscal year 2020, and JEA employee benefits and the possible sale of the utility generated a lengthy discussion, but the largest show of support in the chamber came from people asking to save adult arcades. The council voted in May to eliminate adult arcades in the city. Save our arcades!" "Most of all, we feel safe," said Mary Robinson, a supporter of adult arcades. You can't sleep and you get up and you just go and there are people there and you're OK."There was no vote during Tuesday night's public hearing, so the adult arcades will still close by Feb. 1.