New York, Dec 5 (JEN): A team from the United Nations nuclear watchdog Wednesday praised Japan for its efforts to decommission the damaged Fukushima power station, while noting that several ...

New York, Nov 23 (JEN): The United Nations-backed International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea Friday ordered that Russia release the Greenpeace ship and its crew that it seized in Septembe ...

New York, Nov 22 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took his campaign to galvanise an urgent global response to climate change to the world’s cities Thursday , stressing t ...

New York, Nov 21 (JEN): The top United Nations official Wednesday called on foreign ministers to prioritize the environment in domestic politics and contribute to climate financing as a way ...

New York, Nov 20 (JEN): As diplomats and environment experts continue to work towards a global climate agreement in Poland, a United Nations-business forum is trying for the first time to un ...

New York, Nov 20 (JEN): With its first official observance of World Toilet Day, the United Nations Tuesday called on the international community to help break taboos around toilets, which ar ...

New York, Nov 20 (JEN): The world need look no further than the catastrophe in the Philippines to comprehend the profound and dangerous consequences of a warming planet, United Nations Secre ...

New York, Nov 19 (JEN): Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the Philippines a week ago, is a wake-up call for the international community to speed up efforts to fight climate change, United Nat ...

New York, Nov 19 (JEN): The coal industry must radically transform and diversify to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, a senior United Nations official said Monday at a meeting in Po ...