The world has moved beyond a water crisis and into a state of global water bankruptcy, says a new flagship report released on ...

(Narinder NANU/AFP/AFP) National commitments to slash heat-trapping pollution would limit global warming up to 2.5C this century -- nowhere near enough to avoid devastating climate impacts despite a ...

The UN has warned that terms like "water crisis" no longer cut it, and that we are now in a post-crisis era.

Pakistan’s position was explained by Pakistan’s acting Permanent Representative to the UN while addressing the Global Water Bankruptcy Roundtable organised by the same institution as issued the report ...

The planet’s water reserves are overstretched and polluted, pushing the warming world into a dangerous condition of “water bankruptcy,” argues a new UN University report. This is not an alarm bell for ...

A new United Nations report finds that global plans to fight climate change will barely reduce future warming and says that the United States' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement counteracts much of ...

A United Nations report revealed on Friday that nearly 80 percent of the world’s poorest populations—approximately 887 million people—reside in regions exposed to extreme heat, flooding, and other ...

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reviews the most recent studies of retreating ice, rising seas and warming temperatures, and reports on supercomputer simulations of what might ...