UN report urges environmental response
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The international community must respond more quickly to climate change, species extinction, dwindling supplies of fresh water and other threats to the planet, the U.N. Environment Program warned Thursday.
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The UN launches a global initiative to tackle the growing mountain of electrical and electronic waste.
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The U.N. General Assembly urged nations Wednesday to consider temporary bans on high seas bottom trawling, disappointing scientists and some countries seeking an immediate halt to the destructive fishing practice.
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PARIS - Forty-six nations called for the creation of a more powerful U.N. environment agency on Saturday, saying the survival of humanity was at risk, but the United ...Comment
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The human population is living far beyond its means and inflicting damage to the environment that could pass points of no return, according to a major report from the U.N.
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The government has welcomed a UN report on global warming as highlighting the real threat posed by climate change, and warned of a &quot;closing window of opportunity&quot; for taking action.
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The UN emergency relief agency is struggling to respond to a natural disaster that has brought death and destruction to at least eight countries.
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Desertification represents one of the "greatest environmental challenge of our times" and could set off mass migrations of people fleeing degraded homelands, a United Nations report warned Thursday.
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A sweeping new global report, released by the World Health Organization today in New York City, urges governments to get tough on the tobacco epidemic before it's too late
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday that a new Bosnian Serb report on the 1995 massacre against Bosnian Muslims in the city of Srebrenica should lead to action against the perpetrators.
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Desertification represents the "greatest environmental challenge of our times", the UN warns in a report.
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SEOUL The forests in North Korea are depleted, its rivers and streams are filled with runoff from factories and the country&#39;s reliance on coal energy has created severe urban air pollution, the United Nations said on Friday in its first report on the
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A U.N. report delivers the most comprehensive picture yet on global warming  -  and says that human activity is "very likely" the culprit
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Humanity's reliance on fossil fuels, the spread of cities, the destruction of natural habitats for farmland and over-exploitation of the oceans are destroying Earth's ability to sustain life, the environmental group WWF warned in a new report Thursday.
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The United Nations yesterday set aside $1 million to assess environmental damage caused by this week's devastating tsunami, as reports of destroyed coral reefs and uprooted mangrove forests began trickling in.
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Natural disasters are affecting more and more people, the UN says ahead of a conference on reducing the risks.
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The United Nations' nuclear watchdog prepares a report that could trigger further UN sanctions