In a compelling visual produced by The World in Maps , the global population has been redrawn to reflect an entirely ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.

An FAO map suggests that arable land, suitable for major cash crops such as wheat, coffee, beans, cassava and plantain, will ...

One-third of the Earth's land surface is already degraded. The UN estimates that more than 2.6 billion people are harmed by ...

On June 25, 2025, during the Global Week Against Torture , OMCT and its partners will launch the Global Torture Index in an interactive event ...

Trump administration officials emphasized that the strikes were not intended to be the start of an all-out war with Iran, which vowed to defend itself. Pentagon officials said that the facilities ...

Protected areas such as national parks, nature reserves and Indigenous lands are the foundation of biodiversity conservation.

Dozens of coastal regions around the world, including Jakarta, Lagos and Tianjin are sinking at an alarming rate.

Infection-causing fungi responsible for millions of deaths a year will spread significantly to new regions as the planet heats up, new research predicts — and the world is not prepared.

Two years after the fiery death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the warlord behind Russia’s Wagner Group, the global shadow war waged by mercenaries and contractors still rages on. And now one of the most ...

The opinion is also being used to try to push countries to submit more ambitious nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the UN Framework ... “They have different priorities, different agendas.