With only a few thousand tigers remaining in the wild, mainly in Asia, the UN is reiterating its call for zero tolerance for wildlife crime as part of its 2016 Wild for Life campaign.
Many African elephants continued to face serious threats to their survival in 2015 from the illegal trade in ivory and unacceptably high levels of poaching.
Warning of a possible rise in heatwave deaths due to climate change, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction called for measures to reduce mortality from this natural hazard.
Love 1980’s pop music and the Sustainable Development Goals? The United Nations Information Centre in Tokyo (UNIC Tokyo) is raising awareness of the SDGs with a new music video featuring more than 100 Japanese celebrities dancing along to 80’s idol Yu Hayami’s “Boogie Oogie Love Train” while holding the 17 colourful SDG icons.
The music video premiered on […]
Mangroves are rare and vital ecosystems that help to protect coastlines but their survival is being jeopardized, said UNESCO, calling for mangroves' protection.
The World Meteorological Organization will set up a committee to examine whether a 54 degrees Celsius temperature recently recorded in Kuwait has set a record for the Eastern hemisphere.
As the 21st International AIDS Conference wrapped up, a UN official called for ending discrimination against patients, especially those from the most vulnerable populations.
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) wrapped with agreement on a 4-year framework, largely focused on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Global temperatures for the first six months of this year reached new highs, setting 2016 on track to be the hottest-ever on record, the United Nations weather agency said.
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