New York, Feb 19 (JEN): The water, sanitation and sustainable energy crises are the among the world’s pre-eminent development challenges, senior United Nations officials warned on Tuesday ...

New York, Feb 18 (JEN): Field schools that train farmers in alternative methods of pest control have succeeded in nearly eliminating the use of toxic pesticides by a community of cotton grow ...

New York, Feb 12 (JEN): Over the next two and a half years, the United Nations food agency will provide technical assistance to Belarus in managing its stocks of obsolete pesticides, it was ...

New York, Feb 5 (JEN): Plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) recently released new evidence that demonstrates the chemical company’s direct role in designing ...

New York, Feb 5 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Minister of State and Special Envoy for Energy and Climate Change, of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dr. Sultan Al Ja ...

New York, Feb 1 (JEN): United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday announced the appointment of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as Special Envoy for Cities and Climat ...

New York, Jan 31 (JEN): Seeking to ensure that the world can feed a fast growing population, expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050, the United Nations on Thursday published voluntary internat ...

New York, Jan 31 (JEN): Global warming is unequivocal, human influence has been the dominant cause since the mid-20th century, and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, already at ...

New York, Jan 30 (JEN): A senior United Nations official Wednesday stressed that agriculture is the engine of growth needed to eradicate hunger and boost food production in Africa, ahead of ...