UNICEF has revealed that more than 400 million children globally live in poverty, lacking at least two essential needs such as nutrition, sanitation, or healthcare. The warning comes as global funding cuts, conflicts, and climate crises threaten children’s access to critical services. The findings are detailed in UNICEF’s flagship report, The State of the World’s …
The absence of the U.S. highlights divisions COP30, the 30th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, opened on Monday in the Brazilian Amazon, Belém, with host leaders invoking indigenous concepts of collective action to push for urgent progress, even as the absence of senior U.S. …
Hurricane Melissa has unleashed catastrophic destruction across Jamaica, making landfall as a powerful Category 5 storm, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded, hit the island nation. Torrential floods swept through southwestern communities on Tuesday as winds reaching 185 mph (295 kph) tore roofs from buildings and sent boulders crashing onto major roads. Landslides, …
