While the recession, stock-market fluctuations, job losses, stimulus packages to revive industry and efforts to pull the GDP growth back to 9 percent are making headlines, a crucial subtext stands ignored.

After 12 days of talks among delegates from 182 countries at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn which ended on June 12, the world seemed no closer to staving off the threat of global warming and its catastrophic consequences.

JAIPUR: A pilot project on Food for Human Development (FFHD), sponsored by the U.N. World Food Programme, has benefited hundreds of villagers in the tribal-dominated Banswara, Dungarpur and Pratapgarh districts in southern Rajasthan by way of distribution of 958 metric tonnes of food grain through service delivery centres.

UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday debated, in a full-session, on the impacts of climate change on full enjoyment of human rights, especially in vulnerable countries.

Sulabh International, the pioneer of sanitation sector in India, has been selected for this year

Pune Centre for Environment Education (CEE) in collaboration with steel maker Arcelor Mittal along with the Ministry of Environment and Forest and United Nations has organised a nationwide campaign titled- Kaun Banega Paryavaran Ka Ambassador (KBPKA) with a motive to generate environmental awareness in the country.

United Nations/Seoul: The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday swiftly condemned North Korea

Only a short time ago, African farmland seemed of little interest to outsiders. But last year's food crisis and water scarcity in many countries has changed foreigners' appetite with the result being that fertile soil in Africa is now sought by international investors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of hectares.

A dam-building spree in China poses the greatest threat to the future of the already beleaguered Mekong, one of the world's major rivers and a key source of water for the region, a U.N. report said Thursday.

GENEVA: United Nations chief N. Ban Ki-moon urged people to remain "vigilant and alert" y about Influenza A(H1N1) on Tuesday as the number of cases around the world shot up to almost 10,000.