Human Rights & Public Liberties

Human Rights & Public Liberties

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Published on: 13 Jan, 2021

Climate & Environment

Canadian wildfires

Northern Quebec’s largest town was being evacuated on Tuesday as firefighters worked to beat back threats from out-of-control blazes in remote communities in the northern ..

Published on: 8 June, 2023

The weather in South Asia is becoming intolerable

Just weeks ago, people faced extreme heat – Intense heat in northern parts of Bangladesh has reduced tea yield and farmers are concerned that with ..

Published on: 5 June, 2023

Paris plastics industry negotiations

One approach is to reduce and ban specific high-risk plastics, identified through research, which lasts for far longer in the environment than their initial use ..

Published on: 29 May, 2023

Philippines’s oil tanker spill

The MT Princess Empress was carrying 800,000 liters of industrial fuel oil when it sank on February 28th  off the central island of Mindoro, south ..

Published on: 28 May, 2023

WMO report

On Monday, the WMO reports the rising costs of weather-related events, reporting that 2 million people (deaths) and $4.3t have been lost since 1970 due ..

Published on: 22 May, 2023

Italy floods

Local mayors warned that some remote villages were still completely cut off because landslides had made roads impassable and phone service remained severed.

Published on: 21 May, 2023

A heat wave has across much of Asia

The Met department in Thailand has said searing heat continues in the northern parts of the country with storms most likely in central, eastern, and ..

Published on: 8 May, 2023

U.S. rivers

Among the most endangered and considered the most polluted in the U.S. is the 1579km / 981-mile Ohio River.

Published on: 18 April, 2023

US storms

The town of Wynne in northeastern Arkansas was also devastated, and officials reported two dead there, along with destroyed homes and people trapped in the ..

Published on: 2 April, 2023

UN 2023 Water Conference

Water use has been increasing globally by roughly 1% per year over the last 40 years and is expected to grow at a similar rate ..

Published on: 23 March, 2023