The petrochemical industry is obstructing a global treaty to reduce plastic pollution.

A top human rights official has stepped down, accusing the United Nations of failing in its duty.

While the U.S. sends tens of billions of dollars to Israel and Ukraine, countries in the global south are left pleading for pennies.

The time has passed for an event like the one happening this week in New York.

Weirdly, the White House doesn’t seem to see much of a contradiction in continuing to boost domestic oil and gas production while championing climate change.

The ICC has issued arrest warrants for the Russian leader as well as his children’s rights commissioner.

Businessman Gilbert Bigio is facing penalties for his alleged involvement with the violence that’s engulfed the country during Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s corrupt reign.

In just 72 hours, the United States reversed course on its long-standing opposition to establishing a fund for loss and damage.

Negotiators from the developing world are worried about 2024. But they also don’t expect much to change if Democrats prevail.

Many groups want to use next week’s COP27 conference in Sharm El Sheikh to highlight the country’s imprisonment of political dissidents. Others, including Greenpeace, are shying away from it.

Global hunger is rising amid war, inflation, and a pandemic—but it’s not because of a lack of food.

Examples of reparations paid throughout history show that making amends is much more feasible than rich countries today would have us believe.

Daniel Foote, the former special envoy to Haiti, has offered scorching criticism of plans to meddle in the ongoing democratic crisis that has gripped the nation.

The U.S. climate envoy seemed to come unglued this week when Farhana Yamin, a veteran environmental lawyer and climate negotiator, asked him about funding for nations recovering from climate catastrophe.

The Ukrainian president again urged the U.S. to implement a no-fly zone, and called for the creation of a new alternative to the United Nations that could intercede in conflicts.

Olaf Scholz, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and Joe Biden have chosen: They stand against thuggish authoritarianism. Will the world and the GOP join them?

As President Biden attended U.N. climate talks, Senator Joe Manchin held a press conference back home to resist proposed climate spending.

The comparisons to his predecessor are overblown, but the president’s U.N. speech highlighted some glaring gaps in his foreign policy.

Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?

How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection