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As a young TV meteorologist fresh out of college, I was doing the normal circuit of school visits in Portland, Maine, when I was asked to speak to a group of young people about the latest findings in global warming. It was in the early ’90s and the science surrounding climate change was still somewhat uncertain. As I played a…

A report from the UN on climate change paints a dark picture for the future of our planet. The TEN looks at the details.

The United Nations’ report on climate change is dire. It says the planet’s temperature has already risen 2 degrees Fahrenheit, and the effects are obvious — wildfires, drought, severe storms and sea level rise. Dr. Sergey Paltsev of MIT called it “a very timely and very important report to remind us as humans that we’d better change our actions.” Paltsev…

Scientists with the United Nations issued a new report on climate change, and the findings are alarming.

Haiti’s political future is growing murkier after the surprise return of first lady Martine Moïse, who was released from a hospital in Miami where she was treated for injuries following an attack in which the president was assassinated

The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a declaration calling for urgent action to end AIDS by 2030, noting “with alarm” that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities and pushed access to AIDS medicines, treatments and diagnosis further off track

The U.N.’s premiere global body fighting for gender equality is calling for a sharp increase of women in global decision-making in a hotly debated final document that saw continuing pushback against women’s rights and a refusal to address issues of gender identity

The top U.N. official in Myanmar says its people have huge expectations from the United Nations and the international community following the Feb. 1 coup

A U.N. spokesman says the world body in North Korea has been left with no international staff, who are now working remotely

The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog says that Iran will begin offering its inspectors “less access” but will still allow the agency to monitor its atomic program.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who President-elect Joe Biden has nominated as U.S. ambassador the United Nations, said she has a message for diplomats around the world. “America is back,” Thomas-Greenfield said. “Multilateralism is back. Diplomacy is back.”

A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets has expired

In the wake of heat waves, global warming, forest fires, storms, droughts and a rising number of hurricanes, the U.N. weather agency is warning that the number of people who need international humanitarian help could rise 50% by 2030 compared to the 108 million who needed it in 2018

Nearly 40 mainly Western countries are criticizing China’s treatment of minority groups, especially in Xinjiang and Tibet, and expressing grave concern at the impact of its new national security law on human rights in Hong Kong.

In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week’s annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view

The United Nations says the world is getting hotter and is getting close to passing one of the limits set by global leaders five years ago

Structural racism in the U.S. is attracting the attention of the United Nations. Craig Mokhiber, the director of the NY Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, explains how the U.N. plays a role in defending human rights in the U.S.

U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft says she has shared a draft U.N. Security Council resolution with Russia that would extend the arms embargo against Iran indefinitely

China is going after the United States over more than $1 billion that the Trump administration owes the United Nations in unpaid dues for its regular operating budget and arrears for its separate budget for peacekeeping operations

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says there has been “a horrifying global surge in domestic violence” as fear of the coronavirus fas grown along with its social and economic consequences.