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What if the infrastructure needed to fight climate change could also help repair the land beneath it?
As heatwaves are turning deadlier, fires and disasters are razing cities — and rising seas are erasing territories — one environmental crisis remains dangerously overlooked: the degradation of the land…
In northern Kenya, a herder scans the sky for rain that hasn't come. The grass his animals need is thinning by the day.
Tribute to Dr David Nabarro
WHO regrets the United States’ notification of withdrawal from WHO – a decision that makes both the United States and the world less safe. The notification of withdrawal raises issues…
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, today concluded the first day of his two-day State visit to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, underscoring the strong…