Wednesday June 5 is World Environment Day and this year is the event’s 51st anniversary.Celebrations kicked off in host ...

The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro was memorable for its landmark agreements to guide sustainable development worldwide. The first principle ... The upcoming United Nations Conference on ...

Adventurers Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay stand atop the world as the first climbers to reach the summit. Read more.

Acclaimed actor and two-time Academy Award nominee Edward Norton is the first Goodwill ... The 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the Rio Earth Summit) led to the ...

But, first, a little background ... off massive initiatives to recycle and paved the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Earth Day celebrations were joined by The ...

Diplomats meet every June in Bonn to try and advance the stickiest points in climate negotiations so that political leaders ...

South African President Thabo Mbeki today welcomed world leaders to the Earth Summit in Johannesburg ... clinch a deal overnight on a sweeping United Nations programme to ease poverty and clean ...

The data show that the world is in trouble, United Nations Secretary General ... Study of sea sponges lead scientists to ...

DUBAI— The United Nations climate summit ended in Dubai today with the first ever commitment to transition away ... but not in the practical fight for survival of life on Earth.” Low-lying nations and ...

After nine days of UN-mediated negotiations in Nairobi related to finance, high tech biology, Indigenous Peoples’ engagement ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa --An agreement to protect diminishing fish stocks has been reached at the Earth Summit negotiations ... According to the United Nations, more than 70 percent of the ...