On the last day of the global conference, the proposed language for a COP28 climate agreement that does not call for the phase-out of fossil fuels has come under heavy fire from influential figures, exposing deep divisions.   The United Arab Emirates' leadership of the climate summit...

Brazil has joined a potential agreement supported by the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and the European Union to treble the amount of renewable energy produced globally by 2030 and move away from coal use, the country's Foreign Ministry announced on Friday.   The largest nation in...

Ranked 14th in the world for gas consumption in 2022, with a growing dependence on imports, India plans to further increase its use of LNG. This appetite stems from both the economic development of the world's largest demographic power and from its far reaching ambitions with regards to the energy...

After the El Nino weather pattern erupted in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years on Tuesday, the World Meteorological Organisation predicted that temperatures will spike in many regions of the world.   El Nino, a rise in water surface temperatures in the eastern and...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's world price index climbed in April for the first time in a year, although it is still 20% lower than a record high set in March 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.   The Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) price index, which tracks...

According to Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the IMF, a comprehensive program of support for Ukraine is still several weeks away from being finalized.   This comes hours after the IMF announced on Friday that it had reached an agreement with Ukrainian authorities at the staff...

Greenhouse gas concentrations rose at above-average rates to new highs last year, according to the United Nations weather agency, which warned that time is running out for people to make the transformational changes required to limit global temperature rises.   The World Meteorological...

The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with U.S. equipment, vastly expanding its reach in its bid to slow Beijing's technological and military advances.  ...

A huge monkeypox outbreak has expanded to at least 20 nations, prompting some notable infectious disease experts to call for speedier action from global health authorities to contain it.   They argue that governments and the World Health Organization should not repeat the COVID-19 pandemic's...

The World Health Organization expects to find more instances of monkeypox when surveillance is expanded in places where the disease is uncommon.   According to the United Nations, 92 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported from 12 non-endemic member states as...

The first batch of Covid-19 vaccinations, developed by India's Biological E as part of the Quad group of countries' commitment to providing shots around the world, will be available in the first half of 2022, the grouping said in a statement on Friday.   Australia, Japan, India, and the...