It was a year characterized by extreme drought. From North America to Africa to Europe to Asia, huge swaths of the planet were parched in 2022. Lakes and rivers in several countries shrank to extreme ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of World Environment Day! Held annually since 1973, World Environment Day is the United Nations' principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action ...

I was a junior in high school when the first World Environment Day (WED) was celebrated in 1972. Marked annually on June 5, it was established by the United Nations General Assembly and over the past ...

GENEVA, June 5 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency marked World Environment Day with an exhibition in its Geneva headquarters of some of the eco-friendly programmes and policies it promotes in operations ...

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, June 5 (UNHCR) - Tender new seedlings are taking root today in and around all 14 refugee camps in Tanzania, as the UN refugee agency once again joins the UN Environment ...

Each year, the World Environment Day focuses on a specific theme, highlighting a pressing environmental concern. And the theme for 2023 is – Solutions to Plastic Pollution. This theme highlights the ...

June 5 - The second round of global plastics treaty negotiations began in Paris with resistance last week, as divisions over procedure rules frustratingly slowed progress towards substantive ...

Airbus is working with the National Geographic Society and the UNEP Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to launch a world-reaching biodiversity communication campaign, 'See the ...