Coronavirus compounds climate disasters but shows action can work - Red Cross
An example of the additional burden COVID-19 has put on those responding to disasters was the need for social distancing during evacuations caused by storms
Indonesian environment ministry to appeal air pollution verdict
Rapid urbanisation and chronic congestion in Jakarta - plus nearby coal-fired power plants - have contributed to the poor air quality, one of the worst in Southeast Asia
Far more finance needed for nature-rich nations to make global deal fly
Environmentalists say rich countries have a moral and economic responsibility to significantly increase funding as their higher consumption levels put greater stress on natural resources
Cameroonian migrants deported from UAE face conflict or exile
Rounded up in mass raids in Abu Dhabi, Cameroonian expatriate workers were deported home - only to face fighting and the prospect of exile
Northern Irish police charge two over killing of journalist Lyra McKee
Lyra McKee was a passionate campaigner for LGBT rights in Northern Ireland, penning a 2014 letter to her teenage self about being gay, which was adapted into a short film.
Glasgow climate summit at risk of failure, U.N. chief warns
The U.N. chief urges both China and the United States - the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases - to do their part
Colorado's Polis weds longtime partner in first same-sex marriage of U.S. governor
The marriage between Jared Polis, a Democrat, and first gentleman Marlon Reis, a writer and animal advocate, marks the first same-sex wedding of a sitting U.S. governor
Change rape definition, stop restricting media, Europe tells Poland
European institutions have criticised Poland for setbacks to women's sexual and reproductive health and rights, as well as discrimination of gays, suggesting that the EU withholds funds to Warsaw
Warming-hit nations get closer to creating U.N. climate rights envoy
As more countries are slammed by devastating floods, storms and wildfires, the push for an envoy to protect the climate-vulnerable is gaining backers
Chinese scammers enslave jobless teachers and tourists in Cambodia
Cambodia shut its borders when COVID-19 struck, giving rise to new wave of trafficking, with stranded foreign workers and tourists lured into working for fraudulent investment schemes