Biden's new climate orders to include pause on federal oil and gas leasing - sources
Roughly 25% of the nation's greenhouse gas emissions can be linked back to fossil fuels produced in federal lands and waters
Programmes tackling extreme poverty reach nearly 92 mln people
COVID-19 pandemic is expected to push more than 100 million more people into extreme poverty
Vaccine rollout a 'war against time' for Amazon indigenous groups
Most countries in the Amazon Basin do not have vaccine plans that specifically include indigenous people
Lives cut short: Domestic abuse victims honoured with unfinished portraits
British artist Holly Ringrose draws murdered women for one minute of each year they lived
Britain pins global cooperation hopes on shared climate fears
"I want to see the golden thread of climate action woven through every international event on the road to Glasgow," says UK official leading November's COP26 climate summit
Aid workers warn on COVID-19 in camps for Mozambique cyclone victims
Crowded centres for people left destitute by Cyclone Eloise in Mozambique are creating the perfect conditions for COVID-19 to spread
Grindr faces $11.7 mln fine in Norway for breach of data privacy
In some cases, sharing personal data can become a matter of physical safety if users are located and targeted in countries where homosexuality is illegal
Stop hoarding COVID vaccines, South Africa's Ramaphosa tells rich countries
Africa as a whole is struggling to secure sufficient vaccines to start countrywide inoculation programmes for its 1.3 billion people
New warning system in Bangladesh to tackle rising landslide risk
Landslide-vulnerable communities could get warnings five days in advance of predicted disasters as climate change brings more extreme rainfall
Covax has pledged $112 million for COVID-19 vaccines for Afghanistan
Afghanistan has registered a total of 54,854 infections, but experts say the numbers are underreported due to low testing and limited access to medical facilities in the war torn country