'Resilient recovery': Cities link pandemic, climate adaptation responses
1000 Cities Adapt Now initiative will focus on tackling water issues - from stormwater to drought – and using natural systems to protect urban areas from climate change impacts
Thousands protest Australia Day despite COVID-19 concerns
For many Indigenous Australians, who trace their lineage on the continent back 50,000 years, the Australia Day holiday is known as Invasion Day
Crafting COVID-19 recovery plans to recycle more could slash emissions
Housing, transport and food account for almost 70% of planet-warming emissions and are key areas where strategies to become 'circular' could have biggest impact, report says
NYC pension funds vote to divest $4 bln from fossil fuels
New York was among a dozen big cities worldwide that pledged to shift their money out of the fossil fuel industry last September
Billionaires thriving as poor suffer in widening COVID-19 divide - Oxfam
The 10 richest men, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla founder Elon Musk, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, saw their net worth increase by $540 billion
Emergency calls on violence against women spiked in Mexico in 2020
Two-thirds of women in Mexico have experienced some form of violence, according to official statistics
Climate adaptation summit hears dire warnings but misses action to match
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry and others say poorest will suffer the most from a failure to build resilience, but concrete progress is slow to come
Tribes exempt from pause in U.S. federal drilling program -official
The Biden administration temporarily suspended U.S. oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands last week
Pioneering AIDS researcher and doctor Joseph Sonnabend, 1933-2021
Joseph Sonnabend, pioneering AIDS researcher and physician, changed the way in which the virus was viewed both by the gay community and the wider world
Brazil proposes cuts to 2021 budget for environmental protection as deforestation spikes
Deforestation in Brazil's portion of the world's largest rainforest hit a 12-year high in 2020, according to government data