Competing efforts to end South Sudan's war prolong conflict - U.N. panel
Defects include lack of oversight and enforcement
Indigenous Mapuche thwart Argentina shale development
"Imagine you find yourself overnight with 10 drilling towers in the yard of your house and you see them throwing polluted water on either side and breaking everything"
At least 32 die after massive quake off southern Mexico
The quake was apparently stronger than a devastating 1985 tremor that flattened swathes of Mexico City and killed thousands
Defying Trump, U.S. Senate panel approves funding for U.N. climate body
The United States is still a party to the 1992 UNFCCC, which oversees the Paris agreement, although Trump announced in June that he would withdraw
Central African Republic risks return to major conflict -UN report
"We are seeing a surge in ... very negative and antagonistic messages to the effect that 'foreigners' should be eliminated"
Irma powers toward Florida, leaving behind path of death, destruction
Irma is the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean and one of the five most forceful storms to hit the Atlantic basin in 82 years
Could companies be made to pay for stoking climate change?
"People who were harmed by wildfires, heatwaves (and) by rising sea levels ... have a much stronger basis to go in the court and demand redress for those harms"
The "Trash Isles": campaigners ask U.N. to make ocean waste its own country
"There may well be a national anthem, general elections and even a national football team"
FACTBOX-Humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh as 270,000 Rohingya flee Myanmar
There are serious concerns about malnutrition, especially among children under five and pregnant or lactating women