An effort to restore mangroves is underway in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula with a group of women working to restore a vital ecosystem under threat from development and climate change.

Millions of people are facing a long, difficult road to recovery after Irma’s week-long deadly rampage through the Caribbean and southeastern United States.

By the end of 2011 the world will have reached 7 billion people. The United Nations Population Fund is leading an innovative global campaign to bring awareness to the opportunities and challenges that this milestone presents.

From December 2001 to March 2002, McBrien coordinated the "United We Stand, United We Sew" project, in which volunteers sewed together a 20-foot by 30-foot American flag from 3,000-plus 4-inch by 6-inch American flags.
Each small flag represents a victim in the Sept. 11 attacks. There are also flag...

Peer reviewed by historians at Columbia University and at the American Friends of Notre-Dame. Notre-Dame de Paris survived all kinds of wars and events that could have destroyed it, but was more affected by its maintenance in the 21st century.

Exxon research scientists warned about the effects of fossil fuels as early as 1977. Exxon has known about climate change for almost 40 years, despite its efforts to continue to promote fossil fuels and deny its existence throughout the 1990s as a leader of the Global Climate Coalition.

Forty world leaders are taking part in a climate change summit hosted by US President Joe Biden. Alice Hill, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, shared her thoughts on the meeting.

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris has been completely enveloped in silver and blue fabric. The installation, named “L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped”, was first conceived by late artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1961. Six decades later, the project was finally brought to life with three months of construct

Produced by the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and Globaia and funded by the UN Foundation. The data visualization summarises and visualizes several of the most significant statements in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) recent Fifth Assessment Report, (Working Gro...

It's a cautionary tale with a twist. Unless we do more to protect them, coral reefs could become extinct by 2050 due to pollution & climate change. This video was released just ahead of the landmark Copenhagen summit on climate change in order to draw attention to the plight of these fragile ecosyst...