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Greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025, say climate scientists in what is in effect their final warning

It will take "transformational change" in every sector in every region of the world to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius, the world's climate scientists and governments warn.

One in three people globally are still not covered by lifesaving early warning systems

António Guterres says entire planet should be covered by early warning systems within five years

The Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization (WMO) aims to end this disparity within five years.

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces defending the capital, Kyiv, managed to wrest back control of a strategic outlying town that Russian troops had earlier captured, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, but invading troops were reported to have breached the besieged port city of Mariupol, scene of some of the war’s most…

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces defending the capital, Kyiv, managed to wrest back control of a strategic outlying town that Russian troops had earlier captured, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday, but invading troops were reported to have breached the besieged port city of Mariupol, scene of some of the war’s most…

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The elements of viable peace exist, and all that is required is for someone to step forward and pursue it with urgency