... over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns and threatening health and food supplies, the United Nations reported Thursday.
A group of the world's leading scientists has urged the United
Nations to establish an international network to search the skies
for asteroids on a collision course with Earth. The spaceguard
system ...
"Battlestar" producers and actors held a panel at the United Nations.
LONDON (AP) -- United Nations health officials estimate about 4 million people who need AIDS drugs worldwide are now getting them, according to a report issued Wednesday....
... worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS - about 33 million - has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday....
... and seven other Arctic countries wrapped up top-level meetings in Norway on Wednesday, having been urged to make commitments on climate change at an upcoming United Nations conference later this year.
... predictors of WUE.
An international team of experts led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations developed an agronomic model called AquaCrop to address the need for modeling ...
... emission reductions to address climate change. The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change called upon the developed nations to reduce carbon emissions and provided the impetus ...
GENEVA (AP) -- As nations negotiate tough decisions on cutting greenhouse gases, the United Nations is holding a separate conference on coping with more floods, droughts and other effects of ...
Study still finds a negative correlation between national fertility rates and the United Nations' development index.
... medical treatments for osteoporosis, cancer and other human ailments if it does not act quickly to conserve the planet's biodiversity, a senior United Nations environmental official said Wednesday.
... with pride when the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and a United Nations panel that spent two decades assessing Earth's changing ...
... , a large number of people reported suffering from illnesses like hepatitis and gastroenteritis.
A key United Nations Millennium Development Goal is to halve the number of people without access to ...
... on every pound of yellow beans sold in the United States caused a steep decline in exports of ... seeds, stems and tubers are held in trust with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). ...
... -reaching changes occurring in this lake."
Lake Baikal is the grand dame of lakes. In 1996, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared it a World Heritage ...
