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Rise in Caribbean children displaced by storms shows climate crisis is a child rights issue: UNICEF

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A seven-year old boy stands in front of debris as Hurricane Irma moves off from the northern...

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Soil erosion must be stopped ‘to save our future’, says UN agriculture agency

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The Tanzanian Maasai landscape has witnessed a dramatic increase in soil erosion.

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More than 6,100 unaccompanied refugee and migrant children in Italy in need of community and family-based care

Approximately 94 per cent of all unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children currently in Italy, 6,172 children under 18, are living in reception centres, often isolated and cut off from opportunities to build their future, said UNICEF on...

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Greener tourism: Greater collaboration needed to tackle rising emissions

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A woman selling flowers in Vietnam's tourist-laden Hanoi wears a mask to mitigate breathing...

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