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An unprecedented number of young people are making their voices heard at the annual high-level meeting of world leaders which is underway at the United Nations.

The largest glacier in the Swiss Alps, the Aletschgletscher, is melting rapidly and could disappear altogether by 2100.

High school girls from Long Island, New York, join other youth climate activists in a demonstration calling for global action to combat climate change.

The United States has expelled two members of the Cuban mission to the U.N., accusing them of trying to "conduct influence operations" against the U.S.

A senior U.S. diplomat explained to lawmakers Thursday that the U.S. cut more than $160 million in aid for Afghanistan to motivate the government to be more accountable to its citizens and to the global community.

In Belarus, peat bogs are being revitalized and act as effective carbon sinks.

More than 29 million babies were born into conflict-affected areas in 2018, UNICEF said on Sep 20, 2019.

More women and their children are surviving today than ever before, according to new child and maternal mortality estimates released on Sep 19, 2019 by United Nations groups* led by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO).

The commander of a Rwandan Hutu militia wanted for alleged war crimes has been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Sylvestre Madacumura, leader of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), was killed Wednesday morning in Congo's North Kivu province, according to military sources in the region who spoke to VOA's Central Africa service.

Three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. have been acquitted in Tokyo District Court on criminal charges related to the 2011 meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan.