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Conflict and violence threatens food security for 85 per cent of 258 million people in 58 countries, according to a new Action Against Hunger report.

Eighteen new sites from around the world have got the prestigious UNESCO Global Geopark designation, which was announced the other day.

The inauguration of the new Parliament Building of India on May 28 has raised a political row between the Ruling BJP and the opposition parties. Nineteen Opposition parties led by the Congress announced their decision to boycott the inauguration. They stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to inaugurate it himself and “completely side-lining” President Droupadi insults the high office of the President and violates the letter and spirit of the Constitution.

The temperature is on track to rise 2.7 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by 2100, pushing more than two billion people (22 percent) well outside the climate comfort zone, said scientists in Nature Sustainability.

More than 50 percent of the largest lakes in the world are losing water, according to a new assessment published in Science. The key villains are not surprising: warming climate and unsustainable human consumption.

In the United States, more women delay motherhood but stay in the labour force after their children are born. Apart from this, working mothers take on more care giving responsibilities at home, than fathers do, revealed a survey by the Pew Research centre.

The United Nations warned of a growing likelihood of El Niño to develop in coming months, fuelling higher global temperatures and possibly new heat records.

The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food, nutrition, and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, according to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC). The report said that over a quarter of a billion people face acute hunger, and people in seven countries are on the brink of starvation.

The world saw an increase in military expenditure by 3.7 per cent in 2022, which stood at a new high of 2240 billion dollar, according to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

A large majority of people in the US (83%) continue to have negative views of China, and the share who have very unfavorable views (44%) increased by 4 percentage points since last year, according to PEW Research Centre.