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Record rise in carbon dioxide levels during 2024: UN weather agency

·October 15, 2025·1 min read

The surge was driven by continued human emissions, more wildfire activity and weakened absorption by land and ocean “sinks” – a development that threatens to create a vicious climate cycle. Tripling since the 1960s The WMO’s latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin shows that CO₂ growth rates have tripled since the 1960s,...

World Humanitarian Day 2025: Aid workers mull record toll of their own

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·August 19, 2025·3 min read

Speaking to UN News from the wartorn enclave to mark World Humanitarian Day, Olga Cherevko from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that exhausted aid workers continue to show up for work “day in and day out”. Approaching two years since the start of the war in Gaza, Ms....

Record starvation and malnutrition in Gaza; more West Bank displacement

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·August 13, 2025·1 min read

That warning comes from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in a tweet posted on Tuesday, calling for more aid to be allowed into the enclave by Israeli authorities. Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported that five people died over the past 24 hours due to malnutrition and starvation, the UN...

Droughts are causing record devastation worldwide, UN-backed report reveals

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·July 22, 2025·2 min read

This is according to a new report from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the U.S. National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) and the International Drought Resilience Alliance on the global impacts of droughts from 2023 to 2025. “Drought is a silent killer. It creeps in, drains resources, and devastates...

Ukraine: Civilians under fire in record numbers as attacks surge

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·July 15, 2025·2 min read

According to the UN human rights office, OHCHR, at least 139 civilians have been killed and 791 injured so far in July alone. “The devastating physical and psychological impact on civilians of repeated attacks in this and other conflicts cannot be captured by numbers alone,” said OHCHR spokesperson Liz Throssell on...

Gang violence displaces a record 1.3 million Haitians

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·June 12, 2025·2 min read

This represents a 24 per cent increase from December 2024 according to the UN agency – the largest number of people displaced by violence on record there. “Behind these numbers are so many individual people whose suffering is immeasurable; children, mothers, the elderly, many of them forced to flee their...

Number of internally displaced breaks new record with no let-up in conflicts, disasters

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·May 14, 2025·1 min read

“These figures are a clear warning: without bold and coordinated action, the number of people displaced within their own countries will continue to grow rapidly,” said Amy Pope, Director General of the International Organization for Migration. The recent rise in conflicts worldwide – particularly in Sudan, the Republic of the Congo,...

Record hunger in Haiti amid rising needs

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·April 19, 2025·2 min read

The UN agency is sounding the alarm following the release of the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, which uses a scale from 1 to 5 to assess conditions. It reveals that more than half the Haitian population, a record 5.7 million people, are projected to experience acute...

DR Congo: Record numbers face acute or emergency hunger

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·March 28, 2025·3 min read

The situation represents one of the world’s worst food crises, according to the UN-partnered Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) platform. “The humanitarian situation in the DRC is deteriorating at an alarming rate. Families who were already struggling to feed themselves are now facing an even harsher reality,” said Eric Perdison,...

Violence triggers record displacements in Haiti’s capital

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·March 20, 2025·1 min read

Gang violence, displacement and instability have long gripped Port-au-Prince and other parts of the country, but attacks over the past two months have shattered even the few remaining gang-free areas, leaving communities increasingly vulnerable. The Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince remains closed, and many neighbourhoods – once seen as...

Confirmed: 2024 was the hottest year on record, says UN weather agency

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·January 11, 2025·3 min read

“We saw extraordinary land, sea surface temperatures, extraordinary ocean heat accompanied by very extreme weather affecting many countries around the world, destroying lives, livelihoods, hopes and dreams,” WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis said. “We saw many climate change impacts retreating sea ice glaciers. It was an extraordinary year.” Four of the...

2024 to become the hottest year on record

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·December 31, 2024·2 min read

“Today I can officially report that we have just endured a decade of deadly heat. The top ten hottest years on record have happened in the last ten years, including 2024,” said Secretary-General António Guterres in his message for the New Year. “This is climate breakdown — in real time. We must...