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Colorful celebrations the past eventful week started with were a striking demonstration of the inviolable and everlasting values, which underlay Turkmenistan’s policy of openness and respect for the interests of different nations, active position of ...

Padukone, in attendance with husband Ranveer Singh, spoke of her mental health journey

An Azerbaijani delegation participated in the 9th World Water Forum and 77th Board of Governors Meeting of the World Water Council held in Dakar, Senegal on March 20-26. President of the Republic of Senegal Macky Sall and heads of state and government

A decade ago, geologist Simon Onywere was among the first scientists to notice what residents of waterlogged villages already knew: lakes throughout Kenya are expanding. Since...

The continent is upping the pressure on wealthy nations to make good on their climate finance pledge. But a lack of expertise on the ground has also stalled crucial adaptation projects.

LONDON: A 20-year-old recipient of an Arab Women of the Year award has hailed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for championing women’s rights. Yemeni human rights activist Nada Al-Ahdal, who escaped two different child marriages by the age of 10, dedicated her achievement in social awareness award to the crown prince who she lauded for having helped bring about great changes

Despite the feel-good appeal of planting a tree as a planet-positive act, and the various trillion-tree initiatives taking root around the world, the benefits of tree-planting programs are being questioned.

Plastic pollution is accumulating worldwide, on land and in the oceans. According to a study commissioned by the World Economic Forum, without changes to current practices, there may be more plastic by weight than fish in the ocean by 2050. On March 2, representatives from 175 nations around the world…

Kenya’s great lakes are flooding, in a devastating and long-ignored environmental disaster that is displacing hundreds of thousands of people

A Drowning World: Kenya’s Quiet Slide Underwater. One of the first scientists to realise that something was wrong with the lakes was a geologist named Simon Onywere. He came to the topic by accident. Between 2010 and 2013 he had been studying Lake...