News Archives - United Nations Sustainable Development /sustainabledevelopment/blog/category/news/ 17 Goals to Transform Our World Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:14:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Protecting our ‘most vital infrastructure’: Pushing back on desertification https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168156 Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168156 As heatwaves are turning deadlier, fires and disasters are razing cities — and rising seas are erasing territories — one environmental crisis remains dangerously overlooked: the degradation of the land beneath our feet. Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> The grass beneath our feet: Why rangelands matter https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168119 Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168119 In northern Kenya, a herder scans the sky for rain that hasn't come. The grass his animals need is thinning by the day.  Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> Former rebel fighters join campaign against Ebola in the DR Congo https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168146 Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168146 Demobilised former combatants are actively joining the fight against Ebola by participating in public information campaigns in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> An attack on healthcare every six hours, and no one held to account https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168144 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168144 Across the world, healthcare has suffered more than 10,000 attacks in the past eight years, including during the brutal conflict in Ukraine and efforts to contain the current Ebola outbreak spreading rapidly in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> Meth trafficking across Middle East becoming more advanced, UNODC warns https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168142 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168142 Authorities in Iran intercepted 3,663 kilogrammes of methamphetamines headed for Europe and the Persian Gulf in the first quarter of 2026, according to the UN’s drugs and crime fighting agency (UNODC). Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> ‘Ebola is winning’: Epidemic now killing one person every 30 minutes https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168148 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168148 The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – the fastest-growing on record and on track to become the deadliest – is killing one person every 30 minutes. Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> ‘Warned but not protected’: Four in ten adults in England ignore heat alerts https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168149 Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168149 As amber heat-health alerts spread across England this summer, a new study has found that the warnings are being received – but not changing behaviour. Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> Ebola tracing improves in DR Congo – but the virus is still winning the race https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168137 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168137 Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are tracking a growing share of people exposed to Ebola, but the epidemic in the country's restive east continues to outpace their ability to find and isolate the sick, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> WHO chief voices concern over Trump Administration’s executive order on vaccines https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168124 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168124 The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday upheld the safety of childhood vaccines in response to a new directive from the White House to overhaul the recommended inoculation schedule. Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> Cholera spreads across borders in West and Central Africa https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168125 Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168125 Cholera is spreading rapidly across West and Central Africa, with active outbreaks now in six countries and millions of children at growing risk, UN children’s agency UNICEF has said. Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> World marks second warmest July on record https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168115 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168115 As multiple regions contend with unbearable heat, drought, wildfires and other extreme weather, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday underlined the crucial need for stronger forecasts and early warning systems to protect lives and livelihoods.  Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> Ebola deaths top 2,000 as scientists race to develop vaccine https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168117 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168117 Local officials in the DR Congo (DRC) reported on Tuesday that deaths from the Ebola virus disease have surpassed 2,000, with half of that number in the last 20 days. Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> Colombia earthquake: UN joins national response https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168112 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168112 As earthquake rescue efforts across western Colombia continued on Tuesday, UN agencies said that they stood ready to help “with everything we've got”, in coordination with national authorities. Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> UN offers support to Colombia after magnitude 7.4 earthquake kills dozens https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168106 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168106 The UN offered its support to Colombia on Monday after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the west of the country, killing at least 111 people and injuring at least 87, including several children, while leaving others trapped under the rubble and causing landslides and serious damage to homes and infrastructure. Read Full Story on UN [...]

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]]> DR Congo: Ebola is killing people before they ever reach a doctor https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168105 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168105 More than 1,900 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak – and most of them never made it to a treatment centre. Between 60 and 70 per cent of deaths are happening in communities far from care, a gap that is now central to the World Health Organization's response.  Read [...]

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]]> Food prices edged up in July amid heatwaves and energy price hikes https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168096 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168096 The cost of key foods edged up last month as searing heatwaves and ongoing geopolitical uncertainty impacted energy prices around the world. Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> Ebola in DR Congo: Childhood deaths rise; hopes raised over new vaccine https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168100 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168100 More than 300 children have died in the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN said on Friday, as health experts urged trials of the only vaccine against the disease to halt further spread of the rare Bundibugyo species. Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> The Mediterranean’s own odyssey: An ecological treasure feels the strain https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168084 Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168084 More than 2,500 years after Homer’s epic was first told, Christopher Nolan's blockbuster retelling of The Odyssey has brought the journey back to big screens worldwide. But, behind the sweeping plot is another character facing an odyssey of its own: the Mediterranean Sea. Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> Ebola virus reaches displacement camps in DR Congo https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168092 Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168092 Agencies are on high alert amid reports that the rapidly spreading Ebola Bundibugyo virus species in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has infected 19 internally displaced people, killed five of them, according to the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR). Read Full Story on UN News

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]]> Strengthening El Niño to push 49 million more people into acute hunger https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/08/1168079 Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/08/1168079 Nearly 50 million more people in highly vulnerable communities globally are set to be pushed into acute hunger because of the strengthening El Niño weather phenomenon, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday. Read Full Story on UN News

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