The humanitarian system is overstretched, underfunded and under attack, the United Nations Humanitarian chief warned on ...

Critics of the Trump administration’s early actions on global health—withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) and paralyzing U.S.-funded international health programs—fear that those moves ...

When I worked on the latest Global Burden of Disease cancer study, a global project that tracks cancer patterns and deaths ...

A meteorologist is clearing the air about one of the biggest environmental victories in human history. In a TikTok by ABC News Live (@abcnewslive), ABC News chief climate correspondent Ginger Zee ...

The world is heading toward a simultaneous convergence of geopolitical, technological and economic shocks combining to bring about a system-wide global crisis around 2027, says a research paper put ...

Leaders face rising uncertainty at work. With AI adoption on the rise, organizational stability depends on psychological ...

The global education crisis is having vast and unprecedented impacts on our world today. Without an education, an entire generation is at risk of being left behind, derailing development gains and ...

For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are drying out at unprecedented rates. Fueled by climate change, groundwater ...

In 2025, 305 million people need urgent humanitarian aid due to escalating crises. Conflict and climate change are causing unprecedented displacement, hunger, and destruction. Wars, including in Sudan ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Robert Kaplan, acclaimed journalist and author of Waste Land: A World in Permanent ...

Nations kicked off a meeting on Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet. It’s the sixth time ...

The global wild tiger population, once about 100,000 a century ago, has now fallen to an estimated 3,700–5,500.