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World Bee Day — Raising awareness on the role of bees and pollinators in food and agriculture. FAO headquarters 20 May 2019, Rome, Italy. (Photo: ©FAO/Alessia Pierdomenico.)

Falling bee numbers — a threat to global food security, nutrition

FAO urges countries to step up efforts to protect our crucial allies in fight against hunger, as it observes World…

20 May 2019 - 04:26PM

Disaster risk reduction critical to keeping SDG gains

19 May 2019 - 08:10AM

Jamaica to host hemispheric disaster risk reduction meeting

17 May 2019 - 12:01AM

C’bean countries develop mitigation actions to access climate change financing

15 May 2019 - 12:20PM

UN official highlights need for disaster risk reduction

15 May 2019 - 04:53AM

Garbage at the side of the road near Table Rock in Vermont last month. (iWN photo)

Vermont man wants visitors to keep Table Rock clean

A resident of Vermont is urging visitors to Table Rock to keep the recreational site clean and take their garbage…

5 May 2019 - 06:48PM

Coreas Food Mart to reduce plastic bags use

2 May 2019 - 07:00AM

The effects of herbicides on humans, the environment

9 Apr 2019 - 04:55AM

VIDEO: Helping St. Vincent’s fishers maintain an essential industry in a changing climate

14 Mar 2019 - 08:27AM

Saving for a ‘rainy day’ takes on new meaning in the Caribbean

11 Mar 2019 - 05:43AM