New York City is celebrating its 56th annual Earth Day on April 22, and events around the city will kick off this weekend. The day, founded by U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, is meant to ...

Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Tuesday aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz, just hours before President Donald Trump’s deadline for Iran to cease threatening the key ...

Commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the United Nations General Assembly passed a landmark resolution, introduced by Ghana, ...

The U.S., Israel and Argentina on Wednesday voted against a United Nations resolution led by Ghana to label the international slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” and call for ...

Pennsylvania House Democrats withdrew consideration of a resolution honoring March as "National Women’s Month" after a Republican lawmaker filed an amendment to include the physiological definition of ...

The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations. The vote at U.N. headquarters in New ...

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a ...

Ghana-led UN resolution on transatlantic slavery adopted Experts say resolution is 'large step' at UN US votes against it, EU abstains over concerns Ghana said the resolution ‌was needed because the ...

Above left, Oscar Cavazos (Marine Laboratory Specialist, IODP JRSO) joins other marine techs in preparing a new sediment core to be sectioned on the catwalk of JOIDES Resolution in 2022. MADISON — ...

A U.S. Court of Appeals denied a request to halt a land exchange at Oak Flat, clearing the way for mining work to begin. Resolution Copper now owns the land, which is sacred to the Apache people, and ...

LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - Climate shareholder activist group Follow This said it would fight BP's (BP.L), opens new tab decision not to include its climate resolution in its annual general ...

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