Autonomous regions exist in many different contexts around the world. While some countries decide to embrace autonomy fully ...

March 25, 2025 - According to the UN World Water Development Report 2025, mountains provide up to 60% of the world’s annual ...

As the world focuses on glacier preservation on UN World Water Day, researchers at the University of Waterloo are exploring ...

African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent’s vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome ...

The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region, home to the world's largest ice ... devastating floods can occur. The UN report notes that the HKH and other mountain regions, including the Hengduan ...

The upcoming summit in Samarkand will be truly historic as it will bring together for the first time the leaders of the five ...

Russia said on Sunday that its troops had taken the village of Basivka in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region, and were ...

Five of the last six years have seen the most rapid glacier retreat on record, UN said. All 19 of the world's glacier regions experienced a net loss of mass in 2024 for the third consecutive year ...

However, the Report indicates that glaciers across the world are melting at unprecedented rates, and that mountain waters are ...

with high mountain regions acting like the world's water towers. If they disappear, that would threaten water supplies for millions of people downstream. - 'Ignoring the problem' - For the UN, the ...

New data from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women reveal limited progress in achieving gender equality in ...