27 December 2023

Pope decries arms industry profits for pulling 'puppet strings of war'

The human heart is weak and impulsive; if we find instruments of death in our hands, sooner or later we will use them, said the Pope in his Christmas Day blessing. And how can we even speak of peace, when arms production, sales and trade are on the rise?

9 November 2022

WMO climate report shows 8 hottest years on record with global targets nearly 'Out of Reach'

New WMO report released on first day of UN climate summit that the last eight years are the eight hottest on record.

19 January 2022

Oh what a lovely pandemic, if you can afford your own spaceship

The yawning gap between the wealth of the world's 10 richest men and the people at the bottom has exacerbated the deaths from COVID-19.