Investing in planetary health would deliver higher GDP, less poverty: UN

IANS | December 9, 2025 7:30 PM

Nairobi, Dec 9 (IANS) The most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken has found that investing in a stable climate, healthy nature and land, and a pollution-free planet can deliver trillions in additional global GDP, avoid millions of deaths and lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and hunger.

7.6-magnitude quake hits northeastern Japan

IANS | December 8, 2025 11:00 PM

Tokyo, Dec 8 (IANS) An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck northeastern Japan late Monday night, prompting the suspension of ocean discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.