BEIRUT — The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, has entered the final months of its mission while operating in areas that remain under Israeli occupation. Although its mandate expires at the end of the year, the future of the security arrangements in southern Lebanon remains highly uncertain, with multiple options still under…
Months after the United Nations Security Council backed a comprehensive framework to end Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, Israel’s security cabinet has approved a highly constrained pilot project to allow foreign security forces into a narrow pocket of the devastated territory. Israeli media reported on Sunday that the so-called International Stabilization Force (ISF), part of United…
NewsFeed Israeli attacks near the Tyre Necropolis in Lebanon have damaged the UNESCO heritage site. Other sites across Tyre, a city with a 5,000-year history, remain at risk as efforts to enforce a shaky ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah fall short. Published On 21 Jun 202621 Jun 2026 Click here to share on social media…
For the past few months, I have been reporting on the nascent deep-sea mining industry. Metals worth trillions of dollars lie at the bottom of the sea, and a handful of companies have been developing the technology to get them up to the surface and into electric car batteries, weapons systems and whatever else might…
Before we explain more about the fallout from the war in Iran — and before you listen to the sounds of rare whales — let’s get caught up: The Trump Administration will dismantle an ocean monitoring system: The administration is planning to remove a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a…
It’s no secret that gross domestic product, the number that serves as a measure for economic progress around the world, is hardly a barometer of human flourishing. It registers the harvest of a forest as timber income, for example, without recognizing the resulting erosion and water quality degradation. It measures spending on hospitals, but not…
For the past week, diplomats from nearly 60 countries gathered in Colombia to discuss one of the most urgent and confounding questions of our day: how to move beyond fossil fuels. The issue is urgent because emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas are rapidly warming the planet, leading to increasingly dire consequences….
Ministers from nearly 60 countries are gathering this week in the Colombian city of Santa Marta for what is being called the first global conference on phasing out fossil fuels. The United States was not invited. The summit is taking place against the backdrop of the United States and Israel’s war with Iran, which has…
