Protecting forests is an essential strategy in the fight against climate change that has not received the attention it deserves. Trees capture and store massive amounts of carbon. And unlike some…
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Most of the world associates recycling with environmentally-friendly. This is because recycling has always been marketed as a lifestyle with all the…
A metal recycling plant is due to open on the polluted Southeast Side months after the same firm shut a metal scrapyard in a white, affluent part of town.
Trinity Colón grew up believing everyone…
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Lloyds Banking Group has announced the first 1 million of 10 million trees have been planted across the UK in partnership with the Woodland Trust.
As part of its ambition to help finance a green…
It's the second-largest area of snow cover since current records began.
A new satellite image has captured the stunning white peaks of two volcanoes on the Big Island in Hawaii, which have…
Community forest projects have seen a surge in volunteers keen to reduce CO2 emissions by creating new woodlands.
The UK may be in the grip of a winter lockdown but in one village on the edge of the…
Cryptocurrency now uses nearly as much electricity as Argentina but analysts claim technology will soon be mostly powered by renewable energy
In little over a decade, bitcoin has risen from a fringe…
President says the time is finally right for international agreement to tackle biodiversity loss and global heating.
When it comes to the environment, few countries rival Costa Rica in terms of…
Ingestion of lead shotgun pellets from bed of Larnaca Salt Lake blamed for rise in deaths of migrating flamingos.
Conservationists in Cyprus are urging authorities to expand a hunting ban throughout…
Charcoal is an essential source of domestic fuel in many sub-Saharan African countries. Overall, the region produces 65% of the world’s charcoal, with Nigeria, Ethiopia and Ghana being the top three…
The year 2050 has been predicted by some to be a bleak year for the ocean. Experts say that by 2050 there may be more plastic than fish in the sea, or perhaps only plastic left.
Locusts Invasion in Mwingi, Kitui County in Kenya. Being the worst locusts invasion in 70 years, the locusts are threatening food security putting farmers at a risk of facing hunger. The great…
When DR Congo opened up an area the size of Belgium to logging in 2018, violating a forest protection agreement with international donors, it was blamed on a “rogue” environment minister.
In Kenya, the Food and Agriculture Organization has teamed up with the company 51 Degrees, which specializes in managing protected areas, and has rejigged software developed for tracking everything…