Narendra Modi’s dream of a ‘self-reliant India’ comes at a terrible price for its indigenous population.
Over the past decade, Umeshwar Singh Amra has witnessed his homeland descend into a…
UK volunteers have seen a "massive" rise in the amount of single use masks discarded on beaches, high streets, canals and rivers.
Single use personal protective equipment (PPE) is significantly…
The Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius is on the brink of an environmental catastrophe after a bulk carrier struck a coral reef off its coast in late July, an accident that has led to a large…
It matters so much more than operating emissions.
If we are truly going to get a handle on climate change and carbon emissions then we have to deal with the issue of embodied carbon, or what I…
Fibreglass fuelled a boating boom. But now dumped and ageing craft are breaking up, releasing toxins and microplastics across the world.
Where do old boats go to die? The cynical answer is they are…
A new study gives a first look at the presence and potential effects of plastics and new forms of synthetic chemicals in stranded dolphins and whales along the coast of the southeastern U.S.
BANGKOK: For Bangkok’s “Spiderman Team”, dangling on ropes and rappelling down the city’s tallest buildings is just one of the risky parts of their job.
High above the choked streets, on many days…
The RCP 8.5 CO2 emissions pathway, long considered a "worst case scenario" by the international science community, is the most appropriate for conducting assessments of climate change impacts by 2050…
To meet its climate targets, the UK should ban advertisements for gas-guzzling SUVs, according to a report from a British think tank that wants to make SUVs the new smoking, as the BBC reported.
The…
In 1997, Charles Moore was sailing a catamaran from Hawaii to California when he and his crew got stuck in windless waters in the North Pacific Ocean. As they motored along, searching for a breeze…
Activists protest at Samsung Electronics store in Sydney over debt purchase by affiliate Samsung Securities.
A company in the Samsung Group invested in Adani’s Australian coal operation last year in…
Acidic runoff from abandoned Urals mine puts spotlight on hazardous industrial waste.
Russian prosecutors are inspecting a facility supposed to treat acid runoff from an abandoned Urals mine after…
US district judge sides with Standing Rock Sioux tribe
More extensive environmental review is required – judge
A federal judge has sided with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and ordered the …
Chinese glaciologists have found the freeze-thaw process has concentrated discharge from the disaster.
The Fukushima nuclear accident has added a distinctive signature to snow and ice across the…
Untreated effluent flowed into waterways for more than 1.5m hours, data shows.
Water companies in England discharged raw sewage into rivers on more than 200,000 occasions last year, according to…
Forums speak of hundreds of tonnes of plastic and other waste discarded by public.
Hundreds of tonnes of additional rubbish, including mountains of single-use plastic, is being discarded by the…
Samples from illegal refineries in Niger delta found to be of a higher quality than imported petrol in new analysis.
Black market fuel made from stolen oil in rudimentary “bush” refineries hidden…
A fast growing mountain of toxic e-waste is polluting the planet and damaging health, says new report.
At least $10bn (£7.9bn) worth of gold, platinum and other precious metals are dumped every year…
An estimated 14,000 tons of microfibers sloughed off of soiled laundry is believed to be released into European oceans every year, further contributing to microplastic pollution with a threat of…
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