environment

The Keystone XL pipeline is officially canceled.

The UK has announced its membership of the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA). The alliance aims to drive $500 million of global investment by 2030 into nature-based solutions to…

World Economic Forum's global initiative the Tree Trillion campaign aims to plant one trillion trees by 2030. The South Korean Forest Service is planning to contribute to this initiative by planting…

The massive drought parching the American West has reached a (dry) boil in the Klamath Basin along the California-Oregon border as climate change drives conflict between Native American tribes,…

Forest degradation has become the largest process driving carbon loss in the Brazilian Amazon, according to a recent study using ESA satellite data. While both deforestation and forest degradation…

You're right if you think you've been hearing a lot about container ships lately.

Fishing communities fear for future as oil, plastic and toxic chemicals devastate ecosystem. Until last week Lucien Justin, the chair of the Jude Watta fisheries committee in Wattala, near Sri Lanka…

The project in Wyoming – the country’s top coal-producing state – is a small advanced reactor with salt-based storage that could boost output. Power companies run by billionaire friends Bill Gates…

Female genital mutilation has revived under Covid but activists are pushing hard to save girls at risk. It was when the phone started ringing with calls from worried mothers in Somalia that Ifrah…

Drilling and refining has often come at the expense of Black communities, engulfing our neighborhoods with massive amounts of toxic pollution.

Kenya's Wildlife Service says that for the first time in 21 years, not a single rhinoceros was poached in the country’s national parks in 2020. To maintain the progress, it is conducting the first…

Analysis shows significant risk of cascading events even at 2C of heating, with severe long-term effects. Ice sheets and ocean currents at risk of climate tipping points can destabilise each other…

New data comes amid warning that world’s growing awareness of coal exports’ impact risks further damaging Australia’s reputation on climate. Emissions from coal mined in Australia but exported and…

Millions more across Tigray require urgent food and agriculture support to avert further slide towards famine, an analysis says. Some 350,000 people in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are facing…

Microscopic organisms known as extremophiles inhabit some of the last places on Earth you might expect to find life, from the extreme pressures of the ocean floor to freezing ice caps. Understanding…

It took nearly five months, after U.S. President Joe Biden dealt a death blow to the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office. But Calgary-based pipeliner TC Energy finally, formally cancelled…

It’s a tough watch, but it shows that if we bring down emissions now we can avoid a tipping point. And it's neatly broken down into easy-to-understand sections, making Breaking Boundaries: The…

The oil giants that have helped drive the climate crisis are finally being forced to take responsibility for their actions.

Global Experts Identify Key Options for Solutions First-Ever Collaboration between IPBES and IPCC Selected Scientists  

ABIDJAN (Reuters) - An unusual dry spell persisted across most of Ivory Coast’s cocoa-growing regions last week, fuelling farmers’ fears that the April-to-September mid-crop could be depleted. Ivory…