A case pending in the court of Batouri, in the eastern region of Cameroon, involves Mencheng Wang Woping. The Chinese mining company is accused by four families of being responsible for the death of…
The Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) is implementing reforms for the year 2023. Households in Lagos will be provided with two refuse bins each from January 2023, to support the waste…
We have become used to thinking about things from a driver’s perspective – but is that the sort of world we want?
When we block traffic from a street, like for a sports event or a street party,…
Boris Johnson is expected to confirm government funding for Suffolk project
Boris Johnson is poised to sign off as prime minister by giving the green light for a new nuclear reactor costing up to…
Experts and environmentalists say aquifer feeding Doñana national park, a Unesco heritage site, has been overexploited for tourism and to water fruit farms
World is ‘in last minute of the 11th hour to save lives’, says aid chief, amid fears that crisis is worse than 2010 famine, when 250,000 died
Two areas of Somalia are likely to enter a state of…
Swathes of rainforest have reached tipping point, research by scientists and Indigenous organisations concludes
Environmental destruction in parts of the Amazon is so complete that swathes of the…
LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - African leaders called on Monday for their counterparts from richer, polluting nations to increase funding for projects to help them adapt to climate change.
During the Gulf War in 1991, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was looking for a legal advisor on international humanitarian law.
At the time, I was working as a lawyer in the…
Countries most responsible for climate crisis must ‘end war with nature’, says António Guterres
The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, has said the world owes impoverished Pakistan “massive”…
New king will have to eschew grand statements on climate crisis but his role does not stop him talking to the PM in private
In 1970, the young Prince of Wales made a speech warning of the dangers…
Giant ice sheets, ocean currents and permafrost regions may already have passed point of irreversible change
The climate crisis has driven the world to the brink of multiple “disastrous” tipping…