With the start of the new year, people are being urged to make a new habit to help the planet - to refill "just one bottle". But what does that mean and how can you do it?
Coal miners in Indonesia have been shirking their obligation to allocate 25% of their output for the domestic market, leading to a critical shortage of the fossil fuel for power generation.
That’…
Leading us towards another crisis
A series of new papers by economists suggest that even if we did nothing about climate change, the impact on global GDP would be miniscule. The only problem is, the…
RESEARCHERS have claimed that a sixth mass extinction event is in progress on Earth as the planet is ravaged by floods and rising sea levels due to human pollution.
To date, the Earth has had five…
Scientists warn of greater likelihood of extreme weather, heightened risks posed by sea level rise and lower carbon absorption by oceans after sixth straight year of record breaking temperatures
The…
Planet-heating emissions rose by 6.2% compared with 2020
Rise largely down to increase in cars and trucks on the road
Planet-heating emissions roared back in the United States in 2021,…
Brussels Airlines has operated 3,000 flights without passengers this winter to avoid losing take-off and landing slots.
The airline’s parent company, Lufthansa Group, confirmed that 18,000 flights…
Campaign by local angling club to free fishes’ migratory routes is part of move across Europe to create free-flowing rivers
A dam that has blocked the Tromsa River in Norway for more than 100 years…
With the climate crisis becoming ever more urgent, a growing number of young, childless men are taking the drastic decision of being sterilised for environmental reasons
Care International report highlights ‘deep injustice’ neglected by world’s media, as extreme weather along with Covid wipes out decades of progress
From Afghanistan to Ethiopia, about 235 million…
The IMF allots voting rights and emergency funds according to an outdated and unfair quota system established in 1944, before most colonies were free. Let’s change it .
Last year was sixth hottest ever recorded, scientists find
World ‘warmer now than at any time in the past 2,000 years’
Nearly a quarter of the world’s population experienced a record hot year…
Heating and habitat loss drive birds and mammals to cooler areas where plants can not follow, study shows
The decline of seed-dispersing animals is damaging plants’ ability to adapt to climate…
Indian author says pillaging of lands and killing of indigenous people laid foundation for climate emergency
Amitav Ghosh can clearly remember his first interaction with the climate crisis. It was…