Fikile Ntshangase was involved in legal dispute over extension of coalmine in KwaZulu-Natal.
A South African environmental activist who opposed the extension of a coalmine near her home has been…
Bugoma Forest is continuing to face serious threats from loggers, farmers, and NEMA a government agency entrusted with protecting our natural resources. It should be recalled that the National…
‘We are here to expose the climate destruction that Ineos is causing,’ activists say.
Extinction Rebellion activists have blockaded the gates of Ineos’s Grangemouth oil refinery, after government…
Green groups say agreement will allow emissions to continue to rise in the next decade.
Governments have rejected calls for tougher regulation of international shipping, settling instead for new…
New report by the WWF calls on governments to act on deadly plastic debris.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is urging governments, fishing gear producers and designers, fishers and the general public…
As the days tick down to next month's presidential election, debate rages over the U.S. government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic with critics of President Donald Trump calling for his ouster…
Licypriya Kangujam and Aarav Seth put in back of police van after demonstrating in New Delhi, which is often blanketed in thick smog.
A nine-year-old climate change activist in India was detained by…
Study measured financial impact of car emissions on deaths, health and lost working days in 432 urban areas.
The health costs of air pollution from roads are higher in London than any other city in …
European parliament votes to continue payments to farmers with no green conditions attached.
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish school strike pioneer and environmental activist, has accused MEPs of…
Delayed freeze in Laptev Sea could have knock-on effects across polar region, scientists say.
For the first time since records began, the main nursery of Arctic sea ice in Siberia has yet to start…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is clear: in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the world must dramatically reduce its carbon emissions and prevent global…
30x30 goal ‘critical’ in preventing species loss and climate breakdown ‘spinning out of control’
Last month, political leaders from 64 countries around the world all pledged to “reverse biodiversity…
A giant, catastrophic tsunami in Alaska triggered by a landslide of rock left unstable after glacier melting is likely to occur in the next two decades, scientists fear - and it could happen within…
It has been around 20 years since a lengthy discussion on climate change featured in a presidential debate during which time a monumental shift has happened in how America views the crisis.
The excess carbon dioxide emitted by human activity since the start of the industrial revolution has already raised the Earth's temperature by more than one degree Celsius, increased the risk of …
An annual comprehensive report on air pollution showed that it was responsible for 6.67 million deaths worldwide, including the premature death of 500,000 babies, with the worst health outcomes…