20 firms will account for most of the addtional 70 million metric tonnes of polymer churned out in the next four years.
The world’s biggest manufacturers of single-use plastic are set to increase…
In a historic move, Chile's legislature has unanimously passed a plastic regulation law that advocates say will reduce the country's plastic waste by more than 23,000 tons every year.
The new law…
Oil Change International, Center for International Environmental Law, Climate Action Network Canada, Environmental Defence Canada, the Fossil Fuel No-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, Friends of the…
The omnipresent plastic is rife in dust, rice, placentas and tap water, but experts say it’s hard to untangle whether it’s harmful to humans.
As much as the idea might be unpalatable, all of our…
Activist groups hail ‘historic win’ as Dutch court orders multinational fossil fuel company to cut CO2 emissions by 45% by 2030.
Climate activists who have taken fossil fuel giant Royal Dutch Shell …
UN Climate Change News, 27 May 2021 - Today, world leaders convened at the Climate Breakthroughs Summit -- a collaboration between the World Economic Forum, Mission Possible Partnership, the UN…
A community project on the Lamu archipelago trains women in preserving this vital ecosystem and provides business loans.
Kenya’s mangroves have been harvested for centuries, the timber used in…
A major £30m project will test trees, peat, rock chips, and charcoal as ways of removing climate-heating emissions
Climate-heating carbon dioxide will be sucked from the air using trees, peat, rock…
Thousands of students across Australia walked out of classrooms to take part in the School Strike 4 Climate on Friday, calling for greater action on global heating.
Defying pouring rain in Sydney,…
The Congo's Mount Nyiragongo erupted Saturday night (May 22), sending thousands of people fleeing across the border into Rwanda and filling the skies with orange-red smoke. By Sunday morning, the…
In early hours of Friday, windfarm turbines provided nearly two-thirds of Britain’s electricity.
Powerful gusts of wind sweeping across Britain have helped the country reach a new all-time high for…
Just about every indicator of drought is flashing red across the western U.S. after a dry winter and warm early spring. The snowpack is at less than half of normal in much of the region. Reservoirs…
The U.S. electric car manufacturer Tesla suspended its plans to accept Bitcoin as a payment method, CEO Elon Musk announced in a Twitter statement late Wednesday.
Musk, who has become notorious for…
An activist investor won at least two seats on the board of Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM +0.65% , a historic defeat for the oil giant that will likely force it to alter its fossil-fuel focused strategy and…
The New Zealand Parliament is expanding on a government order made in September 2020 requiring large insurers and financial institutions to identify their risks from climate change.
The government…
Mark Carney to Brookfield Asset Management. Brexit architect Nigel Farage to DGB Group. A senior Obama aide to BlackRock Inc.
One after another, the high-profile hires came in recent months, and in…
Translating complex climate science into language people understand has always been difficult. At various times, the aim of different climate policies has been holding average global temperature rise…
The legendary primatologist urged people to develop a new, more sustainable relationship with the natural world.
Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall says the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the…
There is more than a 40% chance that the annual average global temperature in at least one of the next five years will temporarily reach 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
And these odds are…
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