Shubham Mani Tripathi, newspaper reporter, India: shot dead in June 2020 for exposing illegal sand mining. Maria Efigenia Vasquez Astudillo, radio reporter, Colombia: struck and killed by a…
There’s a much-memed scene from Nineties action masterpiece, Desperado — Antonio Banderas’ El Mariachi and Salma Hayek's Carolina striding off as the backdrop ignites into a grenade-fueled fireball…
Eigg, West Highlands: The view beneath my feet, of paper-thin exoskeletons of a type of sea urchin, is also captivating.
At Laig beach on the island of Eigg, the tide has withdrawn to reveal a vast…
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has released it’s 2020 Progress Report on the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment.
The recent New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Progress Report, published by…
With global travel curtailed during the COVID-19 pandemic, many people are finding comfort in planning future trips. But imagine that you finally arrive in Venice and the “floating city” is flooded.…
Water companies discharged raw sewage into bathing water beaches almost 3,000 times in the past year, polluting the environment and risking public health, new analysis shows.
The discharges took…
Conservation volunteers find PPE items in nearly a third of areas targeted in annual drive.
Discarded masks and other items of personal protective equipment were found on nearly a third of beaches…
The wildlife crime underworld in Britain is rampant, with “shockingly low conviction rates”, experts say, as a new report reveals the exploitation of wildlife is going unabated.
The science is clear. If we continue to emit greenhouse gases at the same rate we have been doing for the past decades, 80 years from now, our planet will be at least four degrees warmer than pre-…
In October, firefighters in Tanzania had to tackle a number of fires on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain and the largest free-standing mountain in the world. The mountain and surrounding…
The giant land is the only place on Earth not touched by Covid. A British team is on a mission to protect it while also doing vital research
Rothera on Adelaide Island, the British Antarctic Survey…
Honeybees, Indian jumping ants and pigeons are some of the species that have evolved ways of collective decision-making.
Americans are currently deciding who they think will best serve them as…
‘Half of the carbon footprint of zero-energy houses occurs before anyone has even lived in them’
The construction material of choice to build a cleaner, greener future may be nothing more technical…
On the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and the 5th anniversary of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals – in the midst of a pandemic radically transforming our economies and…
Barclays has announced that it has successfully closed a £400m ‘Green Bond’ issue. This is the second bond it has issued with a specific intention to support climate-related products and initiatives…
Platte River Power Authority is moving forward with a plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 90% of 2005 levels by 2030, which will mean shuttering the Rawhide Unit 1 coal plant…
If policies promoting net zero emissions by 2050 are adopted 250,000 jobs would be created and $680bn added to the economy.
Australia’s economy will be 6% smaller, there will be 880,000 fewer jobs…
Competition and Markets Authority says rising demand may lead to ‘greenwashing’.
Companies that market their products or services as eco-friendly are to be scrutinised by the UK competition watchdog…