Swarms of locusts tens of kilometres wide have threatened to devastate crops in East Africa since late 2019, putting some 32 million...

The biggest emitter in Australia, AGL Energy Ltd., plans to split off its coal-fired plants into a separate unit as increased renewable...

As shale drilling in the largest oilfield in the US has resumed, its methane emissions have soared back to pre-pandemic levels,...

Construction has begun on a commercial-scale plant to recycle all types of plastic using high-pressure steam, the first such facility in...

In 2019, 187 countries voted to amend the 1989 Basel Convention to include plastic waste in the definition of hazardous waste, and to...

In 1968, the Treaty for The Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was signed. This was a multilateral treaty aimed at reducing the...

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the world, and no one is seeing this more clearly than Russia. Home to more...

Fires have flared up in at least 10 provinces in Indonesia, with some of the burning occurring in peatlands. The burning, including in...

A sandstorm blowing across much of northern China has combined with already-high levels of air pollution to turn skies orange in Beijing...

According to new research, carbon dioxide emissions must fall by the equivalent of a global COVID-19-style lockdown every two years for...

Plastic pollution is a hype-word these days, the latest environmental “trend.” Pictures of animals suffering the consequences of our...

“I’m very happy because, finally, justice has been served. We’re going to restore nature, for all the sick children, for the people, for...

You may have heard some governments or organisations pledge to “achieve carbon neutrality” by a certain date or reach “net zero...

Kenya is emerging as a leader in the fight against plastic pollution and is among the first countries in East Africa to limit the use of...

Authorities in Israel are trying to locate the source of a suspected oil spill last week that has been described as one of the country’s...

The world’s largest shipping business, Moller-Maersk, plans to have the first carbon-neutral container ship on the water by 2023, seven...

Last year, South Africa approved a goal for the country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. An ambitious goal,...

Toxic chemicals known as Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are continuing to leach into oceans, causing serious physiological damage to...

A study has found that at least 48 US cities are under-counting their carbon dioxide pollution by nearly 20%. The study, which compares...

A recent study from a team of scientists at the Ocean Wise Conservation Association has found that 90% of microplastics pollution found...