A new study has shown that air quality is improving in the fastest-growing regions of Africa. Rapidly-growing countries generally see...

Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil was responsible for 8.7 million deaths globally in 2018, one in...

According to new research by StreetLight Data, New York, Sarasota and Portland have emerged as the leading US cities for “green”...

The Long Island Sound is an estuary between New York’s Long Island and the state of Connecticut. It is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal...

A barrister specialising in environmental cases has warned that air pollution will lead to mass migration, saying that it “does not...

A new report has revealed the cities in the UK that are leading the way when it comes to low pollution rates, with Sheffield emerging as...

The UK will continue to allow plastic waste to be exported to developing countries, despite promising to ban the practice, after it has...

According to a new report, US greenhouse gas emissions fell by 10.3% in 2020, the largest drop in emissions since World War II, as...

New research has found that pollution from plastic waste dumped into the world’s oceans is correlated with ocean acidification, which...

In 2017, China imported nearly 5.7 billion kilograms of scrap plastic. A year later, that figure had dropped by 99.1%, following the...

Air pollution is known to negatively impact virtually all of our organs, including the lungs, heart and bones. Long-term exposure to air...

According to a new study, the combined weight of all human-made objects will likely exceed that of all living things on Earth by the end...

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced plans to give £10 million pounds to the city’s Green New Deal fund, which will aim to...

According to a new report by UNICEF and Pure Earth, lead poisoning has been affecting children around the world on a substantial yet...

America is the global leader of food waste, which has catastrophic environmental, financial and social fallout. With growing urgency to...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a USD$102 million contract with a Swiss start-up company to incinerate a piece of space junk....

Over 90% of South Africa’s power currently comes from coal, however it plans to get this down to 46% by 2030, and down to 30% by 2050....

Microplastics have been found in snow close to the peak of Mount Everest. Humanity has now polluted every corner of the world, from the...

Greenhouse gases, particularly CO2, methane and nitrous oxide, have reached record levels despite COVID-19- induced lockdowns, according...

Recent figures from the WWF indicate that between 500 000 and one million tons of ghost fishing equipment are abandoned in the ocean each...