Environmental treaties consistently fail to translate into concrete action because of poor clarity, excessive breadth, and a lack of depth. Two decades after the Kyoto Protocol and 10 years after the ...

If you are drinking coffee while reading this story, you’re likely ingesting a few micrograms of plastic. The same is true if you’re drinking tea. Or if you’re eating cereal, chicken soup, or anything ...

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Artificial, or orbital, space junk consists of objects ranging from paint flecks from functioning space stations, to those as large as decades-old, inoperative spacecraft. As of August 2021, the ...

The once-rich biodiversity of Hong Kong is threatened by habitat loss, climate change, and urban development. Now, scientists predict a future where nearly 30% of species – including the Chinese white ...

Governments and local municipalities must take action to reduce carbon emissions and look beyond “reduce, reuse, and recycle” programmes. The transport sector is responsible for releasing billions of ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) terminated Biden-era grant agreements worth $20 billion in March, on the basis that the program did not align with the agency’s priorities under the new ...

The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the world. This accelerated warming is modifying its environment and the geopolitical dynamics in the region. A melting Arctic is opening ...

A coral reef is a colony of hundreds of thousands of individual animals called coral polyps. These form when free-swimming coral larvae get attached to rocks or other hard surfaces underwater, mainly ...

A rapid attribution study by the World Weather Attribution group concluded that fire-prone conditions which fueled recent wildfires in the Iberian Peninsula have been made 40 times more likely by ...

Following decades of urbanisation, overexploitation, and pollution, China is now experiencing a serious water shortage and flooding made worse by the climate crisis. In July 2021, the Chinese city of ...

The high seas – the vast waters beyond national jurisdiction – cover nearly two-thirds of our planet. They are home to some of Earth’s most mysterious and vital ecosystems, from migratory whales to ...