The top of the storm cloud reached the stratosphere.
A severe thunderstorm cloud that formed over the Pacific Ocean in 2018 reached the coldest temperatures ever recorded, according to a new study.
World Health Day 2021
COVID-19 has unfairly impacted some people more harshly than others, exacerbating existing inequities in health and welfare within and between countries. For World Health Day,…
Lord Goldsmith said the new rule would ‘tackle deforestation’, but environmental campaigners warned it does not go far enough
The UK government is set to introduce a new law to stop businesses from…
At a time when 600 containers of hazardous and toxic waste destined for Tunisia have been blocked by the Italian customs authorities, civil society activists from the port city of Sousse gathered on…
It's a small change that can make a very big difference.
Every day, some 13,000 tons of microfibers are released into European waters — that’s equivalent to two garbage trucks of small textile…
Prospects for nuclear power in rest of region remain uncertain
The beginning of the commercial operations for the first reactor of the UAE’s 5.6GW Barakah nuclear power plant marks the first…
LONDON - The promise to return several Benin Bronzes from three Western institutions to the former Kingdom of Benin in Nigeria was celebrated by many. But returning all the artifacts looted by…
Research shows rising temperatures since 1960s have acted as handbrake to agricultural yield of crops and livestock.
The climate crisis is already eating into the output of the world’s agricultural…
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine tackles a controversial question: Is solar geoengineering – an approach designed to cool Earth by reflecting sunlight…
INTRODUCTION
This is a submission by Greenpeace Aotearoa, Inc. on the Climate Change Commission’s draft advice. Greenpeace is a global, independent campaigning organisation that acts to protect and…
In his latest deep dive for Last Week Tonight, comedian John Oliver took on plastic pollution and, specifically, the myth that if we all just recycled enough, the problem would go away.
The 2011 Fukushima disaster in the wake of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake has been an inflection point for nuclear power in the public mind, particularly in Europe. The events dealt a blow to the image…
Vídeo promocional per la #GlobalClimateStrike19M (2021)
Promotional video for the #GlobalClimateStrike, March 19 (2021)
Directed and edited by Birch With Aura Sala, Karu Borge, Sara Nofrerias,…
Four of the country’s most polluting power production plants are being formally shut down as Greece phases out the use of brown coal, or lignite, in line with European Union environmental protection…
Beijing skies turned yellow Monday as air pollution reached hazardous levels after the worst sandstorm in a decade coincided with an industrial boom following last year's COVID lockdown.
Our summers are already about 20% longer than they used to be, and if the climate crisis continues unabated then northern hemisphere summers could cover nearly half of the year by 2100, making them…