Menlo Park, CALIFORNIA - Deforestation is pressing further into a protected area in central Peru, finds a recent analysis by the Monitoring the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP). Satellite data and images show areas of clearing for crops, cattle pasture, and gold mining within th ...
East Grinstead, U K - The UK Government's decision to introduce a national ban on microbeads can act as an "important step" that mobilises countries to look beyond microbeads in the ocean and focus on creating a plastic circular economy "without leakage".
Douglas, Isle of Man, U K - The Gambia on Tuesday announced a ban on importing timber after years of accusations from neighbouring Senegal that it profits from illegal logging across their border.
Gambian loggers have long benefited from lax oversight of Senegal' ...
London, U K - Shoppers in England have become much more likely to take their own bags to the high street since the introduction of a plastic bag charge nearly a year ago, a study has found.
More than nine in 10 people now often or always carry their ...
Scottsdale, ARIZONA - India smashed the record for most trees planted in a day, as 800,000 volunteers worked for 24 hours to plant 80 different species.
India is taking its part of the Paris Climate Agreement seriously. They have a $6 billion plan to refore ...
London, U K - Global warming could rapidly threaten grasses, including wild relatives of staple foods such as wheat and rice that provide half of all the calories consumed by humans.
A new study looking ahead to 2070 found that climate change was oc ...
London, U K - US imports of crude oil from the Amazon are driving the destruction of some of the rainforest ecosystem’s most pristine areas and releasing copious amounts of greenhouse gases, according to a new report.
Nuuk, GREENLAND - An international group of Arctic experts are urging science ministers attending the first White House Arctic Science Ministerial meeting in Washington, DC to take immediate steps to prepare for a vastly different Arctic ecosystem in the next 20 to 30 ...
El Segundo, CALIFORNIA - Scientists say the Earth is warming up fast, and policy makers have been urged to keep that warming to an increase of 2 degrees Celsius. But a new study suggests that may not be possible. Environmental Protection Agency Director of the Climate Protec ...
