Tue 04 March 2025: Around 2,000 firefighters have been working from the air and ground to put out Japan’s worst wildfire in half a century in the northeastern Iwate prefecture, local media reported on Tuesday. The wildfire has burned around 2,600 hectares as of Tuesday morning, left one person dead, and forced nearly 4,000 people […]
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Mon 24 February 2025: A long-planned bank to fund oil and gas projects in Africa must balance profit with climate considerations, experts say. A group of African countries is set to launch a bank to fund oil and gas projects amid growing reluctance by Western institutions to further invest in fossil fuels. The long-planned “Africa […]
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Thu 20 February 2025: A new study published in Nature finds ice is melting at a ‘concerning’ rate, with repercussions for sea-level rise. Ice loss from the world’s glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, a first-of-its-kind global assessment has found, warning that melting may be faster than previously expected in the coming years and […]
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Wed 19 February 2025: Only 90 of the 157 stranded marine animals appear to still be alive as rescue teams race against the clock to save them. More than 150 false killer whales are stranded on a beach in the state of Tasmania, with rescue teams now scrambling to save those still alive, Australian environment […]
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Image: Photo by Gideon Oladimeji on Unsplash Save Wed 19 February 2025: Plastic waste in Nigeria presents a dual challenge: cleaning up environmental pollution, and tapping into its economic potential. Many countries worldwide face similar challenges. India, for one, has chosen policies that give producers of plastic the responsibility to manage their waste. Rwanda has banned single-use plastic and […]
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Tue 18 February 2025: Entering 2025 with the influence of La Nina, last month unexpectedly was recorded as the hottest January on record, according to Levent Kurnaz, director of the Climate Change and Policy Application and Research Center at Bogazici University. The Copernicus Climate Change Service, affiliated with the EU, released the temperature report for […]
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Sun 16 February 2025: The population of the Indian pangolin has drastically plummeted in Pakistan due to a variety of factors, mainly poaching, illegal trade, habitat loss, retaliatory killings and climate change. The Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) is the only pangolin species found in the South Asian country, which is classified as endangered on the […]
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Mon 10 February 2025: Air pollution kills 100 children younger than age five every day in East Asia and the Pacific, UNICEF said in a new report on Thursday. Air pollution, the “silent killer,” reaches its highest levels in many areas of the region during the dry season, which lasts from now until April. It […]
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Fri 07 February 2025: A total of 3,477 wild elephants and 1,190 people have died in Sri Lanka between 2015 and 2024 due to the ongoing human-elephant conflict, said a minister on Thursday. Minister of Environment Dammika Patabendi told parliament that 1,466 wild elephants died between 2015 and 2019, while 2,011 more fatalities were recorded […]
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Mon 03 February 2025: Greenland’s ice sheet is “more rapidly” cracking open as a result of climate change, according to a new study published on Monday. A new report by UK’s Durham University, led by Tom Chudley, revealed that crevasses had significantly increased in size and depth at the fast-flowing edges of the ice sheet […]
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