Workers busy at a shipbreaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Tue 03 October 2023: European maritime companies are ditching their old ships for scrap on Bangladeshi beaches in dangerous and polluting conditions that have killed workers pulling them apart, says Human Rights Watch. Bangladesh’s southeastern Sitakunda beaches have emerged as one of the world’s largest […]
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Mon 02 October 2023: European Union (EU) has launched the first phase of its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aimed at imposing CO2 emissions tariffs on various imported goods, including steel, cement, and more, reported Reuters. This initiative is designed to safeguard the EU’s commitment to sustainability by preventing the influx of environmentally detrimental foreign products […]
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Sat 30 September 2023: Ella Kissi-Debrah’s tragic story serves as a haunting reminder of the deadly consequences of air pollution. In 2013, this nine-year-old succumbed to an acute asthma attack after a life spent within 30 meters of London’s bustling South Circular road, enduring frequent seizures and numerous hospital visits. In 2020, a coroner officially […]
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Tue 26 September 2023: The world’s coldest region recorded the most intense heatwave ever last year, according to a study published last month. In March 2022, temperatures in Eastern Antarctica spiked about 39 degrees Celsius (102.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above the monthly average, said the study “The Largest Ever Recorded Heatwave – Characteristics and Attribution of the Antarctic […]
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Wed 20 September 2023: A series of powerful tidal surges battered coastal areas in South Africa’s Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces over the weekend of 16 September. One person died; cars, homes and businesses were damaged. The Conversation Africa asked Jasper Knight, a geoscientist who researches coastal processes, to explain what happened. What drove the flooding? […]
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Thu 14 September 2023: A total of 1,910 environmental activists have been killed between 2012 and 2022, with Latin America holding the highest percentage globally, an international non-governmental organization (NGO) announced Wednesday. Global Witness released a report that revealed statistics on murdered environmental activists ahead of the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), which will […]
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Mon 11 September 2023: As the G20 nations urged the world to double down on efforts to address climate change during the weekend, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday said climate change will not end the world as is being propagated. Reacting to a follower who posted that 14-year-olds are being told climate […]
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Fri 08 September 2023: Saudi Arabia has launched an international body that will fund and promote water sustainability projects in developing nations. Riyadh warned that world water consumption is set to double in the coming decades. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced the initiative on Monday, with the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) noting that the […]
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Fri 01 September 2023: Officials in Argentina announced Tuesday that scores of sea lions had died from bird flu, as an unprecedented global outbreak continues to kill wildlife, prompting fears that it could spread more easily among humans. Animal health authorities have recently reported dead sea lions in several locations along Argentina’s extensive Atlantic coast, […]
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Thu 31 August 2023: Pope Francis, announcing that he will issue a new document on the protection of nature, said on Wednesday he was doing so because a “terrible world war” against the environment was taking place. Speaking at his weekly general audience, Francis said the document, a followup to his landmark 2015 encyclical “Laudato […]
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