Sat 14 June 2025: Nigeria accounts for the largest volume of detected pangolin scales illegally traded from Africa. Between 2010 and 2021, 190,000kg of scales – representing nearly 800,000 African pangolins – were seized in shipments linked to Nigeria, despite a ban on international trade. Pangolins are scaly mammals found across Asia and Africa. They are considered the world’s most […]
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Fri 13 June 2025: The biggest temperature increases were recorded in the Middle East, West Asia, northeast Russia, and north Canada. This year, the world experienced its second-warmest month of May since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has said in a monthly bulletin. Global surface temperatures last month averaged 1.4 […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: Several countries attending the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in the French Mediterranean city of Nice have called for a binding international agreement to tackle plastic pollution, a growing threat to marine ecosystems and human health. Co-chaired by Costa Rica and France, the conference has brought together leaders and senior […]
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Wed 11 June 2025: In an unprecedented conservation effort, 70 southern white rhinos traveled over 3,400 kilometers (2,112 miles) from South Africa to Rwanda via truck and Boeing 747, marking the largest rhino translocation ever recorded. As part of a rewilding program, the rhinos were moved in two groups of 35, first by air and […]
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Thu 05 June 2025: More than 212 active fires were burning in the country as of Tuesday afternoon, half of which were out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. Forecasters reported that smoke from wildfires in three Canadian provinces has spread across roughly one-third of the United States, with minimal impact […]
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Wed 04 June 2025: Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife. While scientists have long experimented with biodegradable plastics, researchers from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and the University of Tokyo say their new material breaks down much more […]
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Mon 02 June 2025: The study found that without the phasing out of fossil fuels, temperatures will continue to soar. About half of the world’s population experienced an additional month of extreme heat over the past year due to human-caused climate change, according to a new study. The extreme heat caused deaths and illnesses, damaged […]
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Fri 30 May 2025: More than 20% of the world’s oceans have darkened in the last two decades, posing a threat to marine life and ecosystems, according to research published Tuesday. Researchers from the University of Plymouth and Plymouth Marine Laboratory used satellite data and modelling to study changes in ocean light zones, building on […]
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Thu 29 May 2025: The Canadian province of Manitoba declared a state of emergency late Wednesday in response to several rapidly spreading wildfires. “With the wildfires in northern Manitoba intensifying, our government has triggered a provincewide state of emergency to help us through this crisis,” Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew told a news conference. “The safety of Manitobans is, and will […]
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Thu 22 May 2025: New research warns that runaway melting of Earth’s major ice sheets could cause significant sea level rise and force mass migration from coastal areas— even if global warming is limited to the widely accepted 1.5°C target. A team of international scientists aimed to determine a “safe limit” of global warming for […]
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