The most comprehensive global environment assessment ever undertaken calls for a new approach to jointly tackle the most pressing environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss ...

Water pollution is top environmental issue in survey of 30,000 people across 31 countries and territories by Globescan and WWF With the world facing a worsening water crisis, a huge public survey ...

I think those seeking solutions to our current climate challenges can look to natural purifiers as one pathway to planetary ...

Plastic waste pollutes our oceans, food, even our bodies. This week, 175 countries are trying to create a treaty to reduce that waste. Nations such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, who produce fossil fuels ...

I was a junior in high school when the first World Environment Day (WED) was celebrated in 1972. Marked annually on June 5, it was established by the United Nations General Assembly and over the past ...

Alexander E. Gates is affiliated with The Newark Green Team. Climate change can seem like an insurmountable challenge. However, if you look closely at its causes, you’ll realize that history is filled ...

Nations kicked off a meeting on Tuesday to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet. It’s the sixth time ...

A journalist and a farmer visit three fields with different styles of cultivation — conventional, organic and no-till — to bury cotton underwear in each. Though this sounds like the beginning of a bad ...

Some countries are known for having dangerously high pollution levels, poor sanitation, and large amounts of unmanaged waste. These problems are usually caused by overpopulation, industrial activity, ...

India’s air-quality crisis is deepened by unreliable data. Air quality measurement standards are looser than in places like the U.S., so that “moderate” readings often mask dangerous pollution levels.

Air pollution ranks among the world's deadliest threats, causing an estimated 8 million deaths in 2021, according to a recent analysis from a United Nations partnership. That same year, pollutants ...