The world’s energy and climate future increasingly hinges on whether emerging and developing economies are able to successfully transition to cleaner energy systems, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency.
Ending the “war on nature” must be part of global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his message for World Oceans Day.
Communities around the globe are today uniting for World Ocean Day 2021 which is shaping up to be one of the most impactful yet with a series of high-profile events throughout the month of June.
A devastating pattern is emerging for humanity’s closest relatives - the Great Apes - according to a new study predicting a colossal 90pc loss of homelands across Africa in the coming decades.
Unless efforts are scaled up significantly in countries with the largest energy deficits the world will still fall short of ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030, according to a new report.
Leaders in global politics, science, communities, religion and culture joined hands to officially kick off the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration - a rallying call for the protection and revival of millions of hectares of ecosystems all around the world for the benefit of people and nature.
Resetting humanity’s relationship with nature will be the focus of World Environment Day on June 5, which also marks the launch of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a ten-year global push to prevent, halt and reverse ecosystem degradation.
Continued global warming could cause the Earth's tipping points including ice sheets and ocean currents to further destabilize each other leading to a domino effect with severe consequences for humanity, a new study warns.
Experts are increasingly concerned at the plight of a Singapore-registered cargo ship, the X-Press Pearl, laden with nitric acid and other chemicals, which had been ablaze for almost a fortnight.