Environment

“What humans have been doing for decades now is what I call a ‘plastification’ of the landscape and oceans.” Microplastics have permeated the oceans, carried...

The biomineral that forms the skeleton of corals contains a highly organized organic mix of proteins, which resembles bone. Corals in the tropics are facing...

Almost a third of the samples of sturgeon products bought through WWF’s market survey were illegal, and 214 cases of poaching related incidents were...

As species flee to cooler waters, it’s likely to have profound implications for marine ecosystems and human livelihoods. The tropical water at the equator is...

Public Eye, the investigative NGO based in Switzerland, calls paraquat the world’s deadliest weedkiller. There’s new research on the impact of pesticide pollution when it...

2021 April 7 - For the last year, Central and Eastern European governments have been pressuring the EU to include less restrictive criteria for...

At the highest risk of large-scale pesticide pollution are several mass producers of rice and other grains in Asia. A team of Australian researchers mapped...

Until relatively recently these orangutans lived across a much wider range of various habitats. Orangutans are critically endangered throughout their remaining ranges in Malaysia and...

Cereals, a staple that occupies nearly 65 percent of the EU’s cultivated area, are the crops most severely affected. Europe experienced repeated and prolonged heatwaves...

WWF-Romania created and launched the first tool which, by video monitoring the wood transports that leave the forest, can help authorities significantly reduce illegal...

People living near water have a lower risk of premature death and obesity and higher rates of mental wellbeing. We know that people are more likely to experience...

There is now sound evidence that seaweed in cattle diet is effective at reducing greenhouse gases. The nearly 1 billion cows around the planet produce...