These plastic items kill whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds
When animals eat plastic, it can block their digestive system, causing a long, slow death from starvation.
How do we save whales and other marine...
Camels in the Arabian Desert are dying of plastic waste
In Dubai alone hundreds of camels are known to have succumbed to plastic pollution.
Dromedary camels are hardy creatures that roam deserts like that in...
Tree-ring study finds heat rise trims lifespan of tropical trees
If tropical trees die earlier, it will affect how much carbon these forests can hold and raises concern over CO2 emissions offsets.
The planet’s tropical forests...
More dams would devastate the ailing Mekong River
Once, not that long ago, the Mekong River in Southeast Asia was a formidable waterway, but it has been largely tamed.
Once, not that long...
Carbon, companies and claims of a net-zero climate future
United Airlines is investing in Direct Air Capture. Oil major bp just closed a big forest-based carbon offsets deal. But then what?
As some of...
Drip irrigation can reduce the vast footprint of rice cultivation
Rice is a staple diet across much of the world with billions of people depending on it for their daily sustenance. Yet wet rice...
Belgium plans to increase its power emissions
The “Energiewende” of Germany has been going on and doing rather badly for two decades now. They wanted to decrease emissions but started the...
Founder of South African NPO, Litter4Tokens, honoured with two top global...
Former Ballito resident, Clare Swithenbank-Bowman, founder of the non-profit organisation (NPO), Litter4Tokens, received two international Stevie Awards for Women in Business via a virtual...
Indigenous people in the US hope to save salmon by removing...
Salmon in the Klamath River in the United States were once abundant. They no longer are.
Salmon in the Klamath River in the United States...
lockdown-style emission cuts must become permanent
As the planet keeps on heating up, any global temperature beyond a warming of 2°C would be catastrophic.
As the planet keeps on heating up,...
The UK’s TCFD guidelines should be only the first step on...
The market is screaming out for a new approach to assessing climate risk.
The new measures announced by the United Kingdom’s Chancellor Rishi Sunak to...
Environmentalists bewildered by EU approach to meat consumption and Farm to...
Animal rights advocates and environmentalists across Europe have been left scratching their heads after news broke of a ‘Beefatarian’ campaign for which the European...
