Environment

Written by: Kimberly White The government of Wales has announced a new plan to battle plastic pollution. In honor of Global Recycling Day, the Welsh government unveiled its plans to ban single-use plastics in 2021.  Straws, cotton buds, stirrers, balloon sticks,...

Written by: Akanksha Khatri and Alexia Semov We often take the contribution of nature and its ecosystem services for granted in our food production systems. Forests and oceans provide many of our natural resources, and we all benefit from healthy...

Written by: Michael Beck and Pelayo Menéndez Hurricanes and tropical storms are estimated to cost the U.S. economy more than US$50 billion yearly in damage from winds and flooding. And as these storms travel across the Atlantic, they also ravage many Caribbean...

Written by: Hans Nicholas Jong Environmental watchdogs have welcomed a zero-deforestation pledge by South Korean trading giant POSCO International with regard to its palm oil operations in Indonesia’s Papua province, following years of razing the land. Under its “No Deforestation,...

Written by: Kimberly White  Air pollution from burning fossil fuels is costing the world approximately $2.9 trillion each year, according to new research. Greenpeace Southeast Asia and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) quantified the global...

Courtesy of Landscape News Written by: Monica Evans Humanity just gained a dubious new accolade. In the last year, for the first time ever, we consumed 100 billion tons of new materials. That’s according to a report released on 21 January at...

Courtesy of Yale Climate Connections Written by: Stephanie Manuzak Instead of trucking vegetables across the country, one company wants to help food service providers grow food right where they are, no matter how little experience or land they have. “That’s at...

Written by: Maria Salazar Under the sea, jutting into the Pacific from the southern Peruvian department of Ica, rises a mountain range called Dorsal de Nasca. The 93 submarine mountains harbor more than 1,100 species, many of them endemic,...

Courtesy of Forests News Written by: Julie Mollins Unless land management strategies are overhauled to reduce the gap between forestry and agriculture, it will be impossible to feed and nourish the human population without further damaging the environment and forests,...

Written by: Kimberly White Greenpeace UK has teamed up with the creators of Wallace and Gromit to shed some light on the threats the world’s oceans are facing.  Award-winning studio Aardman created Turtle Journey, a short film sharing the story of...