In the 1990s, Irish singer Bob Geldof and friends campaigned to “drop the debt,” in an effort to alleviate the economic struggles of developing nations. A decade later, €122 billion of debt was cancelled for 36 countries by G7 finance ministers.

Research by Material Focus found that around 1.3 million single-use e-cigarettes are thrown away in the UK every week.

Facial recognition technology is mostly associated with uses such as surveillance and the authentication of human faces, but scientists believe they’ve found a new use for it — saving seals. A research team at Colgate University has developed SealNet, a database of seal faces created by taking pictures of dozens of harbor seals in Maine’s Casco Bay.

Increased groundwater demand and less precipitation because of drought have forever altered the state, but several sectors will be hit especially hard.

This was stated by acting head of the State Environmental Inspectorate, Ihor Zubovych, at a press conference "Damage caused by Russia to Ukraine's environment over nine months of war." "To date, more than UAH 1.387 trillion have been calculated using only three available methods. Damage caused to atmospheric air reached UAH 927.6 billion, land due to pollution and contamination – UAH 443.7 billion, and the total amount of damage caused to water bodies is UAH 15.7 billion,” the official said.

Estimates of impending risk ignore a big player in regional change and climate extremes.

The COP27 sponsor's products were the most commonly found items by volunteers researching plastic pollution.

A lawsuit announced Thursday by the state of California accuses 3M, Dupont and 16 smaller companies of covering up the harm from \

The Government™ has made an ad about Net Zero by 2050 and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

The Mississippi River is still in drought, with no end in sight. The historically low water levels in the busy waterway are disrupting transportation, recreation, and even water quality along the river.

This is due to the Ukraine War, research claims

Scientists in Switzerland have designed transparent solar panels that could make windows generate electricity.

The corporate-sponsored conference will provide ample opportunity for politicians and “green” businesses to do what they do best: nothing.

Removing CO2 directly from the air requires almost as many joules as those produced by burning the fossil fuel in the first place, writes Leigh Collins

Sparked by the 1970s environmental movement, the Clean Water Act — which marks its 50th anniversary this month — transformed America’s polluted rivers. The Delaware, once an industrial cesspool, is one of the success stories, but its urban stretches remain a work in progress.

Glen Canyon and the Hoover Dam are “not the whole story.”

In a matter of weeks – or even days – the UK’s free-range chicken sector is expected to be shut down. Any farms that had been giving their egg-laying hens or chickens access to the outdoors will be forced to keep them locked indoors. While the headlines are that bird flu is back after a surge of outbreaks over the past three weeks and fears of festive goose shortages, the reality is it never really went away.

The state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against five oil companies and the oil industry’s most powerful lobbying group for covering up and misleading the public about climate change, the latest round of state and municipal-led climate litigation seeking accountability from the oil industry.

The beef industry is flattening the Amazon, even when companies tell you it’s not.