The world has ended using a harmful additive in petrol notorious for causing millions of premature deaths and severe neurological disorders, the United Nations announced on Monday.Refineries world
04:00 The blazing wildfire continues to deplete the forest cover shrinking the habitat and resources of a sugar glider – a tiny flying marsupial. With food availability getting scarce a
Diverting one year's worth of subsidies allocated to industries notorious for harming nature toward ecosystem-friendly projects could create 39 million jobs, a new study said on Thursday.A majorit
As mystery shrouds a herd of elephants continuing their unusual journey in the southwest Chinese province of Yunnan, deviating from the traditional migration route, wildlife conservationists feel
In 2010, more than 190 countries pledged to protect global biodiversity to prevent future pandemics and slow the pace of climate change by meeting 20 targets by 2020. But governments have met only
A dramatic decline in emissions during the COVID-19 lockdown dropped the accumulation of harmful pollutants in the Indus River Basin, resulting in clean water and reduced snowmelt.Extensive emissi
Chinese multinational technology conglomerate Tencent has been ranked first for powering its cloud service with a significant amount of renewable energy. Huawei and Baidu ranked second and third,
Enticed by cheap electricity, easy availability of hardware and land, bitcoin miners thrive in China. But the energy-guzzling sector has started feeling the pinch, with the country planning to bec
Indian Delhi has once again been rated as the most polluted city in the world, despite COVID-19 lockdowns which improved air quality in many cities in 2020, said a global ranking of polluted citie
A weather event in the Indian Ocean, known for triggering catastrophic bushfires in Australia and breeding crop-gorging locust swarms in Africa, also played a pivotal role in ravaging floods in Ch
More than 931 million tonnes of food, equalling nearly 17 percent of the total food available for consumption in 2019, were dumped in dustbins, dampening global efforts to reduce hunger and emissi
A majority of captive breeders in China are stocking giant salamanders from the wild, a practice banned by the government to prevent the animal from getting extinct, revealed a study on Tuesday.Kn
China officially rolled out the much-awaited Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) on Monday as a part of its efforts to meet the carbon neutrality pledge by 2060.The scheme will cover 2,267 power plants,
Hundreds of nautical miles away from land, the distance deep oceans provide has not been able to protect sharks and rays from humans, as the population of these species has depleted by nearly 70 p
The novel coronavirus pandemic might have temporarily curtailed continually rising carbon dioxide emissions to a certain extent, but the reduction won't be enough to meet the climate agreement goa
More than 1.56 billion discarded face masks used as a preventive measure to contain the novel coronavirus transmission will enter oceans in 2020, aggravating plastic pollution and threatening mari
Marine conservationists have expressed concern over the declining number of endangered sea turtle sightings along the coasts of the UK and Ireland.A study of the record, dating back to more than a
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