A Dutch appeals court upheld a historic climate liability ruling Tuesday, affirming that the Dutch government has to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, The Associated...
Research in Taiwan has show a link between very high levels of air pollution and oral cancer.
High levels of air pollution are linked to an increased risk of mouth cancer, new research...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its highly anticipated report Sunday on what needs to be done to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The answer: social and technological change...
The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly...
One way of mitigating the adverse effects of man-made climate change is to plant trees. The more trees there are, the more CO2 they absorb from the atmosphere, thereby alleviating the greenhouse...
In children’s playrooms and family living room floors around the world, small plastic blocks are a staple. In today’s world, Lego is synonymous with plastic. For this reason, the recent news from...
One Briton and two American scientists bag the prestigious award for their work that is meant to create cleaner fuels and treat diseases.
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded by the Royal...
Controversial plans to chop down a German forest to build a vast coal mine should proceed because Germany needs the polluting fuel to keep the lights on, according to the chief of the country’s...
‘Last Straw’ installation aims to raise awareness of plastic waste as the firm bans single-use straws from UK and Irish stores.
Ikea today symbolically unveiled its last single-use plastic straw in a display at...
Each 500ml bottle equates to a 20p discount on the cost of parking.
A new initiative in Leeds will allow drivers to pay for their parking using plastic bottles.
Car park operator CitiPark has launched a programme at the...
On the academic and business trajectory of the Serbian architect Milena Zindovic, in addition to our capital, where she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in 2007, there are also New York,...
The UNESCO World Heritage site will now be supplied with clean electricity from Good Energy.
Good Energy is to provide Blenheim Palace with 100% renewable power under the terms of a new deal.
The UNESCO...
The German government backed plans Tuesday to help reduce pollution from diesel vehicles while easing the burden on consumers worried about costly upgrades.
Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer and Environment Minister Svenja Schulze told...
During 2015 Nepal earthquake, the hydropower sector experienced severe losses. The country temporarily lost about 20 per cent of its hydropower capacity and more than 30 hydropower projects were damaged. The projects,...
The boss of RWE says the Hambach Forest and its tree house protestors will have to go.
The energy giant wants to raze the German woodland to expand its coal mine in the area and...
Wetlands around the world are disappearing at an alarming rate. New research shows that these valuable ecosystems are vanishing at a rate three times that of forests. Unless significant changes are made,...
