Environment

BARCELONA, Spain Climate change could push quite 200 million people to go away their homes within the next three decades and build migration hot spots unless urgent action is taken to scale back global emissions and bridge the…

UNGUJA, Tanzania As a part of a push to conserve the natural environment within the Zanzibar archipelago, a Tanzanian charity has teamed up with farmers to rear butterflies under a scheme striving to offer residents a financial stake to…

Is there any aspect of our physical, social and mental life that has not been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? Probably not. The same can be said about our environment. When the pandemic began, many sought to connect COVID-19 and our…

BANGKOK Thailand is ramping up efforts to curb trade in wildlife to help reduce the risk of future pandemics, officials said Thursday, though it was unclear whether that would mean an end to all such sales in the wildlife trafficking…

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. A group of scientists urged the Biden administration Thursday to restore legal protections for gray wolves, saying their removal earlier this year was premature and that states are allowing too many of the animals to…

PARIS Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and other French cities on Sunday to call for more ambitious measures in the fight against climate change. The nationwide protests come after the lower house of parliament…

Paris Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution pose a triple threat to human health and prosperity that may be averted only by transforming how we power our economies and feed ourselves, the United Nations said Thursday. A…

The year 2020 saw many massive wildfires and forest fires around the world, including the Australian bushfires which started last year and continued until March, while the US state of California was also hit by blazes that left many dead.…

NAIROBI, Kenya The oil industry has asked the United States to pressure Kenya to change its world-leading stance against the plastic waste that litters Africa, according to environmentalists who fear the continent will be used as a dumping…