Nigeria has a coastal litter problem: It’s time to clean up

Thousands of kilograms of litter reported as clogging up the beaches of Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone could also stymie …

Giant: Meet a bacterium that is visible to the naked eye

New guidelines on abortion care will help prevent more than 25 million unsafe abortions: WHO

WHO has released more than 50 recommendations that include clinical practice, health care delivery and law and policy interventions to support …

Latin America, Caribbean see acutest hunger in 15 years: UN

The number of people living with hunger increased by 13.8 million in just one year in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a new UN …

Expectations from CoP26: Climate finance needs to be scaled up with focus on adaptation, says LDC Group 

The group wants a balance between funds provided for mitigation actions and those for adapting to climate change

A neglected tragedy: 2 million stillbirths in 2019, flags report

A majority of stillbirths happened in sub-Saharan Africa

It’s only getting worse: New WMO report flags intensifying climate crisis in Latin America & Caribbean

2020 was a year of unprecedented heatwaves, droughts, forest fires, cyclones and food insecurity for the region  

Quake strikes Haiti; 1,200 killed, emergency declared

Earthquake in Haiti a wake-up call for India, says expert

Sulphur dioxide from Caribbean volcano reaches India, WMO confirms

Volcanic emissions reaching the stratosphere can have a cooling effect on global temperatures

Global Eco Watch: Ice Age woolly rhino unearthed in Siberia

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Mammals under threat: 2nd extinction wave underway in Australia, Caribbean

New study predicts 558 species of mammals to be extinct by turn of century

Achieving Zero Hunger by 2030 in doubt, UN report warns

Between 83 million and 132 million people could go hungry in 2020 due to COVID-19, according to the report

Is India headed towards a locust plague

Exceptional summer breeding may prompt swarms to remain in the country through end of year, move east & south

‘Columbus Day is the celebration of genocide’

October 12 is when the United States celebrates Christopher Columbus making landfall in the Caribbean in his 3 caravels. A ‘cacique’ (…

Warmer Atlantic to cause more hurricanes every year: study

A study published in the journal Science says that the warming itself was a combination of natural factors and human-induced climate change

A monster earthquake hits Honduras; Tsunami alert issued in other Caribbean nations

The 7.6 magnitude earthquake rattled windows and shook the mainland, triggering Tsunami fears in surrounding nations

Sustainable lobster harvesting in the Caribbean

The practice of diving deep into the sea to catch lobsters is unsafe for humans and has claimed many lives over the years

Women, children victims of obesity in Latin America and the Caribbean

In more than 20 countries the rate of female obesity is 10 percentage points higher than that of men

Climate change threatens food security in Latin America and the Caribbean

In Central America, the north-east part of Brazil and some areas in the Andean region, temperatures would increase and reduction in precipitation …

Climate change will increase drought intensity, frequency in the Caribbean

Theregion is vulnerable to variable and unpredictable rainfall, a FAO report says

Small tropical islands could become the world's first 100% renewable nations

Expertise in renewables, climate change and resilience, along with a study on the Barbados energy sector, demonstrate the ease with which small …

One in every nine persons in the world goes hungry: UN State of Food Insecurity Report

Asia houses 526 million of the 805 million chronically undernourished people in the world

Hit by slime, Caribbean corals at risk of extinction

Loss of algae grazers could wipe out the corals in the next 20 years

Scientists to study effect of climate change on rainforests

Experiment will take place in El Yunque National Forest

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