All at sea

Nitrogen? Warming?

Enough of carbon talks. Heres a new element with potential

Billions of dollars, 50 years later

Small pox vaccine might have countered HIV  

Thar she blows: An ice-free Northwest Passage has enabled the Gray Whale’s return to New England

Last seen in the age of commercial whaling, an ice-free Passage enabled the species to travel from Pacific to Atlantic

UNEA-6: Extraction & use of world’s resources has grown three times more in 50 years

Global Resources Outlook 2024, released on final day of assembly, reveals shocking statistics

Bird flu decimates seabird populations in UK over two years

Slow-breeding seabirds face an uphill battle to recover from significant losses, scientists express deep concern

Migratory species facing peril globally shows report, as CMS COP14 begins in Samarkand

Overexploitation, habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation leading to loss of aquatic, terrestrial and avian migratory species

IPCC Special Report: Climate adaptation needs multi-level support

Adaptation is a local process that needs involvement of local authorities and communities in designing and implementing adaptation policies

US-China fight over fishing is really about world domination

In sending its fishermen far and wide, Beijing has, wittingly or not, followed America’s lead

Native Hawaiian sacred sites have been damaged in the Lahaina wildfires – but their stories will live on

Lahaina is considered the earthly home of Kihawahine, a Native Hawaiian goddess; it was also the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom under Kamehameha …

Droughts in Western US fuel emissions, here’s how

Between 2012 and 2016, a drought-induced spike in fossil fuel generation cost California more than $5 billion in damages

Many provinces experiencing highest emissions since 2003: Scientist monitoring Canadian wildfires

Experts say climate change escalated the fires with the fumes spilling over into to the United States

Wildfires: New York City’s orange skies raise environmental questions

The dystopian orange skies are due to the flames that have been raging north of the US-Canada border

Lethal hypocrisy of US Special 301 Report

Patent protection in the US is a convoluted and expensive business and yet it pulls up other countries that have robust systems

Environmental stewards: Sacred Hopi site in Arizona awarded ICOMOS Water and Heritage Shield

The Hopi consider the Sípàapu on the Little Colorado river to be the place from where their ancestors emerged from another world …

EU follows US by boosting its domestic green industry support, outcome for Global South uncertain

Emerging economies will be nervous about the competitiveness of their manufacturing sectors if this reshoring of clean technologies expands

Devil in the details: Focus on US energy department’s ‘low confidence’ in COVID lab-leak theory is must

A low confidence level generally indicates that the information used in the analysis is scant, questionable, fragmented, or that solid analytical …

FAO acknowledges Indian wheat exports helped in reducing April inflation

There has been some relief in inflation in April according to the Food Price Index of the FAO, released May 6; this relief has been seen in …

Plastic endgame: Did UNEA 5.2 start a new era

The world’s adoption of the resolution to end plastic pollution by 2024 is only the first step in a long battle

175 countries commit to forge internationally binding treaty on plastic pollution by 2024

The resolution establishes an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to complete a draft global legally binding agreement by the end of 2024

WWF Global Futures pushes ‘nature-based solutions’ agenda

They are not only a distraction from reducing consumption and decarbonising all sectors of the domestic economy, but also promise to intensify …

Iowa caucuses did one thing right: Require paper ballots

 Any problems with a paperless election would be impossible to fix, calling into public question the integrity of the whole process, and the …

Is Trump doing what his people want?

Seven in ten registered voters of the United States want the country to participate in the Paris Agreement 

Carbon dioxide emissions in the United States spiked in 2018: study

Emissions surged because of more use of air travel, freight transport by road, burning of fuel oil in winter and increase in the number of …

Just what exactly is a polar vortex?

While the weather phenomenon has acquired currency in international media in the last 2 decades, it is much older than is thought