Category: Environment & Sustainability

Researchers from the University of Portsmouth are aiming to develop solutions to limit the harmful effects of microplastics on the environment and human health.

Last year joined the list of the seven warmest years on record, the UN weather agency said on Wednesday, and was also the seventh consecutive year when the global temperature has been more than 1°C above pre-industrial levels; edging closer to the limit laid out under the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Swirling river waters can trap lightweight microplastics that otherwise might be expected to float – depositing them in riverbeds where it can take up to seven years to transport them just a kilometre further towards the ocean, a new study reveals.

Geneva, Switzerland// – Climate risks dominate global concerns as the world enters the third year of the pandemic.

The European mixed plastic waste market is expected to further tighten in 2022 amid growing use of mixed-polyolefins grades by mechanical recyclers and increased use of refuse derived fuel (RDF)-suitable reject bales by pyrolysis-based chemical recyclers.

Nairobi, Kenya and Washington, D.C, U.S// – The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) today announced that it backs a U.S. State Department move to impose Visa Restrictions on eight Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) nationals, who are known to be involved in trafficking illegal wildlife, wildlife parts and products.

Stockholm, Sweden//-Normative, the world’s first carbon emission accounting engine, is launching a service to help companies reach net zero with science-based climate investments.

A flare-up in intercommunal fighting in northern Cameroon has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and brought a halt to aid operations there, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday. 

The broad net zero emissions targets agreed at Cop26 are too amorphous. African negotiators need to push for measurable targets based on ambitious African development scenarios.

Music, dance, art and storytelling have allowed an international team of researchers to reveal aspects of air pollution in Nairobi that would not have been identified otherwise.