Air pollution now directly affects 99% of the world
Nearly everybody in the world is breathing in air pollution, says the United Nations. On Monday, the U.N. health...
A new IPCC report says we are hurtling toward extinction
Climate change is worsening. Consequently, humanity's window to survive as a species is quickly closing, according...
G20 nations subsidized $3 trillion in fossil fuels since Paris agreement
A report by BloombergNEF and Bloomberg Philanthropies shows that G20 countries have continued subsidizing fossil...
UN outlines biodiversity plan to reverse climate change
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (U.N. CBD) has set out a plan to reverse ecological destruction,...
UN launches program to reverse "triple environmental emergency"
Last Friday, the United Nations launched the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a program that aims to restore...
UN warns that humans will lose their war against nature
Fiction writing students learn about the handful of archetypal plots, including man versus nature. Usually that...
UN releases World Water Development Report 2020
Climate change further challenges the world’s overstretched water resources, ultimately threatening all aspects...
UN lists plastic as hazardous waste, votes to control international trade
On May 10, 187 countries voted to list plastic as hazardous waste and tighten control over its international trade....
1 million species are at risk of extinction, says new UN report
A new study released Monday by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services reports...
New credit card limits spending based on carbon emissions
This Spring, the Swedish financial tech company Doconomy launched the first ever banking service and credit card...
Even scientists are shocked by the latest UN report on climate change
According to a Monday report on climate change from the United Nations, maintaining the Earth's temperature rise...
Mountain Heroes cyclist aims for world record to fight climate change
Michael Strasser, famous cyclist and the first cyclist to join the UN Environment's Mountain Heroes campaign,...
UN Environment and Yale present a sustainable tiny home in NYC
U.N. Environment and Yale University’s School of Architecture has unveiled an innovative tiny home that explores...
UN releases first "state of plastics" report on World Environment Day
The United Nations has released its first-ever global plastics report on June 5th, World Environment Day. Well-timed...
Substantial swaths of globe face desertification without climate action - new study
Limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels could reduce desertification...
