The Copernicus service has released data for the first eleven months of 2025: global warming is set to come close to last ...

The European Council and Parliament have reached an agreement on the European Commission’s proposal to deregulate new GMOs.

Much like death, extinction is part of life, an inevitable, natural phenomenon that has occurred cyclically throughout our planet’s history. Approximately 99 per cent of species that have walked the ...

Some of the earliest formulations of the idea come from Ancient Greece: South African philosopher David Benatar quotes the Greek tragedian Sophocles and the text of Ecclesiastes in his book Better ...

To date, over 1,600 human remains have been excavated from burial grounds across Hokkaido. Rarely engaging with local communities in obtaining their free, prior and informed consent, this has caused ...

In 1674, residents of Fiesch, a village in the Swiss canton of Valais at the feet of the Greater Aletsch Glacier – the largest in the European Alps – established a Catholic ritual to ask the heavens ...

How much more CO2 can we emit? Scientists have made different calculations to work out how much of the carbon budget humanity still has at its disposal. A think tank called MCC, using data from the ...

The island of Tuvalu is the first to call for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty at COP27. In 2015, Vanuatu made demands for such a treaty following the devastation caused by cyclone Pam. For now, ...

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has doubled its export of tropical timber to international markets in just ten years, contributing three to four million cubic metres of timber every single year since 2010. The ...

In May 2016 the Women’s Association for the Development of Sacatepéquez (AFEDES), a grassroots movement against gender inequality in Guatemala, brought a motion to the Constitutional Court that ...

Isatou Ceesay is a 41-year-old social entrepreneur and the Director of the Gambia Women’s Initiative (WIG), based in the village of N’Jau, 681 kilometres (423 miles) away from the Gambian capital ...

Tarun Chowdhury resides in the area. Until a few months ago, the 40-year-old used to venture deep inside the forest and risk his life due to the considerable tiger population to catch crabs, fish and ...