One World – One Environment – One Network
Tropical peat swamp forests, which once occupied large swaths of Southeast Asia and other areas, provided a significant “sink” that helped remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But such forests have been disappearing fast...
Award-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has unveiled his latest design for what is set to become the world’s tallest hybrid timber structure. There’s something of a competition going on for the title of the...
An ecological art project is giving New Yorkers a taste of garden heaven. The only catch: it’s on a barge. The project aims to get city dwellers to think about the relationship between humans...
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have launched an initiative to share with other countries their success on tackling issues like green solutions, gender equality, food and welfare. While the US president Donald Trump...
A new WHO report highlights how tobacco threatens the development of nations worldwide by causing widespread poverty and large-scale environmental degradation. The health costs of tobacco are already well known. According to the WHO,...
The international consumer goods company Unilever is teaming up with researchers in Germany to pilot an innovative technology to recycle sachet waste. Plastic recycling protects the environment and is good for a company’s bottom...
Scientists have discovered that a beach on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific is strewn with nearly 38 million pieces of plastic, transported there by powerful ocean currents. By 2050, there could be...
The 26th Governing Council of UN-Habitat came to a successful conclusion on Friday. Highlights included a USD 11 million commitment for improving life in slums and a new housing profile for Afghanistan to cope with...
The Ocean Cleanup announced that it will start removing plastic waste from the Pacific Ocean within the next 12 months, two years earlier than planned. Design improvements will cut the cleanup time in half....
An international study has overturned the assumption that mineral resource deposits will be depleted within a few decades, arguing that as yet undiscovered resources will be enough to supply future generations. Future shortages will...
New research from the University of British Columbia shows that recycling and composting rates can jump by up to 141 per cent if bins are placed 1.5 metres away from doors. Convenience is a...
Nearly two billion people worldwide are at risk of contracting cholera, dysentery, typhoid or polio from drinking contaminated water. World health authorities are calling for a ‘radical’ increase in water and sanitation investments. Countries...
More and more species are migrating towards cooler regions in response to climate change. This is having a noticeable impact on humankind as the migration includes disease-transmitting insects and crop-destroying pests. Barbara Barkhausen reports...
New Zealand’s most recent citizen has been living in the country for thousands of years. Its name is the Whanganui River and it is, indeed, a river. The legal innovation comes from the Maori...
This year’s winners of the World Habitat Awards are a Swiss cooperative housing project and an African vaulted roof-building technique. The projects were praised for providing people-led solutions to global housing issues. The Zurich...
Cities around the world are setting goals to curb climate change. Oftentimes these exceed national targets set by the Paris Agreement, causing tensions with central governments. More than 2,500 cities worldwide have formally issued...
The low-lying Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean has become the first country to ratify a global deal to slash the use of hydrofluorocarbons, a powerful greenhouse gas. The Kigali amendment to the Montreal...
The 100 Resilient Cities network is helping cities around the world cope with some of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Dakar has become the first of eleven African cities to introduce a...
A team of researchers has invented a new technology to produce car tires from biomass like trees and grasses. The process could transform the tire production industry toward using renewable resources found in our...
The organic market in Europe grew by double digits in 2015, reaching close to EUR 30 billion. Germany is the largest organic market in Europe, but Switzerland has the highest per capita consumption of...
