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As the world continues its recovery from COVID-19, tourism, one of the industries hardest hit by the pandemic, has the opportunity to set itself on a greener, more sustainable path.

Catastrophic floods have hit Pakistan in recent weeks that have killed over 1,000 people, displaced close to 500,000 and impacted the lives of over 30 million residents.

Nairobi, 21 October 2021 – A drastic reduction in unnecessary, avoidable and problematic plastic is crucial to addressing the global pollution crisis, according to a comprehensive assessment released today by the UN Environment Pro

This year has been a watershed in the human rights movement, with the right to a healthy environment finally being recognized.

This month’s oil spill in California and the sinking of the X-Press Pearl off the coast of

When world leaders attend the make-or-break United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland in a few weeks,

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Runners, think you can cover more ground in 10 days than a wild mountain lion? Come 24 September 2021, you’ll be able to find out.

Report Shows 75% of retrieved items were plastic Top items include cigarette butts, food wrappers and beverage bottles Washington, D.C.

For people across the developing world, there is often no escape from water pollution. Tens of millions live alongside rivers choked with sewage, lakes filled with farm run-off and canals brimming with industrial toxins.

On 9 December 1921 at a General Motors laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, chemists poured a teaspoonful of a compound called tetraethyl lead into a spasming motor.

Since the Green Revolution of the 1950s, agricultural innovations, like synthetic fertilizers, chemical pesticides and high-yield cereal crops, have created an abundance of low-cost food.

Nairobi, 7 September 2021 – The world today marked the second International Day of Clean Air for blue skies under the theme Healthy Air, Healthy Planet, which highlights the link between air quality and planetary and human

One of the most terrifying things about the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic was the realization that the air we breathe could also make us sick.

Nairobi, 7 September 2021 – The UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company, has developed the first r

Nairobi, 7 September 2021 – A global review of policies and programmes to improve air quality shows that over the past five years more countries have adopted policies on all major polluting sectors.

This year, Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, will begin deploying the first of 1,485 electric buses to replace the diesel vehicles that now dominate its public transit system.

Nairobi, 7 September 2021 – Digital billboards around the Kenyan capital today started to live stream Nairobi’s real-time air pollution in an effort to increase air quality awarenes

Most emissions have fallen in Western, Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe since 2010 Hotspots remain in the Balkans and Central Asia, and air quality levels remain dangerous throughout region, but low-cost solutions are at han