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It’s already billed as one of the world’s most challenging competitions, but this year the organizers of the Volvo Ocean Race added an extra dimension to the gruelling 45,000-nautical mile j

Nairobi, 8 October 2018 – Climate scientists have rung the alarm about the urgent need for drastic environmental action to keep global warming from exceeding 1.5°C.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there is still a long way to go if we want to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Our best chance to avoid runaway warming is to act right away to reduce

On 26 September, UN Environment awarded the 2018 Champions and Young Champions of the Earth Awards. Two of the Young Champions, Miranda Wang and Miao Wang, are intervening to prevent marine plastic pollution at different points.

UN Environment and partners are working with businesses to highlight the benefits of biodiversity-sensitive best practices in the mining sector.

Ella – a vibrant and playful Londoner who loved gymnastics, swimming and football – was just nine years old when she died.

New research from C40 Cities, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy and the New Climate Institute shows that climate action, such as doubling bus network coverage and frequency in cities, could prevent the premature deaths of over

UN Environment conducts a five-day training workshop for 26 national experts from Iraq’s ministries of environment and oil. Workshop strengthens national capacity to assess and clean-up oil-contaminated sites from the conflict in Ira

Emmanuel Macron, President of France and Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, are recognized in the Policy Leadership category for their pioneering work in championing the International Solar Alliance and promoting new areas of levels of coopera

To launch the UN Environment's Global Plastics Platform, UN Environment and the European Commission hosted an event alongside the UN General Assembly. The network will encourage new commitments to reduce plastic pollution and,su

UN Environment and Boston College established a new research partnership to focus on reducing sources of pollution that kill 9 million people each year. Pollution is linked to a myriad of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, in

When Chakravorty, a 31-year-old journalist at the Indian Express, discovered that plastic pollution is so pervasive that it affects our food supply, he was shocked.

Doñana National Park in southwestern Spain contains one of the largest wetlands in Western Europe.

“I spent the first 10 years of my life travelling in dogsled, fishing for food,” says Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuk from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, in Northern Quebec, Canada.

In the crowded classroom, a music class is underway. The sounds of flutes and shakers, gradually becoming more synchronized with practice, fill the air.

The city of Hangzhou in eastern China was once described by the Italian explorer Marco Polo as the, “finest and most splendid city in the world”.

A new report draws on the climate change mitigation experiences of a number of countries to highlight “win-win” options for Ethiopia and Kenya.

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Pakistani customs officers trained by UN Environment are responsible for a massive seizure of R-22 (also known as HCFC-22) refrigerant, a powerful ozone-depleting substance and greenhouse gas.

The Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, operational since early 2018, is starting to return high resolution maps of air polluting gases that are invisible to the human eye.