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Joshua Wowo discovered and secured 1,400 boxes of DDT in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province. Now he waits for the day when his township’s toxic timebomb will finally be defused.

Paper cones, called “cucuruchos”, have been traditionally used by shoppers in Mexico City for carrying spices and grains.

If cities like Delhi, Lagos, Sao Paolo and Tokyo seem populated today, think what they’ll be like by 2050.

From whale sharks to Monarch butterflies, many animals are hardwired to migrate along set routes in search of food or a breeding area—and in some cases they’ve been doing this for tens of millions of years.

Globally, over 4,2 million premature deaths per year can be attributed to outdoor air pollution, with the majority occurring in lower- and middle-income countries.

Abu Dhabi, 10 February 2020 - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), together with UN-Habitat and IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company, today launched the world’s largest air quality data platform, bringing toget

In mid-February, government representatives from across the African continent will come together in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo to work towa

In the two years since Mariama Mamane won the Young Champions of the Earth prize back in 2017, she has taken great strides in her mission to provide people in

“The smell alone when you cross the bridge tells you something’s wrong,” says Renison Ruwa, deputy director of the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute.

The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is considered to be among the worst in the world. In 2019, 80 per cent of Yemen’s people were in need—an estimated 24 million people.

A new global study sheds light on how interactions between specific characteristics of catchments, such as carbon and pollution, affect aquatic plant diversity and function in freshwater environments.

World Wetlands Day marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971 in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea.

At the beginning of this decade, millions of people around the world made new year’s resolutions, with the hope of bettering themselves. 

Every year, billions of people go on holiday to escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

What does it take to get the world’s attention on climate change? Lewis Pugh thinks swimming across a supra-glacial lake in East Antarctica might.

Pollution contributes to the death of millions of people every year. The UN Environment Assembly, the world's highest-level decision-making body on the environment, gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, from 4-6 December 2017 under the overarching theme of pollution.

Pollution contributes to the death of millions of people every year. The UN Environment Assembly, the world's highest-level decision-making body on the environment, gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, from 4-6 December 2017 under the overarching theme of pollution.

Pollution contributes to the death of millions of people every year. The UN Environment Assembly, the world's highest-level decision-making body on the environment, gathered in Nairobi, Kenya, from 4-6 December 2017 under the overarching theme of pollution.

Multilateral Environmental Agreements

50 examples of focused and actionable policy options