King Charles III visited 50 Scouts and Girl Guides on Nyali Beach in southeastern Kenya, during last week’s royal visit, highlighting the work of the Tide Turners, a global United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)-led youth movement to combat plastic pollution.
Negotiators will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, from 13-19 November for the latest in a series of talks designed to forge a legally binding global instrument to end plastic pollution.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest global health threats.
It is October 2013, and Rimiko Yoshinaga is standing behind a podium in Minamata, Japan, gazing at an auditorium packed with world leaders.
Silence descends upon the room as she begins recounting how a mysterious illness had killed her father decades earlier.
For two decades, paint maker Universal Colors has churned out an assortment of paints and industrial coatings from a small factory in Callao, Peru. Over time, the company has worked to weed out lead, a toxic chemical, from its products. But two varieties of paint proved to be especially problematic to reformulate, including one yellow epoxy paint.
In many ways, chemicals have become the unsung heroes of progress. They have made farming more productive, medicines more effective and sanitation more widespread, improving countless lives.
The splash was so loud that environmental advocate Lewis Pugh thought someone had jumped off the bridge he was swimming under. But then Pugh, in the midst of a month-long swim down the United States’ Hudson River, saw what had joined him in the water: a bald eagle.
“This majestic creature spread its wings and lifted up right in front of us. I will never forget the sight of it,” says Pugh.
The message from this year’s International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, held on 7 September, is that the fight against air pollution needs a global response.
The International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, held annually on 7 September, aims to raise awareness and mobilize global action to address air pollution, which United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres recently called a “global emergency.”
Anyone who happens to be walking by New York State’s Hudson River in the next two weeks may see a figure heading downstream wearing a white swimming cap emblazoned with the logo of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
This is Lewis Pugh, an English-South African endurance swimmer who is aiming to navigate the 517km-long Hudson with mostly goggles, Speedos and that swimming cap.
