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Lilly, Thailand's Greta Thunberg, wages 'war' on plastic
Thailand is the sixth-largest global contributor to ocean pollution, and plastic is a scourge.
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Teenage activist Greta Thunberg takes climate protest to Trump
Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who shot to global fame for inspiring worldwide student strikes to promote action against climate change, took her mission to US President Donald Trump’s doorstep on Friday with a protest outside the White House.
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Hundreds of schools shut as forest-fire haze blankets SE Asia
Massive jungle areas in Sumatra and Borneo island are ablaze as thousands of personnel battle to quell the fires, frequently started to clear land for crop plantations.
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Madagascar forest destruction wiping out our tiniest relative
Frustrated conservationists hope Friday’s arrival of the environmentally-conscious Pope Francis will spotlight the island that lost 2% of primary rainforest last year, the highest of any tropical nation.
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Australia downgrades outlook for Great Barrier Reef to 'very poor'
The government's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority singled out rising sea temperatures as the biggest threat to the giant organism.
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Brazil bans burning for two months to defuse Amazon crisis
The blazes that have engulfed parts of the world's largest rainforest - which is crucial for maintaining a stable global climate - have also sparked a diplomatic spat between Brazil and Europe that threatens to torpedo a major trade deal.
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'Take care of your home, colonies': Brazil slams G7 aid offer amid Amazon fires
Nearly 80,000 forest fires have broken out in Brazil since the beginning of the year - just over half of them in the massive Amazon basin that regulates part of Earth's carbon cycle and climate.
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Fires across South America in 2019 so far
Graphic showing fires that have been detected in South American countries so far this year.
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G7 pledges millions to fight Amazon fires
Nearly 80,000 forest fires have been detected in Brazil since the beginning of the year -- just over half of them in the massive Amazon basin.
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UK pledges £10 mn for fire-ravaged Amazon
The money would be made available immediately to help restore the habitat, including areas that have been hit by the fires, the British government said in a statement released at the G7 summit in the French resort of Biarritz.
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'Save our oceans,' Oscar winner Bardem tells UN
The Spaniard, a keen environmental activist, called on countries to agree to a treaty that would protect at least 30% of seas by 2030.
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg sets sail for NYC
The 16-year-old Swede, whose school strikes have inspired children across the world to protest against global warming, refuses to fly because of the carbon emissions caused by planes.
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Don't have a cow! London uni bans beef
Professor Frances Corner, the new head of Goldsmiths, said that she was taking the drastic action to pull beef from campus cafes and shops from next month because 'declaring a climate emergency cannot be empty words'.
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Can we eat Big Macs and still avoid climate chaos?
More than half of today's food-related emissions come from the animal sector, and half of that from sheep and, most of all, cattle.
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UN flags need to cut meat to curb land use impact on global warming
Plant-based foods and sustainable animal-sourced food could free up several million square kilometers of land by 2050 and cut 0.7-8.0 gigatonnes a year of carbon dioxide equivalent, according to a UN report.
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Mapping global levels of water scarcity by country
Map showing levels of water stress by country, according to the World Resources Institute's Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas.
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World leaders must prove they've listened to climate activists - Thunberg
World leaders have an opportunity at the climate summit in September in New York to address the 'ecological emergency', said the Swedish teenager, who will attend the UN talks, crossing the Atlantic by boat.
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Earth's 2019 resources 'budget' spent by 29 July: report
The so-called Earth Overshoot Day has moved up by two months over the past 20 years and this year's date is the earliest ever, the study by the Global Footprint Network said.
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Climate records fall as Europe bakes in heatwave
An all-time high was measured in Germany for a second day running, at 41.5 degrees Celsius in the northwestern town of Lingen - similar temperatures to those in some Gulf Arab capitals on Thursday.
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Europe's record-setting heatwave to spike even higher
Thursday was forecast to be the peak of Europe's latest heatwave - the second in less than a month and impetus for new focus to be given to climate change.
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Duke and Duchess of Sussex urge fans to 'save the planet'
Each month, the royal couple use their Instagram account to follow a select group of people involved with a particular cause or initiative and for July, the pair - who have eight-week-old son Archie together - are backing those who are working to protect the environment.
