Climate & Environment

Iraq’s environment
Every year millions of pilgrims visit Iraq’s holy sites. Most people use plastic bottles and disposable cutlery resulting in millions of pieces of plastic headed ..

Global Earth Day
The European Union has pledged at least a 55 percent cut compared to 1990 levels, while the UK promised 68 percent. Biden has pledged to ..

Combating global warming
Oceans absorb nearly 93 percent of the carbon dioxide released by human activities since 1970.

US/China/Climate
China’s special climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, will meet with Kerry in Shanghai and the two will exchange views on COP 26.

Fukushima water
Concerns remain among Japan’s fisheries industry and consumers as well as neighboring countries such as South Korea and China.

Clean energy
Al Jazeera has discovered that in the case of NYC, reliance on fossil fuels is expected to increase in the coming year due to the ..

Somalia bleak report
Save the Children says $150m is needed to provide food, health, education, water, and sanitation to almost 2m people through the next 6 months.

UAE Climate Conference
The goal is to ‘develop… climate action priorities’ ahead of the Nov 2021 COP meeting in Glasgow.

Endangered species
The number of African forest elephants fell by more than 86% over a period of 31 years, while the population of African savanna elephants decreased ..

Australia floods
It came after the Warragamba Dam, which provides much of the drinking water for Sydney, spilled over Saturday afternoon – causing officials to warn the ..

The devastating impact of nuclear tests
France conducted 193 nuclear tests from 1966 to 1996 at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in French Polynesia, including 41 atmospheric tests until 1974 that exposed ..

Fukushima 10th-anniversary
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami triggered the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl at Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, 220km north-east of ..