Tag: environment

Wildfires worldwide are becoming more devastating, driven by human-caused climate change that is intensifying heatwaves, droughts, and vegetation dryness across continents. Scientists...

Global carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere surged by a record amount in 2024, reaching new highs that commit the planet to...

Developing countries are paying back more in climate finance loan repayments to wealthy nations than they receive in aid, according to new...

Every part of the ocean is now affected by climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, according to the ninth Copernicus Ocean State...

The Ganges River, lifeline for hundreds of millions in South Asia, is drying at a rate scientists call unprecedented. Climate change, erratic...

Municipal wastewater treatment plants are failing to remove many common pharmaceuticals, including the antidepressant fluoxetine (Prozac), allowing these drugs to enter rivers,...

Trees across the Amazon are getting bigger, according to new research published in Nature Plants. The study reveals that the average tree...

The world’s water cycle is becoming increasingly erratic, swinging between devastating floods and severe droughts, according to a new report from the...

A joint research team from the University of Stuttgart in Germany and the University of Melbourne in Australia has developed a straightforward...

Sixty percent of Earth’s land area is now outside the safe biosphere zone. Thirty-eight percent is considered in a high-risk state, a...