07.04.2018 Plastic in organic waste Private households that put plastic materials in their organic waste bins are contributing to environmental pollution. A [...]
31.03.2018 Summary for policymakers of the regional and subregional assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia Biodiversity – the essential variety of life forms on Earth – continues to decline in every [...]
28.03.2018 Study finds direct evidence of exposure of pregnant women to herbicide ingredient The first birth cohort study of its kind has found more than 90 percent of a [...]
27.03.2018 Cutting Carbon Emissions Sooner Could Save 153 Million Lives As many as 153 million premature deaths linked to air pollution could be avoided worldwide this [...]
27.03.2018 Biodiversity and Nature’s Contributions Continue Dangerous Decline, Scientists Warn Biodiversity – the essential variety of life forms on Earth – continues to decline in every [...]
22.03.2018 Danube: Plastic free from the source to the mouth Awareness of a clean Danube has increased in the last years in all neighbouring countries. Diese [...]
21.03.2018 World Water Development Report 2018: Nature-based Solutions for Water Nature-based solutions can play an important role in improving the supply and quality of water and [...]
16.03.2018 Half of plant and animal species at risk from climate change in world’s most important natural places Up to half of plant and animal species in the world’s most naturally rich areas, such [...]
16.03.2018 Lack of Water is Key Stressor for Urban Trees A recent study finds that urban trees can survive increased heat and insect pests fairly well [...]
06.03.2018 Spring Is Springing Earlier in Polar Regions Than Across the Rest of Earth Earth Is Experiencing Earlier Springs, but Nowhere So Much and So Fast as at High Latitudes [...]
03.03.2018 New evidence of nuclear fuel releases found at Fukushima Uranium and other radioactive materials, such as caesium and technetium, have been found in tiny particles [...]
02.03.2018 Environmental groups take legal action to defend EU rules from coal industry attack Coal industry lobbyists, and the owners of the some of Europe’s dirtiest coal plants and mines, [...]
01.03.2018 Air pollutants linked to abnormal fetal growth Chinese mothers who were exposed to a high level of certain air pollutants during pregnancy had [...]
28.02.2018 2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat The 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) finds that air quality is the leading environmental threat to public health. [...]
17.02.2018 Household cleaners are almost as dirty as cars Chemical products that contain compounds refined from petroleum, like household cleaners, pesticides, paints and perfumes, now [...]
09.02.2018 An underestimated threat: land-based pollution with microplastics Tiny plastic particles also present a threat to creatures on land and may have damaging effects [...]