News from the Earth

The European Week for Waste Reduction represents the main and widest information and awareness campaign of European citizens about the impact of waste production on the environment. 

The food we eat is a huge indicator of our health. Eating cleanly and simply, exposing your body to as few toxic pollutants as possible, will benefit your wellbeing.

Litter is more than just a mark on our landscape. Litter is costly to clean up, impacts our quality of life and economic development, and eventually ends up in our waterways and oceans. 

There is only one species responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic: us.

To avoid future epidemics, we must act on prevention, to safeguard human health through the protection of ecosystems and biodiversity, by reducing intensive agriculture and livestock farming, indiscriminate exploitation of forests and natural habitats, trade in wildlife.

The new restrictions to contain the pandemic force us to spend much more time at home, which we may be using to take even more care of ourselves an...

Plastic manufacturing in the first ten years of this century eclipsed the total produced in the entire last century: now we're producing – and discarding – almost 360 million tons a year. Its components harm people and the environment. 

Millions of stacks and tailpipes in cities around the world send up 70% of the carbon dioxide ejected into the atmosphere by human beings. 461 mayors, including those of some of the U.S.'s largest cities, have joined Climate Mayors. They're pledging to uphold the goals of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.

It turns out that for decades the recyclability of plastics was grossly oversold by the plastics industry. Unfortunately, just placing your plastic into the recycling bin doesn't mean it will get recycled. The recycling system is complicated and often dictated by market demand. Not all plastic is recyclable. We cannot recycle plastic bags or straws for example.

Plastics is everywhere: in our homes exactly as it is in the Planet (the world production of plastics has increased from 2.3 million tons in 1950 to 448 million tons in 2015). On the tops of the highest mountains as well as on the bottom of the oceans. It is estimated that 15 tons of plastic waste per minute is thrown into the sea. This means 8 million tons per year.

"We are in a state of planetary emergency," the 65 leaders, who include German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...

Selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true. If the public thinks the recycling is working, then they're not going to be as concerned about the environment.

The International Day of Peace ("Peace Day") is observed around the world each year on 21 September.