News from the Earth

Microplastics are contaminating the fruit and vegetables we eat, according to two separate scientific studies published this week.   According to t...

The response to the global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus has seen many states and countries reverse course on their efforts to reduce th...

For decades, the tobacco industry has deliberately employed strategic, aggressive and well-resourced tactics to attract youth to tobacco and nicoti...

One hundred and two sea turtles inhabiting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Mediterranean Sea were the subject of the study by the Universit...

Without natural capital we have no chance of well-being, health and development.May 22 is the day called by the United Nations to celebrate B...

Today, May 14th, is the Overshoot Day in Italy, the ninth country for excess of consumption of natural resources. Overshoot Day marks the date when...

When beaches in Florida reopened last week, people flocked to them to absorb the sun, sand and water. Unfortunately, many forgot to take their tras...

Despite the crisis and the reduction in consumption, 17% of the fruit and vegetables purchased, 15% of the fish, 28% of pasta and bread, 29% of egg...

End of waste is the “list” of the criteria for which a waste ceases to be considered as such and is considered as “matter” or “product”, refers to ...

"More the waste, better the taste," the Garbage Café opened in Ambikapur, in the state of Chhattisgarh. A project from the municipal council, the café offers a hearty meal for one kilogram of collected plastic.

According to the study carried out by several researchers, there are at least 116 species which eat plastics.

Of these, 59% are fish that end up on our tables such as red mullet, cod, tuna, sea bream, sardines, shrimp and prawns. The remaining 41% includes other mammals, crustaceans and molluscs, as well as jellyfish, turtles and birds.

There are solution-seekers like Fionn Ferreira, an 18 year-old Irish wunderkind, who won the grand prize at the 2019 Google Science Fair for creati...