News from the Earth

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

Saturday, September 19, 2020 is the World cleanup day, a world day dedicated to cleaning the planet from the waste that is flooding it. It is the largest civic action the world has ever seen in which millions of people participate every year, united to achieve a single, important goal: a clean and healthy planet.

The “new normal.” It is an expression that we’ve heard frequently as people and communities around the world have confronted and adapted to a viral...

To turn one of the greatest tragedies in the memory of the country into an opportunity. This is the philosophy that is leading a group of Lebanese citizens in an upcycling project that starts from the rubble of the violent explosions in Beirut on 4 August and ends in the homes of the population.

Ocean plastic pollution originates mostly from land-based sources, such as landfills and manufacturing plants. One recent study estimates that win...

In Canada, the Milne ice shelf, an intact ice shelf for four thousand years, has collapsed due to temperatures 5 degrees C higher than average.

Arizona State University scientists on Monday presented their research on finding micro and nanoplastics in human organs to the American Chemical Society. Greenpeace UK responded to the reporting on the study by calling to massively reduce the amount of plastic produced and used worldwide.  Microplastics are plastics that are less than five millimeters in diameter and nanoplastics are less than 0.001 millimeters in diameter. Both are broken down bits of larger plastic pieces that were dumped into the environment.

Our present course puts humans on track to be among the species that expire in Earth's ongoing sixth mass extinction. The COVID-19 pandemic, along ...

The results of Greenpeace Italy's research on the presence of microplastics in fish and invertebrates, such as mussels and scampi, show that 35% of...

We should reduce the use of plastics by 80% over the next 20 years by applying existing solutions and technologies in order to clean up the seas, b...

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...