News from the Earth

Limiting global warming to 1.5℃ requires cutting global emissions by 7.6% each year this decade. This does sound difficult, but there are reasons f...

A herdsman in the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia was diagnosed with the bubonic plague. Mongolian health authorities are also investig...

Global environmental change   Large-scale and global environmental hazards to human health include climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion,...

20 May is World Bee Day, established by the United Nations on 20 December 2017 and celebrated for the first time on 20 May 2018.  Without bees the ...

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...

At the behest of student activist raising awareness about the climate crisis, universities around the world have recently been pulling their inves...

Try to think about the consequences of what we do every day: what we eat, what we buy, where the products come from. And try to learn something new...

For forests, it really does help to be young. British scientists who have identified the vital factor that shows what makes a forest a good carbon ...

More than 500 organizations from over 50 countries around the world have launched an Earth Day call for a new start in the name of environmental su...

The enormous challenges — but also the vast opportunities — of acting on climate change have distinguished the issue as the most pressing topic for...

Fear, anxiety, irritability. And again, mental confusion, frustration, boredom: as certified by a review published in The Lancet magazine that comp...

According to the United States Agency for International Development, about 75% of all emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic – m...