News from the Earth

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...

Earth's living systems as a whole are being compromised. And the more humanity exploits nature in unsustainable ways and undermines its contributions to people, the more we undermine our own wellbeing, security and prosperity.

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.

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...

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...

World Nature Conservation Day is observed on July 28 every year to raise awareness about conserving nature. Much of the crises facing the world li...

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...

We need nature, from beech fronds to brown bears, from streams to single-celled organisms, and its conservation is our future. Nature feeds us, que...