Two non-profit organisations in the United States, alongside the private research Duke University in North Carolina, have spent the last three years monitoring the actions of gas and oil companies in the western Amazon.

Over 4 million hectares of forest, an area approximately the size of Switzerland, is being lost to logging in Africa every year, a rate which is double that of the worlds average for deforestation. A recently published United Nations atlas uses satellite images taken decades apart to show that overpopulation, growth of cities, climate change, [...]

The plastic bag ban is moving slowly but surely in the UK where citizens are replacing the plastic with renewable canvas. But countries such as China are still struggling to follow suit and enforce the ban on plastic bags. The 1.3 billion people who reside in Beijing still stride up and down markets gathering bag [...]

Mexico City is suffering from dangerous amounts of pollutants that are affecting citizens’ sense of smell, scientists say. The pollution has forced government officials to send warnings for citizens to stay inside and often turns the sky to a blurry yellow haze.
Mexico City is a teeming metropolis where 20 million people reside and 4 million [...]

The European Commission has discovered that serious damage is being done to environmental areas of interests due to a lack of proper regulation over tourism. Damage in the areas includes the decrease of preservation of biodiversity. The commission has developed a system to protect the wildlife and habitats in these areas but still allows visitors [...]

Green advertising rules made up by the EU are keeping advertisers on their toes and could hurt the car advertisement industry officials said this week.
Within months, those glossy, sexy advertisements for luxury cars seen on every other page of magazines will likely be forced to show their real colors with climate hazard alerts. The print [...]

In a dried-out lake bed, surrounded by mountains, the high-altitude air of Mexico City remembers the pollution caused by its citizens below, and lingers around them day in and day out. The city is one of the most polluted in the world, with 300 days each year exceeding the World Health Organization’s standards on acceptable [...]

China’s plastic bag usage is phenomenal, even for a country with the population of 1.3 billion. Three billion plastic bags are used every day in China, amounting to 1.6 million tonnes each year. The Chinese government wants to reduce this amount to 1.1 million tonnes per year, with limits on packaging coming into force on [...]

The dreadful weather of 2007 has caused serious pollution on many of Britain’s beaches. Heavy storms swept sewage, street debris and animal waste down to the sea, resulting in 52 of the Good Beach Guide’s 500 excellent beaches losing their premier certification. In addition to this, the number of coastal areas that failed to meet [...]

Nano technology “kitchen towel” may become the greener alternative to bombs and detergent as a remedy for oil spills as researchers invent the super-absorbent membrane.
The “kitchen towel” is a wafer-thin sheet made from nanowires and acts as a kind of blotting paper which can absorb oils and other impurities. The sheet itself can absorb up [...]