Category: Environment

7th November 2019

Top Secret Israeli Oil Firm to Pay $30m for Catastrophic Spill in Landmark Case

In 2014, some 5 million litres of crude oil leaked into the Evrona Nature Reserve in what is considered to be one of Israel’s worst ecological disasters Israel’s state-owned Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company will pay 100...

Environment

16th October 2019

Japan typhoon death toll climbs to 74, rescuers search for missing people

Rescue workers in Japan searched for the missing on Wednesday as the death toll from one of the worst typhoons to hit the country rose to 74, public broadcaster NHK said, many drowned by...

Environment / Japan

12th October 2019

The Century’s Strongest Typhoon Hagibis is about to hit Japan

Japan issued its highest level of emergency rainfall warnings for Tokyo and many surrounding areas on Saturday and advised more than five million people to evacuate their homes to avoid landslides and flooding, as...

Climate / Environment / Opinion

11th September 2019

India must stop deforesting its mountains if it wants to fight floods

Floods are now an annual nightmare in many parts of southern and western India. Valleys in the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala that weren’t considered flood-prone until recently are at risk. During floods and landslides...

Opinion / Environment

28th August 2019

The Amazon Fires: What do they tell us about nationalism and minority exploitation?

Last year, the far-right populist leader, Jair Bolsonaro, was elected as the President of Brazil in a narrow victory against his more leftist rival, Fernando Haddad. Bolsonaro ran his presidential campaign with a fervent...

Environment

27th March 2019

Space junk: How big is the problem and what are we going to do about it?

Few humans have ever stepped foot in space but as a species we’ve already managed to make a mess of Earth’s backyard. Space junk from satellites and rockets is crowding out spacecraft and telecommunication...

Climate / Environment

21st February 2019

Climate Change: Obsession with plastic pollution distracts attention from bigger environmental challenges

By now, most of us have heard that the use of plastics is a big issue for the environment. Partly fuelled by the success of the BBC’s Blue Planet II series, people are more aware...

Environment / SDG

18th February 2019

Polar bear ‘invasion’: how climate change is making human-wildlife conflicts worse

The ten hottest years on record were all during the past two decades and the hottest global ocean temperatures ever were recorded in 2018 – a heat increase from 2017 equivalent to 100 million times that of the Hiroshima...

Environment

17th February 2019

Electronic waste is recycled in appalling conditions in India

The world produces 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) per year, according to a recent UN report, but only 20% is formally recycled. Much of the rest ends up in a...