On 24 August at 13:00 local time, the first release of tritiated water started from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Japan, into the Pacific Ocean. This was the first of many, as it will ...

Instead of turning a blind eye to the problem, she decided to be part of the solution. Armed with a background in materials engineering and a passion for sustainability, Nzambi founded the ‘ Gjenge ...

On 22 March 2023, the European Commission advanced a proposal for a Directive on Green Claims. Authored by the EU Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV), which is responsible for ...

Isatou Ceesay is a 41-year-old social entrepreneur and the Director of the Gambia Women’s Initiative (WIG), based in the village of N’Jau, 681 kilometres (423 miles) away from the Gambian capital ...

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, South Africa’s state-owned coal-fired energy utility, has been called the world’s worst polluting energy company. The firm is based 294 kilometres from the capital Johannesburg ...

Nicole Menemene is the 30-year-old Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Plastycor, a commercial establishment that recycles old plastic waste collected from lakeshores and dumpsites to make baskets, ...

Kabwe is a small town located 150 kilometres (95 miles) away from the Zambian capital, Lusaka. In 1902, rich deposits of lead were discovered in Kabwe. In 1906, active mining and smelting operations ...

Stop to new oil and gas exploration Gustavo Petro, elected president of Colombia in the summer of 2022, promised during his campaign to put an end to the country’s dependence on fossil resources. In ...

Lake Kariba, formed by the Kariba Dam, is the largest man-made lake in the world. The double-curvature concrete dam has an estimated height of 128m with a crest length of 617m and has the capacity to ...

In 2022, new species of plants and animals were discovered, all of which were already extant but had stayed very well hidden. According to our best estimates, we only know about 10 per cent of ...

The island of Tuvalu is the first to call for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty at COP27. In 2015, Vanuatu made demands for such a treaty following the devastation caused by cyclone Pam. For now, ...

On February 9, 2022, Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación) ordered the stoppage of the Port of Veracruz expansion project, protecting the local ...