Water Pollution

Technology is often touted as a solution to the world's environmental challenges, but it is also part of the problem: industry executives are facing rising pressure to clean up their energy and resource-intensive business. How much energy, for example, does …

Mr Mohammed Zakari, an environmentalist, on Friday called for more enlightenment of residents on dangers of dumping refuse in rivers. Zakari, who is the Director, African Climate Reporters made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) i…

New Zealanders want more to be done to protect the country's whitebait fishery, with some calling for a ban on sales of the native fish. Almost 3000 people responded to a Department of Conservation survey on whitebait management and 90 per cent said changes…

Tajganj police in Agra lodged the FIR based on a complaint filed by Ankit Kumar Namdev, assistant conservator of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Taj Mahal division. (File photo) Those visiting the Taj Mahal may now compulsorily have to use shoe covers …

This photo series is a story of nature and people. The making was at once both burdensome and awesome. Many months these images haunted my dreams and permeated my thoughts for much of my waking hours. This work used up my strength, time and money. And at each…

Posted May 14, 2019 09:46:13 On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, a United States explorer saw something he could have found in the gutter of nearly any street in the world: rubbish. Key points: The dive went 16 metres lower than …

The world's most polluted capital city is blanketed in a toxic smog of car fumes, agricultural smoke and factory waste most winters, but it is less severe in summer months. PHOTO:AFP/FILE NEW DELHI: New Delhi suffered a rare summer air pollution alert Monda…

By 2030, at its current pace of growth, the fashion industry is expected to be worth $3.3 trillion. It will manufacture 102 million tons of clothes and shoes. For comparison, that is the weight equivalent to a half million blue whales. If nothing changes, the…

By Sharon Kelly, an attorney and freelance writer based in Philadelphia. She has reported for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, National Wildlife, Earth Island Journal, and a variety of other publications. Prior to beginning freelance writing, she…

There's a specific stand of bald cypress trees along the Black River in North Carolina that are some of the oldest trees in the country. Locally known as the Three Sisters Swamp, there are several trees in the group known to be more than 1,000 years old. But…