Green Planet

Governments need to act to encourage plastic recycling markets

Plastic recycling is failing to reach its full potential as low recovery rates of plastic waste, poor quality of recycled plastic and a lack...

Planet Junk: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?

Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were...

Women leaders come together to fight climate change

Climate change affects everyone, but certain demographics and groups are at greater risk. One such demographic is women, who are more likely than men...

Africa’s Answer to Climate and Weather Challenges: The Africa Hydromet Program

Tesfaye, a grain and legume farmer in rural Ethiopia, takes a break from guiding his grazing cattle to analyze the skies in Chanco, north...

New Report Looks at Past Disasters to Prepare for the Future

The great disasters of the past – like the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD or the hurricane that devastated Santo Domingo in 1930...

90 per cent of the planet is breathing in polluted air

Air pollution claims seven million lives a year, UN health experts said on Wednesday, amid new data showing that the problem affects nine out...

Kyrgyzstan advances forest monitoring in support of the Sustainable Development Goals

For the second time under the UNECE/FAO project “Accountability Systems for Sustainable Forest Management in the Caucasus and Central Asia”, Kyrgyz stakeholders met to...

Reducing Carbon Emissions, Let Soil and Trees Do the Dirty Work

By now, most of us are familiar with the role forests play in absorbing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are accelerating climate...

Building a Climate-Resilient South Asia

Last summer’s monsoon hit South Asia particularly hard and left nearly 1,400 people dead and displaced millions of others. In the last sixty years, such...

New Satellite Animations of Earth Show How Quickly Humans Are Changing the Planet

A new website that combines dramatic images from space with expert analysis of how humans are changing the planet will launch on World Earth...

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