The government has announced the creation of 27 marine conservation zones (MCZs) around the English coasts, falling far short of the 127 reserves recommended by the...
Avoidable food and drink waste in the UK has fallen by 21% since 2007, but households are still wasting 4.2 million tonnes of food every year,...
Our oceans are littered with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of discarded fishing nets, posing a major threat to sea life everywhere. In an effort to...
An international initiative aiming to stop ‘ghost fishing’ has celebrated its first success after retrieving 20 tonnes of discarded fishing nets from the bottom of the...
It makes an unlikely poster boy, but the blobfish, a rarely seen species of deep-sea fish, has been voted the ‘world’s ugliest animal’ and adopted as...
Yann Arthus-Bertand’s Home takes viewers on a journey above 50 countries in order to provide a new way of looking at the world and the impact...
The Taiwanese government has raised concerns over a long-running radioactive leak, amid controversy over a similar incident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Taiwan Power...
Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe has said that the government is ready to help fund plans to stop the spill of radioactive water that is leaking...
A comprehensive study of divers and anglers has found that protecting marine habitats around the UK will bring about significant economic benefits, as well as preserving...
A Russian delegation supported by Ukraine has contested the creation of two large sanctuaries in Antarctica on legal grounds, saying that the Commission for the Conservation...
Today is World Oceans Day. Canada first proposed the event at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. It was celebrated unofficially every year on the...
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) recently picked out six sectors, and the ‘greening’ of which can ensure long-term prosperity for developing countries: agriculture, fisheries, forests, manufacturing, renewable...
People in developing countries are having to deal with the increasingly dangerous threat posed by mercury, according to research by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)....
Plans to build a £30 billion tidal barrage across the river Severn have been put into doubt, after a new report claimed that a mixture of...
Marks and Spencer and the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) spent last week cleaning up the UK’s beaches, rivers and canals with great success. As previously reported...