environment

Canada can reduce its single-use plastic each year by one-third, or 720,000 tonnes, according to a new report from Oceana Canada. Breaking the Plastic Cycle is a federal policy roadmap that focuses on single-use plastic packaging, which accounts for about half of Canada’s plastic waste. It found that despite population growth and associated demand, a significant reduction is possible using existing federal policy tools.

This was announced by Grant Shapps as an introduction to the UK’s Department for Transport's new strategy for air travel, which was released last week. The idea is to turnaround the industry and ensure emission-free flying by 2050 … which sounds fantastic and just what every UK citizen who enjoys their holiday wants to hear – but it is a realistic aim?

The Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) – which manages the Cotton Made in Africa (CMiA) initiative – has launched a new standard for regenerative cotton produced by small-scale farmers.

Wildlife on every continent are contaminated with harmful flame-retardant chemicals, including some endangered species such as killer whales, northern sea otters, red pandas and chimpanzees, according to a new map that tracks peer-reviewed studies from around the world.

The Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) held an online meeting with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and other aid agencies to seek assistance for those affected by the recent earthquake in Herat province.

The Energy Department awarded up to $7 billion in grants for clean hydrogen “hubs,” but environmentalists warn some of the money could prop up fossil fuels and fail to cut emissions.

Pentagon regulations prohibit the military from cleaning up its bases once they have been vacated overseas. Journalist Lynzy Billing spent months in Afghanistan interviewing Afghans who lived and worked near three vast American installations about the war’s environmental devastation.

Kana’ani on Saturday offered his condolences to the Afghan people and caretaker government over the fatal earthquake in Herat province.

Moving to New York can be a culture shock. When Liz French decamped from Indiana to Long Island City, Queens, in 1989—well before it was a trendy place to live—she was sad to learn she’d lost access to a beloved childhood ritual: composting. Her parents, “kind of hippies,” had introduced her to the practice growing up in Bloomfield, Indiana, but, in the Big Apple, there was no gardening “or any sort of composting,” she said. Back then Long Island City was, even for New York, very much an industrial environment.

Small tsunami waves arrived in parts of Japan's Izu island chain following an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday morning, with no damage reported.