environment

For Father's Day, Treehugger decided to honor the wonderful dads in our lives with an eco-friendly twist—by profiling the extra-cool fathers who drive their kids around town using electric cargo bikes. 

1,502,319 signatures were officially submitted to the European Commission (EC), calling on the EU to ban fur farming and the placement of farmed fur products on the market once and for all.

Global fishing is in trouble. The sheer volume of fish we are taking from our oceans through fishing is reducing the ability of wild populations to replace their numbers. Adding insult to injury, governments around the world are subsidizing these harmful overfishing practices.

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) hosted a two-day workshop to hear feedback from regulators, industry, academia, and environmental and animal protection organizations on how to accelerate the transition to a chemicals regulatory system free from animal testing.

Plastics contain toxic chemicals that can enter products and interact to create new harmful substances during the recycling process, a new report from Greenpeace and the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) shows.

Just about anywhere you look, there are birds. Penguins live in Antarctica, and ptarmigan in the Arctic Circle. Rüppell’s vultures soar higher than Mt. Everest. Emperor penguins dive deeper than 1,800 feet. There are birds on mountains, birds in cities, birds in deserts, birds in oceans, birds on farm fields and birds in parking lots.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest on Wednesday, covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze, holding up flights at major airports and prompting people to fish out pandemic-era face masks.

In July 2021, my family stood on our local beach in Vancouver toting towels and sunscreen, wondering why the shorefront looked a little odd. It dawned on us slowly. At low tide, all the mussels were open, lifeless shells that crunched ominously underfoot, cooked by the extreme heat wave that had gripped British Columbia the week before. Soon it was in papers around the world: One researcher guessed that the record-breaking heat must have killed more than a billion creatures along British Columbia’s shores.

When it comes to fighting for a sustainable future, the world’s cities are “critical battlegrounds” and more important than ever to making multilateralism work for all, said the UN chief in a video message on Monday to the United Nations Habitat Assembly.

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