Wet and wild: There’s lots of water in the world’s most explosive volcano
There isn't much in Kamchatka, a remote peninsula in northeastern Russia just across the Bering Sea from Alaska, besides an impressive population of brown...
Tiny particles that seed clouds can form from trace gases over open sea
New results from an atmospheric study over the Eastern North Atlantic reveal that tiny aerosol particles that seed the formation of clouds can form...
Nations failing to fund climate adaptation: UN
The world is falling short of promises made under the Paris climate deal to help the most vulnerable nations deal with the increasingly devastating...
2020 another grim year for Brazilian Amazon
Deforestation destroyed the equivalent of more than two football pitches each minute in the Brazilian Amazon in 2020, another devastating year for a resource...
Tehran air pollution incurs daily loss of $7m
Air pollution brings a heavy economic burden amounting to $7 million per day for the metropolis of Tehran, Hossein Shahidzadeh, head of Tehran’s Air...
China jails gang for smuggling pangolin scales from Nigeria
A court in China has jailed 17 people for smuggling pangolin scales worth US$28 million from Nigeria to China.
The creature is the world’s most...
Soil moisture exerts a negative feedback on surface water availability in drylands: study
Scientists have thought that global warming will increase the availability of surface water—freshwater resources generated by precipitation minus evapotranspiration—in wet regions, and decrease water...
‘Growing momentum’ to make 2021 the global action year for sustainable energy
Despite that the world is not on track to meet climate objectives and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) for universal access to clean, affordable...
Mexico City ban on single-use plastics takes effect
A broad ban on single-use containers, forks, straws and other ubiquitous items takes effect in Mexico's capital, one of the world's largest cities, after...
Controlling the nanoscale structure of membranes is key for clean water, researchers find
A desalination membrane acts as a filter for salty water: push the water through the membrane, get clean water suitable for agriculture, energy production...
