An ancient temple in India and a “cultural landscape” in Spain have become two of the latest sites to be registered on
While the world has rightly been concentrating on the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout, the biggest challenge on the planet remains averting the much worse climate crisis looming unless we radically restructure the way we live and work.
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of $150 million for clean energy financing in the greater Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) and Yangtze River Delta (YRD) regions of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as the latest part of a multiyear program to improve air quality.
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Climate change and the COVID-19 crisis have a great deal in common. Both are human tragedies and economic catastrophes: The pandemic has taken more than a million lives, thrown hundreds of millions out of work, and is projected to wipe out $28 trillion in output over the next five years;
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Understanding the feeding habits of zooplankton has the potential to dramatically improve the ability of scientists to predict changes in ocean carbon storage and our future climate, a new study has found.
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A host of countries have recently announced major commitments to significantly cut their carbon emissions, promising to reach "net zero" in the coming years. The term is becoming a global rallying cry, frequently cited as a necessary step to successfully beat back climate change, and the devastation it is causing.
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This month marks the start of a new international collaboration to better understand the ultra deep-sea through innovative adaptation of sensors to withstand the crushing pressures at depths of down to 11,000 metres.
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The largest aggregation of fishes ever recorded in the abyssal deep sea was discovered by a team of oceanographers from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UH, USA), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI, USA) and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC, UK). Their findings were published recently in Deep-Sea Research. “Our observations truly surprised us,” said Astrid
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2020 is the year when so much of normal life has been put on hold: travel, meetings, office work, the simple pleasures of meeting friends and family. It has also been a year of frenzied activity, and of rising to meet new demands in unfamiliar, difficult circumstances.
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With the support of its partners and donors, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has allocated USD 750,000 for humanitarian and early recovery actions in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.
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