Focus on Environment
Rights groups petition European watchdog to secure clean water in French Caribbean
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) said on Thursday it has filed a collective complaint to a European rights body to demand...
Get ‘deforestation’ products off supermarket shelves without delay, UK government urged
Rules that would help to remove deforestation from supermarket shelves must go ahead “without delay”, a group of cross-party MPs and peers have...
Fossil fuels set to be as unpopular as cigarettes: Brazil energy minister
Fossil fuels will eventually be seen as just as unhealthy as cigarettes, according to Brazil Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira, who oversees the South...
More onshore wind farms in Wales unlikely to halt red kite recovery – study
Developing more onshore wind farms in Wales is unlikely to stop the recovery of the country’s red kite population, research suggests. A study...
Booming cement demand may drive up CO2 emissions, research says
SINGAPORE – Innovation and policy changes are urgently required to tackle climate-warming emissions from the cement sector, with an infrastructure boom in developing...
Taps have run dry across South Africa’s largest city in an unprecedented water crisis
JOHANNESBURG — For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country’s largest city,...
B.C. funds project to extract minerals, metals while reducing environmental impacts
VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government is funding a pilot project that it says offers the mining industry a path to significantly reduce...
Grueling conditions, environmental problems in India’s shrimp industry: investigative report
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Noriko Kuwabara was excited to try a new recipe she’d seen on social media for crispy shrimp spring rolls,...
Rising scourge of e-waste a ‘catastrophe’ for environment: UN
The world threw away a record amount of smartphones, televisions and other electrical devices in 2022, the UN said Wednesday, warning this avalanche...
UN says e-waste from trashed electric devices is piling up and recycling isn’t keeping pace
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.N. agencies have warned that electrical and electronic waste is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and...
