Swedish Teen Climate Activist Sails Into New York for UN Summit
By VOA NewsAugust 28, 2019 08:31 PM Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, speaks in front of a crowd of people after sailing in New York harbor aboard the Malizia II, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. The zero-emissions yacht left Plymouth, England on Aug. 14. She is… Teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg arrived in New York on […]
Take action on air pollution to save lives, and the planet, urges UN chief
WMO/Alfred LeeSmog in Beijing In a message to mark World Environment Day, celebrated on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has emphasized the link between worsening levels of air pollution and the climate crisis. As well as claiming seven million lives every year, and damaging children’s development, the UN chief noted that many air pollutants cause global […]
NGOs embarks on Promoting Peaceful Coexistence, Fighting Desertification & Climate change Through Trees Planting
The Centre for Community Actions for Peace and Development (CCAPAD) Jos , In partnership with Interfaith Mediation Center, (IMC) Kaduna, is poised to promote peaceful coexistence among the various ethnic and religious groups in Kaduna and Plateau States, by youth engagements in tree planting. In view of the above, the organizations is organizing a 2-week Educational […]
How much would it cost to switch to plastic alternatives? Richard Gray crunches the numbers.
By Richard Gray Walking along a short section of stony beach, Claire Waluda stoops briefly to pick up something from between the rocks. It is a brightly coloured plastic bottle top – just one of hundreds of bits of plastic that she finds washed ashore on the remote, windswept island of South Georgia. Located in […]
The unlikely pioneers fighting climate change
By Nathan Gardels The historian Arnold Toynbee famously argued that the well-being of a civilization can be judged by its ability to respond to human and environmental challenges. The Donald Trump administration’s full-throttle reverse course aimed at renewing fossil fuels as the chief source of energy — as the planet faces the droughts, deluges and firestorms […]
How to deal with climate change in the Black Sea
MARIA BEAT Climate change is a burning issue in the international agenda, and with global warming increasing, it adds a sense of immediate urgency. The year 2017 was the third-warmest year on record, the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bonn, from Nov. 7 to Nov. 17, 2017, revealed. The conference confirmed as well that the […]