environment

March 19, 2020

Recent wave of heavy rain in Egypt led to decrease in air pollution: Minister

Egypt’s Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad has announced a recent improvement in air quality and a decrease in pollution rates monitored…

March 10, 2020

At first glance, it looks like any other shantytown in Brazil: a precarious jumble of tin-roof shacks and shoddy streets.…

March 3, 2020

A ‘pandemic’ of air pollution shortens lives worldwide by nearly three years on average, and causes 8.8 million premature deaths…

March 1, 2020

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Salesmen whistle at potential buyers of scores of vehicles shining in the afternoon sun. One truck…

February 28, 2020

BRISTOL, England (Reuters) — Greta Thunberg denounced politicians and the media on Friday for ignoring a looming climate cataclysm, saying…

February 27, 2020

LONDON (Reuters) – The planned expansion of London’s Heathrow Airport was declared unlawful on environmental grounds by a court on…

February 27, 2020

Egypt has announced an ambitious plan to expand mangrove forests by launching the largest mangrove planting project along the Red…

February 25, 2020

Nearly 90 percent of the 200 cities beset by the world’s highest levels of deadly micro-pollution are in China and…

February 18, 2020

His company is often criticized for its environmental record, but Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and the world’s richest man,…

February 16, 2020

From an emissions-reducing model jet that looks like something from a sci-fi movie to electric aircraft and sustainable fuel, the…