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Urban Ocean® - Ocean Conservancy

Urban Ocean® - Ocean Conservancy

Urban Ocean City CAP reports Led by University of Georgia’s New Materials Institute and Circularity Informatics Lab. As part of the Urban Ocean process, each Learning City...

UNEP, UNFCCC and GORD unveil online Green Events Tool

UNEP, UNFCCC and GORD unveil online Green Events Tool

New York, 20 September 2022 - Events, irrespective of their size, are a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and sustainability impacts. With an aim to...

Australian parliament passes first climate change legislation in a decade

Australian parliament passes first climate change legislation in a decade

Australia’s first climate change legislation in a decade has passed federal parliament with support from the Greens and key crossbench senators. Labor’s climate bill – which...

NSW becomes first state to treat carbon dioxide as pollutant to ensure industries cut emissions

NSW becomes first state to treat carbon dioxide as pollutant to ensure industries cut emissions

New South Wales will be the first state in Australia to start treating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as pollutants, which will eventually require polluters to...

UNEP platform updated to provide real-time data on age groups most exposed to poor air quality

UNEP platform updated to provide real-time data on age groups most exposed to poor air quality

Nairobi, 7 September 2022 – Responding to the recent UN resolution on the right to a healthy environment, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with Swiss...

Keeping Up With Victims Displaced by Climate Disasters

Keeping Up With Victims Displaced by Climate Disasters

Some colleagues talk of environmental journalism as the “apocalypse beat.” Accurate or not, you can be pretty sure that more disasters are coming soon. Hurricanes, wildfires and...

Swift parrot recovery plan changes downplay logging threat, experts say

Swift parrot recovery plan changes downplay logging threat, experts say

Tasmanian and federal bureaucrats pushed for a recovery plan for a critically endangered parrot species to be changed to remove and downplay scientific evidence that logging was...

Study: Practical and financial barriers hampering beef farmers' pursuit of net zero

Study: Practical and financial barriers hampering beef farmers' pursuit of net zero

A number of practical and financial barriers associated with reducing carbon footprints and capturing more carbon are standing in the way of beef farmers making the transition...

A New Test for an Old Theory About Dreams

A New Test for an Old Theory About Dreams

When Massimo Scanziani’s daughter was young, he’d often see her eyes twitching beneath her eyelids while she was sleeping. These rapid eye movements (or REMs) are so obvious,...

Pineapple potential written all over the sandy soil of Suriname

Pineapple potential written all over the sandy soil of Suriname

Pineapple potential written all over the sandy soil of Suriname Working with Indigenous Peoples to upgrade the value chain and reach more markets Suriname is considered a...

Is Bangladesh turning its back on renewable energy?

Is Bangladesh turning its back on renewable energy?

Bangladesh's dependency on coal-based power plants is gradually increasing, when countries around the world are abandoning the technology to make electricity. The total...

Urban Gardening Brings Job Training for Florida Youth

Urban Gardening Brings Job Training for Florida Youth

GrowCity, a paid youth internship program in Florida, is using urban agriculture to equip youth from low-income neighborhoods with interpersonal and work skills and community...