Environment

World's glaciers are losing record ice as global temperatures climb

The dramatic ice loss is likely to exacerbate economic, environmental and social problems across the world as sea levels rise and these key water sources dwindle

Greenpeace must pay $667mn over Standing Rock protests: jury

The environmental advocacy group says it will appeal the verdict, which says protesters unlawfully disrupted construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline

Bangladesh moves to 2nd worst in 2024 air quality rankings

The South Asian country's air quality is more than 15 times worse than WHO guidelines

Massive sinkholes put hundreds in Amazonian town at risk

Some 1,200 people of total 55,000 population of the Brazilian city of Buriticupu are at risk of having their homes tip into the widening abyss

Japan approves new climate policies through 2040

The measures focus on promoting decarbonisation, ensuring a stable energy supply and strengthening industrial capacity to drive economic growth

Plastic waste recycling

In Old Dhaka’s Lalbagh, Hazaribagh, and Rayerbazar embankment areas, factories process plastic waste, melting it down to create new materials. These factories receive plastic waste from across the country. Bangladesh generates 900,000 tonnes of plastic waste annually, of which only 40 percent is recycled. The remainder pollutes the environment.

Impact of Amazon's climate-driven drought may last until 2026

Winners of the 2023 Earth.Org Photography Competition