Environment
Scientists find Europe’s last primary forests
Morgan Erickson-Davis A study finds 3.4 million acres (13,760 square kilometers or 5,313 square miles) in Europe fit the definition of primary forest set […]
Category: Environment
Sustainable Business
Global call on G7 and Corporates to end plastic pollution crisis
New data collected through cleanups and brand audits confirms that some of the world’s largest corporations — including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestlé, and Procter & […]
Biodiversity
“Guardians of the Amazon” seize illegal loggers to protect uncontacted tribe
Members of an Amazon tribe patrolling their rainforest reserve to protect uncontacted relatives from illegal loggers have seized a notorious logging gang, burned their truck, and […]
Data & Reports
Are we ready for the next Pompeii-learning from past disasters
The great disasters of the past – like the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD or the hurricane that devastated Santo Domingo in 1930 […]
Aid
Better insurance is vital to protecting our ocean
Torsten Thiele Experts gathered in Bermuda for the first Ocean Risk Summit, which aims to improve understanding of ocean risks and unlock blue capital […]
Sustainable Business
Almost everything you know about e-waste is wrong
Josh Lepawsky Waste arises ubiquitously, but unevenly, throughout the lives of electronics, not only when users discard their devices. No amount of post-consumer recycling […]
Environment
U.S. environmental groups are largely white. Here’s what some are — and some aren’t — doing about it.
Virginia Gewin There are still relatively few connections between communities of color and the environmental sector. The ongoing lack of ethnic diversity on environmental […]
Biodiversity
Climate change could put food supply for migratory birds at risk
Augusta Dwyer Along with rising sea levels and disrupted weather patterns, climate change could also have a potentially harmful impact on migratory birds. That […]
Environment
HydroConference: a very urgent need to improve water management
A three-day conference on hydrological services therefore sought to address the urgent need to improve forecasting, management and use of water supplies and to […]
Environment
Bhutan to graduate from being a Least Developed Country
Dawa Gyelmo Secretary of Gross National Happiness Commission spoke to thethirdpole.net about what this milestone means for Bhutan Bhutan is about to graduate from […]
Aid
Climate finance – not kind, climate justice
The international community is failing to move to important discussions: sources, mechanisms and access modalities of Strategic Climate Fund (SCF) since 2012 and this […]
Cities
Asian Cities pollute our Seas the most, must act together to curb it!
Eight of the ten rivers, that carry almost 95 percent of all the plastic debris into the Seas, are from Asia. Ganges and Indus […]
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