ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE

New Findings Show Pesticide DDT Persists in Remote Lakes at Concerning Levels

POLICY Pesticide use can result in persistent and permanent changes in aquatic ecosystems The pesticide DDT persists in remote lakes at concerning levels half a century it was banned, affecting critical marine species and potentially entire lake food webs, according to new findings of a multi-university research team published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.

Pollinators: What’s All the Buzz About?

Our food production depends heavily on pollinators. The majority of flowering plants are pollinated by insects and other animals. It has been estimated that the proportion of animal-pollinated wild plant species rises from an average of 78 percent in temperate-zone communities to 94 percent in tropical communities.

Ocean Habitats Are On a Steep Decline

A crisis for biodiversity also risks becoming a major humanitarian challenge. Billions of people worldwide - especially the world's poorest- rely on healthy oceans to provide livelihoods, jobs and food and the range of goods and services that flow from coastal and marine environments.

The Impacts of Land Degradation

Preventing degradation is much cheaper in the long run than permitting it. Land degradation is the persistent reduction of the capacity of the land to support both biodiversity and human needs.

Last-Ditch Calls for Further Investigation on Coal Mine Harm

Experts raised concerns that the ancient Doongmabulla Springs faces a ‘reasonable threat of extinction’ from Adani’s proposed Galilee Basin coal mine, which echoes previous research by CSIRO and Geoscience Australia

Facts About Air Pollution You Must Know On World Environment Day

BARCELONA -- Who is safe from air pollution? No one is. The United Nations are sending another warming on the celebration of World Environment Day. They say that 9 out of 10 people on the planet are breathing polluted air and that these 9 people can live at any given part of the world.

Western Plastic: To Spurn or To Burn?

What will the world do with all these plastic trash from highly industrialized Western countries? PARIS, France -- Western countries, despite huge campaigns in an effort to reduce plastic wastes continue to produce more.
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