Environment Episodes

Microplastics are being found in an increasing amount of marine life and the full extent of their danger is not yet known.

Raeesah Noor-Mahomed is willing to put her matric education on hold to protest and raise awareness of the seriousness of climate change.

Australia's Wollemi Pines survived the dinosaurs, and now firefighters have nursed them through the country's worst bushfires in generations to live another day.

Guardian Australia's Mike Bowers sends back footage from Yaouk Road as a fire front approaches on Saturday afternoon – more than three hours before sunset

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu meets with former US Vice President Al Gore to discuss climate change.

Fitness centers are full of germs and bacteria because of the warm and sweaty environment. Here are a few simple ways to avoid gym germs.

A UK researcher gives Euronews top tips on how to make your Christmas dinner - and the holiday period generally - more sustainable.

As humans, we are hardwired to give more importance to negative experiences than positive or neutral ones. This is called negativity bias.

In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, an alternative climate conference is taking place that brings together youth activists, indigenous leaders, scientists and forest dwellers.

Recovery operation on hold as tremors increase around the volcano where a group of tourist died in an eruption on Monday.

Local Maori community leader Pouroto Ngaropo said on Tuesday the recent White Island volcano eruption that killed six people was a "sad" time for New Zealand.

Greta Thunberg may have found her successor.

At least five people are now confirmed to have died after a volcano erupted off the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, police confirmed on Monday.

A New Zealand volcanic island spewed a massive eruption while dozens of tourists were exploring it on Monday. The site was still too dangerous hours later for police and rescuers to search for the missing.

The climate crisis is the biggest global threat that humanity faces.

Explosive discovery: bombs, grenades and shells are sleeping at the bottom of Lake Geneva

L’Organisation des Nations unies pour le Développement Industriel a tenu pour la première fois sa conférence aux Emirats Arabes Unis.

Our oceans are the lifeblood of our lonely planet, so it's important that we do everything we can to protect it from ourselves.

An Arctic blast pummeling the northern United States on Monday is forecast to break more than 400 cold-temperature records in the next 48 hours.

New research has found that aspirin could protect our lungs from air pollution.According to the EPA, air pollution has been known to have an adverse effect on respiratory health.

The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations that it will withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, the first formal step in a one-year process to exit the global pact to fight climate change, U.S. Secretary of State M

For more than four years the community of Snake Park in Soweto has been swamped in raw sewage from an unknown source.

Doyte lives in South Omo, Ethiopia, one of the most remote areas in the world and hard hit by the climate crisis.

Ten years after climate movie The Age of Stupid had its green-carpet, solar-powered premiere, we follow its director as she revisits people and places from the film and asks: are we still heading for the catastrophic future it depicted?

Officials ordered 2,000 people to evacuate in Northern California wine country Thursday after a wildfire exploded in size, fueled by powerful winds that prompted utilities throughout the state to impose electrical blackouts to prevent fires.

The Guardian recently pledged to give the climate crisis the attention it demands.

Johannesburg is considered the most uranium-contaminated city in the world. Waste dumps from around 600 abandoned mines sit next to residential communities, blowing polluted dust into homes and contaminating soil and water supplies.

The Citarum river in Indonesia is the world's most polluted river. The Green Warriors team analyzed water samples, rice, children's hair, etc. and found out many toxic chemicals are endangering the lives of the 14 million Indonesians using the water.

More and more businesses are promising to recycle, including Coca-Cola, a group selling 4000 plastic bottles every second. Can we depend on promises made by these multinationals? We discover that their promises are as sugar-filled as their products.

We reveal how the oil industry has been secretly funding scientific studies, launching false media reports and systematically deceiving the public about climate change - since 1946. Now, the first lawsuits have been filed.

Dieselgate' made headlines around world. For deliberately cheating the system, Volkswagen were made to pay a record $20 billion fine. But, as this investigation shows, they were far from the only culprits.

The Guardian reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era.

The Vineyard Hotel in Cape Town launched new charging stations for electric cars, as part of a 9-day road trip with green cars from Johannesburg to the Mother City organised by Generation.e.

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The Guardian reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the modern era.

The Duke of Sussex has shared an image he took of Baobab trees in Malawi’s Liwonde National Park as he guest-edits National Geographic’s Instagram account.

How can you actually offset your carbon footprint while travelling to far-flung destinations?

The fashion industry is a fossil-fuel-guzzling operation as many of our clothes are made from petroleum-based textiles such as polyester.

Scientists behind a landmark study of the links between oceans, glaciers, ice caps and the climate delivered a stark warning to the world on Wednesday: slash emissions or watch cities vanish under rising seas, rivers run dry and marine life collapse.

The Planetary Health Diet aims to give millions of people better access to food, reduce obesity and reduce damage to the environment around the world.

Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg is in the running for the next Nobel peace prize. But the confrontational approach that has won her millions of followers could also deter the Nobel committee.

The Green MP tells Jones the Liberal Democrats are playing with fire with their 'arrogant' pledge to revoke article 50, describing the policy as a 'slap in the face' for people who voted leave.

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is held back by a security officer as US President Donald Trump arrives at the UN climate summit.

From grasslands to seashores to forests and backyards, birds are disappearing at an alarming rate in the United States and Canada, with a 29% population drop since 1970, scientists said on Thursday. Nathan Frandino has more.

Marriott International said it would be phasing out miniature toiletry bottles by December 2020.

<p>After four years of leading volunteer beach cleans in the west of Wales, Alan Cooksonis quitting because of the insurmountable plastic problem around Britain’s coastlines.

The Guardian invited the civil rights leader to the community on the banks of the Mississippi River where the people face the highest risk of cancer due to airborne toxins in the United States.

Fatbergs, caused by an entangled mess of wet wipes 'mortared together' by fats, oils and grease to form rock-hard material, are creating a 'real problem with blockages in the pipes', according to Sydney Water's Peter Hadfield.