Environment

Tourists walk over sand strewn with sargassum at Ballenas Beach in Cancun, Mexico As the sun rises in Mexico’s Quintana Roo state, home to the white sandy beaches of Cancun…

Goat herder Melissa Jeuken feeds her herd of ‘Old Irish Goats’, a breed introduced to Howth Hills in a bid to reduce wildfires and to protect the species from going…

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth delivers a speech in the debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament The world’s attention will be focused on Scotland for next month’s climate summit, Queen Elizabeth told…

The Windy Fire burns in Sequoia National Forest near California Hot Springs, California, U.S., September 24, 2021. REUTERS/David Swanson The fact that climate change effects will mainly be shouldered by…

Indigenous activists delivered a Jatoba tree to Norway’s embassy in Brasilia on Tuesday, seeking “refugee” status for it in a symbolic protest against the destruction of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The…

President of Madagascar, Andry Nirina Rajoelina The president of Madagascar branded current efforts to fight climate change “lax” and called for urgent and coordinated world response during his address to…

Wild horses graze the grass on Cincar Mountain near Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina September 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic Wild horses galloping across rugged mountains in western Bosnia are an ever-bigger…

Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged leaders of the world’s major economies including the United States to deliver on their commitments toward…

The UN Education, Scientific and Culture Organisation (UNESCO) has raised alarm at unprecedented speed which biodiversity is collapsing globally. Ms Audrey Azoulay, the Director-General of UNESCO expressed this concern at…

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has predicted three days cloudiness and sunshine from Monday across the country. NiMet’s weather outlook released on Sunday in Abuja predicted  cloudy skies with intervals…