Negotiators from 185 nations worked beyond Thursday's deadline and through the night in an ultimately futile search for common ground. A large bloc wants bold action such as curbing plastic production, while a smaller clutch of oil-producing states want to focus more narrowly on waste management.

The court said climate change was an "urgent and existential threat" and countries had a legal duty to prevent harm from their planet-warming pollution.

Busan, South Korea - Deeply divided negotiators failed on Sunday to reach a landmark global treaty to curb plastic pollution, missing a self-imposed deadline, and agreed to extend their talks. For a week, delegates from nearly 200 nations meeting in South Korea have wrestled with how to stop millions of tonnes...

Strasbourg, France - The EU on Tuesday urged a 90-percent cut to its greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, even as the bloc's transition to a greener future was clouded by a widespread farmers' revolt. "Based on the best available science, and a detailed impact assessment, we are recommending that the 2040 target...

Geneva, Switzerland - The number of new cancer cases will rise to more than 35 million in 2050 -- 77 percent higher than the figure in 2022, the World Health Organization's cancer agency warned Thursday. The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) cited tobacco, alcohol, obesity and air pollution...

BELFAST, UK - Long gone from Belfast's famed harbor where the Titanic was built, oysters are making a comeback thanks to a nursery installation project aimed at boosting marine life and water quality. Until the early 1900s, the narrow Belfast Lough channel was home to large oyster reefs but overfishing, disease and...

DUBAI, UAE - According to World Health Organization data, 99 percent of the world’s population lives in places where air pollution levels exceed WHO guideline limits. Exposure to air pollution increases the risk of respiratory diseases, stroke, heart attacks, diabetes and links to dementia. Children are also highly susceptible to...

Nairobi, Kenya -- Nations grappling with the plastic "suffocating" nature and leaching into food and the human body began fresh negotiations on Monday toward a UN treaty to tackle the growing problem. Some 175 countries agreed last year to conclude by 2024 a binding agreement to combat the plastic pollution...

Abu Dhabi, UAE--Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) has published "Sustainable Finance Framework" establishing criteria and eligibility requirements that determine which projects are labelled “green”, “social”, or “sustainable”. The framework will determine the eligibility of projects for the bank to finance or refinance, including the issuance of green, social and sustainability...

"2023 is the year that climate records were not just broken but smashed," said Mark Maslin, a professor of climatology at University College London.

Some 175 nations are working to reach a landmark agreement by end-2024 that will curb plastic pollution, which ends up in oceans, birds' stomachs and on mountain peaks. Microplastics have even been detected in blood and maternal milk.

Villagers and environmental activists have been locked in clashes with the police in the southwestern Mugla province since their plant began cutting down trees and olive groves in search for more coal last month.

Abu Dhabi, UAE--The UAE has applauded the UN for the successful unloading of oil from the deteriorating tanker, FSO Safer, situated off Yemen's coast in the Red Sea. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) lauded the collective efforts of the United Nations, its Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the Coalition to Restore...

Recent global data indicates an alarming rate of pollution in several Arab countries, with Lebanon, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia among the top most polluted nations. The problem extends throughout the Middle East, as evidenced by high rankings for Iran and Turkey as well. Despite environmental initiatives and efforts towards sustainability,...

London, UK--Bahrain and the United Kingdom have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on biodiversity and marine pollution. The MoU aims to create a framework of action between Bahrain’s Supreme Council for Environment (SCE) and Britain’s Cefas by allowing them to explore areas of cooperation in monitoring the environment, marine...

The EU environmental agency said that air pollution is responsible for causing more than 1,200 premature deaths a year in under 18's across Europe and raises the risk of chronic disease later in life. It said that in spite of recent improvements, "the level of key air pollutants remain stubbornly...

A statement put out by G7 said the phase-out will be achieved by "promoting sustainable consumption and production of plastics, increasing their circularity in the economy, and environmentally sound management of waste". German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke hailed the bloc's new plastic pollution pledge as an "ambitious goal".

The proposed rules set aggressively low standards for emissions of greenhouse gases and criteria pollutants, which is expected to lead to further manufacturing and marketing of EVs amid already considerable investments announced by US and foreign carmakers.

The UN announced that it had taken a significant step towards trying to fill a key gap in the fight against climate change: standardized, real-time tracking of greenhouse gases. The UN's World Meteorological Organization has come up with a new Global Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure that aims to provide better...

This is especially important with the ongoing preparations for the UAE to host the 28th Conference of the Parties by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28).

Jordan is one of the world's most water-deficient countries, suffering from extreme droughts, and water cooperation with Israel long pre-dates the 1994 peace deal between them.

Posts and reports included various estimates for the number of such planes bringing delegates to the gathering in the beach resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.Climate Action Against Disinformation, a group that analyses trends in false information on social media, said in a report on Thursday that narratives of supposed "hypocrisy and elitism"...

The Japanese conglomerate wants to eliminate the material from all containers for newly designed smaller goods by 2025, a spokeswoman told AFP. "Instead of plastics, we will mainly use paper, and a so-called 'original blend material' made from bamboo, used paper and squeezed sugarcane fibre," she said.

The already daunting task of decarbonizing the global economy in a few years has been made even harder by a global energy crunch and rapid inflation.

Thick black smoke sometimes billows from its red-and-white chimneys, leaving a grey haze in the air above the Zouk Mikael industrial district where the toxins remain trapped by a nearby mountain chain. Zeina, aged 40, says she lost her younger sister and a cousin to pulmonary fibrosis and that two...

On an eight-notch scale of rolling blackouts, the country has reached the sixth critical stage. Level six was seen in June in the middle of the southern winter amid an increase in energy consumption and pressure on production.

Sharjah has banned single-use plastic bags and materials in the Emirate of Sharjah as of 1st January 2024. It follows Sharjah’s efforts of making an environment-friendly emirate and its supportive plans of conservation, said reports. The ban was decided during a meeting of the Sharjah Executive Council (SEC) Tuesday morning...

Jordan won the direct election to become a member of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to End Plastic Pollution, which is expected to produce an agreement by 2024.

In April, Tehran's Air Quality Control Society said dust clouds originated from "countries to the west of Iran".

Oceans produce half the oxygen we breathe, regulate the weather and provide humanity's single largest source of protein.

With proliferation of smart home technology and advanced Wi-Fi connectivity, a smart home is achievable to anyone, says Sharjah Sustainable City CEO Yousif Ahmed Al-Mutawa.

The swamps, nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, are one of the world's largest inland deltas and were declared in 2016 a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The Equatorial Guinea-flagged Xelo was thought to have been carrying 750 tons of diesel when it went down en route between Egypt and Malta on Saturday.

Researchers are considering a mutual fund to compensate farmers in the event of losses linked to the reduction of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.

The European Union’s REACH inventory has covered only 150,000 out of 350,000 different substances and only a third of those have been the subject of detailed toxicity studies, and yet the results are alarming.

Communities and businesses that rely on the ocean are hurting, as more than 3 billion people depend on marine and coastal biodiversity for their livelihoods.

Afghans have joined Kurds, the Laz, Roma and other ethnic minorities and undocumented migrants in doing work others snub. For less than $10 a day, they roam the streets of Istanbul collecting trash — a profession that is illegal in the country, and has led to its practitioners being arrested...

Overall, the US contributed around 42 million metric tons in plastic waste in 2016 — more than twice as much as China and more than the countries of the European Union combined, according to a new report submitted to the federal government. Its authors called for the country to develop...

CO2 pollution this year will be just shy of the record set in 2019, according to the Global Carbon Project consortium.

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An annual survey by the Clean Air Fund has highlighted that the air quality remains low on the list of funding priorities

There is increasing international alarm over the sheer volumes of fossil-fuel based plastics entering the environment, as microplastics have infiltrated even the most remote regions of the planet. Tiny fragments have been discovered inside fish in the deepest recesses of the ocean and peppering Arctic sea ice.

Saudi Arabia has launched a strict campaign of penalizing companies and individuals involved in polluting water resource of the kingdom. The fine could be up to $5.3 million.

The environment ministry has ordered the closure of a number of beaches along the Greater Tripoli coastline, despite the roasting summer heat

The move aimed at reducing plastic waste – and the resultant pollution – across the country The ban will be on the making, importing, and sale of all such water bottles, but not on those meant for export Bahrain will ban all plastic water bottles that have a liquid-holding capacity...