Human Interest

SOLUTIONS to the massive garbage “islands” floating off Thailand start at the individual level, but government policy and regulation is also needed, officials and environmentalists have said.

Public information film unseen for years shows Shell had clear grasp of global warming 26 years ago but has not acted accordingly since, say critics

Land totaling the size of Connecticut has been targeted in a new bill in the Republican House, uniting hunters and conservationists in opposition

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says approval of the two contentious pipelines

The renowned American linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky has warned the US Republican party is now “the most dangerous organisation in world history” because of the denial of climate change by President-elect Donald Trump and other leading figures. Following the US elections, Professor Chomsky said it appeared humans planned to answer what he called “the most important question in their history … by accelerating the race to disaster”.

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With the Danes rebuffing Russia, and Canada laying further claim to the Northwest Passage, rising access to north pole reserves risks flashpoints

Pontiff says humans are turning planet into ‘wasteland full of debris, desolation and filth’ in call for urgent action on climate change

David Hill: Huge swathe of new “protected natural area” in Peru’s Amazon is included within an oil and gas concession run by Canadian company

Avocados are bountiful in our food culture and all over Instagram. But communities in Mexico are suffering because of our fetishisation

Nothing hits the planet as hard as rearing animals. Caring for it means cutting out meat, dairy and eggs

Donald Trump is a creep and unpleasant to look at, but at least he’s not a stunning hypocrite when it comes to climate change

The illegal dumping of waste mixed with mass untreated sewage in India’s Silicon Valley is creating a water crisis which threatens residents’ health – and is causing the city’s famous lakes to catch fire

Researchers develop mathematical equation to determine impact of people’s intense activity on earth

Fredrik Albritton Jonsson examines Amitav Ghosh’s take on climate change and considers if the basic aims of economic development must be completely redefined to acknowledge Earth’s finite resources

From Trump to climate change, this multiheaded crisis presages collapse. And there’s no hope of exiting the ‘other side’ if political alternatives are shut down

See a tulip farm that looks like a Mondrian painting – and more striking photos of the planet’s landscapes taken via satellites in space.

Workers, including children, labor in harsh and dangerous conditions to meet the world’s soaring demand for cobalt, a mineral essential to powering electric vehicles, laptops, and smartphones, according to an investigation by The Washington Post.

"We don’t have gold, or petrol or diamonds, the sea is the only resource that our country has," says Mariane Tening Ndiaye, a fish trader and head of the women’s fish smoking association, as she takes me around her domain behind the market. Low-strung platforms covered in flayed fish and blackened ovens stretch away into the distance, the air thick with the stench of rotting fish guts.

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Experts say humanity’s impact on Earth now so profound that the Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear bomb tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken

Campaigners say Crystal Serenity trip puts at risk very environment tourists are travelling to see in Northwest Passage

The best we can hope for is pretty alarming.