Environmental Protection
Microplastics ‘are everywhere’: in lakes, rivers and seas
Microplastics have permeated water sources globally from rivers right down to the depths of the oceans.
Illegal fishing is driving the last few vaquitas extinct
Critically endangered vaquitas' extinction is "virtually assured" unless conservation efforts are stepped up.
Hong Kong is at the heart of global wildlife trafficking
Between 2013 and 2017, the small Chinese territory seized 43 metric tons of pangolin scales in shipments from abroad.
U.S. group says ‘big’ residents don’t need safer water
Obesity has been cited as the reason why West Virginia doesn’t need higher clean-water standards.
By 2050 Australia will have no winter but a ‘new summer’
Within three decades Australian winters will have become only memories as a result of climate change.
Helping families of fallen rangers at Virunga National Park
Virunga’s park rangers often encounter armed rebel and illegal wildlife traffickers as they guard conservation areas.