Environmental Protection
Study: the planet’s forest cover hasn’t shrunk. It’s grown
When it comes to the state of forests on the planet, it may often seem like gloom and doom. Forest covers are being lost at alarming rates in many parts of the world from the island of Borneo in Southeast
Wild elephants are now being hunted for their skin too
Asian elephants have long been hunted for their tusks around Southeast Asia. Now in some areas of Myanmar (formerly Burma) they are also being hunted in record numbers for their skins. The reason: many people have come to believe that
Real Madrid score a win for recycled plastic
Real Madrid are the world’s most successful football club and one of its most popular too. It’s now one of its more environmentally friendly teams too. In a preseason game that took place in the US against Italian powerhouse AS
Pharmaceutical discharges can badly harm the environment
The medicines we produce come with great health benefits. Sadly, though, they can also come with harmful side-effects to the environment. Take birth control pills. They have been a great boon to women everywhere by allowing them to control their
Seeking to nab the traffickers of endangered pangolins
Pangolins, a scaly ant-eating animal with long claws and an ever longer snout, are among the world’s strangest mammals. They are also among its most trafficked animals, being driven inexorably ever closer to extinction by unscrupulous poachers and wildlife trafficking
Study: not even the depths of oceans are safe from us
“Nowhere is safe,” says a biologist, when it comes to human impacts on the planet’s ecosystems. And that includes even the depths of the oceans. Scary? Perhaps. But true, sadly. According to James Watson, a biologist and climate scientist at the