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Until recently, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels had levelled off, but estimates from the Global Carbon Project (GCP) suggest that this is all going to change, with global emissions set to grow by around 2%. In a new report, researchers from the University of East Anglia and the Global…

The average household in the UK produces more than a tonne of waste every year – and it’s during the festive period that we waste the most. In fact, over Christmas the UK creates 30 percent more waste than usual. Everything from cards and…

Every year more than 8 million tonnes of plastic is dumped into our oceans. The numbers add up to trouble for the oceans, wildlife, and us. Lets put the ocean’s plastic problem into perspective……

Volcanoes are one of nature’s most destructive forces, able to destroy within seconds. There are currently over 1,400 volcanoes dotted around the world, many of which lay dormant in their environments – but not all of them.  Recent eruptions include Mount Agung in…

Check out the interactive map below to see if your nation is included in the world’s 30 greenest countries!…

For some animal species, time on planet Earth is running out. There have been five mass extinctions in the planet’s history, and animal populations so far suggests that we may have entered what will be the sixth great extinction wave. Since the 1960’s and 1970’s, when the…

We constantly see the destruction of nature and wildlife caused by the actions of humans and it’s no surprise that global warming is getting increasingly worse. Despite the fact that over 25 years, there has been a net loss of 129 million hectares of forest worldwide, there has also…

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. Some of the urban jungles across the globe are suffocating in bouts of dense smog and extremely high levels of toxic air pollution. According to the World Health Organisation…

Our planet has an abundance of animals which help ecosystems around the world thrive. Red Pandas, Tigers and Sumatran Tigers are just a few animals that walk this earth. But, what happens when they start to become endangered and potentially go extinct? Unfortunately, we are seeing many species become…

During the 1970s our annual consumption of natural resources began outstripping what Earth could reproduce. A few years later in 1987 Earth Overshoot Day was introduced to mark the exact day when our consumption entered ‘negative equity’. This year that day fell on the 2nd of August, over three months…