The 48-year-old Yang Feiyue's job is to abseil down cliffs on central China's Tianmen mountain -- an area famed for its natural beauty but plagued by plastic and other waste.

Some corals can recover from bleaching even in long heatwaves as long as humans don't interfere, scientists said Tuesday, raising hopes for the endangered underwater ecosystems essential to much marine life. 

The ACRF pandemic exit strategy, if implemented properly in a principled manner through green recovery, could tackle the jobs-growth-sustainability trinity as a "mission possible" towards a new social contract for the region's future.

Sustainable palm oil does not exist because many growers lack transparency, fail to consult indigenous people, and are able to flout environmental rules set by ethical certification schemes, an Indonesian youth climate activist said.

Conservationists in Ecuador have found a nest of endangered leatherback sea turtles, a whopper of a species that can weigh up to a ton and be three meters long.

Swiss food giant Nestle on Thursday unveiled a multi-billion program to slash its carbon footprint, aiming to halve emissions by 2030.

The health of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's most extensive and spectacular coral reef ecosystem, is in a critical state and deteriorating as climate change warms up the waters in which it lies.

After record wildfires ravaged the US West Coast, replanting trees amid the apocalyptic, ash-covered landscape is a daunting task.

Hydrogen-powered car manufacturer Riversimple is hoping to steal a march on competitors ahead of Britain's promised "green revolution" that would see petrol-powered cars banned within 10 years.

Germany will trial a new hydrogen-powered train, signaling a transition away from gas-guzzling diesel engines as it aims for a carbon-neutral future.

Traces of microplastics have been found close to the top of Mount Everest, likely originating from equipment used by the hundreds of climbers who summit the world's highest peak every year.

The European Union unveiled plans to transform its electricity system to rely mostly on renewables within a decade and increase its offshore wind energy capacity 25-fold by 2050.

As the world’s climate warms, parasite-carried wildlife diseases will move north, with animals in cold far-north and high-altitude regions expected to suffer the most dramatic increases.

Young activists said they did not understand why political leaders have failed to grasp the severity of the climate crisis and respond to it with the same urgency as the coronavirus pandemic, opening two weeks of online discussions.

A rise in huge, opaque infrastructure and mining projects threatens to destroy and open up the world's last remaining rainforests to development, researchers warned.

The population of most wild animals with a backbone -- mammals, amphibians, birds, reptiles and fish -- is stable. 

Anglo-Dutch consumer giant Unilever said it has set a new annual sales target of one billion euros for plant-based food products as consumers turn away from meat and dairy.

The three largest glaciers in Greenland could melt faster than even the worst-case warming predictions, research published Tuesday showed.

Health authorities say the most widespread anti-COVID weapon -- surgical masks -- must be thrown away after a single use, but environmental concerns are pushing some scientists to question this recommendation.

A United Nations expert has weighed in on a civil lawsuit brought against a number of Indonesian officials for their failure to improve poor air quality in the capital Jakarta.

Finland is the only EU country whose bedrock is known to contain all the major battery minerals -- including cobalt and lithium -- and the Nordic nation is drawing up plans to exploit these resources in order to become a major industry player.

Amid the shortage of human testing in the early phase, sewage-based surveillance could be chosen as a cheap, noninvasive and sensitive tool to predict the outbreak.

Indonesia is grappling with what health authorities have described as a “significant increase” in medical waste during the COVID-19 outbreak, with a shortage in processing facilities forcing the government to allow hospitals to burn their waste without license in times of emergency.

Even if humanity stopped emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, Earth will warm for centuries to come and oceans will rise by meters.

The COVID-19 pandemic has derailed Indonesia’s social forestry program, which grants local communities the right to manage state forests.

Japanese engineering giant Toshiba will not build any more coal-fired power plants and will shift to renewable energy in a bid to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Even if all fossil fuel emissions ended immediately, greenhouse gasses from the food we eat could drive global temperatures above internationally agreed warming limits. 

“Palm oil needs a lot of land. Of course it will sacrifice the forest. Deforestation, land degradation and agrarian conflicts are bound to occur,” one activist said.

At a workshop in the South Korean capital, two environmental activists melt down old plastic bottle caps that thousands of volunteers known as "sparrows" have collected in a bid to fight a tide of plastic the novel coronavirus has helped unleash.

Coronavirus lockdowns in Europe have led to some environmental improvements such as better air quality and lower carbon emissions, but they are temporary and coupled with a surge in single-use plastic.