Spanish energy giant Repsol vowed to finish by March cleaning up a devastating oil spill that has polluted beaches and killed wildlife.

As dawn breaks over Mexico City's floating gardens, Omar Menchaca paddles his kayak through a maze of canals collecting garbage left by visitors.

Investments in nature play an important role in reaching net zero, but they cannot negate the need to decarbonize.

Rampant deforestation has reduced the elephants' habitat and brought them into increasing conflict with humans, while their ivory tusks are prized in the illegal wildlife trade.

The reef, one of Australia's best-known natural attractions but under threat from global warming, has been a lightning rod for criticism of the ruling conservative coalition's support for fossil fuels.

The kingdom's Pollution Control Department has warned that the spill in the Gulf of Thailand, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) off the coast of Rayong province, could threaten a national park in nearby Ko Samet island.

Deliberate poisoning is likely to blame for the death of dozens of turtles at a lake near Mumbai, Indian wildlife experts said Sunday.

A Lima zoo is racing to save dozens of seabirds, including protected penguins, after 6,000 barrels of crude oil spilled off Peru's coast.

Thousands of barrels of crude oil that were spilled off Peru's central coast have taken a grim toll on the country's environment and economy.

An elephant in Kenya has given birth to twins, an extremely rare event, conservationists said Thursday.

Women won a major victory with the passing of the Elimination of Domestic Violence Law in 2004. The backlash occurred very quickly with the passing of the Pornography Law in 2008, pushed by the Islamist parties.

International brands including Coca Cola and PepsiCo called on Monday for a global pact to combat plastic pollution that includes cuts in plastic production, a key growth area for the oil industry.

The combination of inadequate institutional capacity, greed and corruption resulted in the issuance of thousands of overlapping mining concessions.

Turkmenistan's "Hell" pit has been ablaze since 1971 and previous attempts to put it out have been unsuccessful. 

Sri Lanka paid a Chinese company $6.8 million despite rejecting its shipment of organic fertiliser as substandard.

The city declared a "war on pollution" after winning the Olympics bid in 2015, shutting down dozens of coal plants and relocating heavy industries in order to shed its status as one of the world's most polluted cities.  

A jaguar named Jatobazinho was released into a national park in Argentina Friday as part of a program to boost the numbers of this endangered species.

India's tiger conservation body said 126 of the endangered big cats died in 2021, the most since it began compiling data a decade ago.

There are plenty of opportunities for Indonesia and South Korea to work together in the green sector, including sharing greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

In addition to keeping the concession away from fires, illegal logging to encroachment, the concession owner needs to restore the forest into its original ecosystem. 

The captain and first mate of a freighter that crashed into a coral reef off Mauritius, unleashing the Indian Ocean archipelago's worst environmental disaster, were sentenced to 20 months in jail.

Indonesia is starting to reap more economic benefits as it implements circular economy principles, although the country still has a lot of room to improve its waste collection and management, a ministry official has said.

With hundreds of mountain gorillas in residence, the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda is a conservation triumph. But this resurgence is not without consequences.

Nepal’s largest stupa, one of the holiest pilgrimage sites in Tibetan Buddhism, was festooned with biodegradable prayer flags after devotees replaced the synthetic ones with a greener alternative. 

With Arctic sea ice shrinking at record levels due to global warming, killer whales move further north and risk creating an "ecological imbalance" by preying on endangered species.

Consumed worldwide, eel is particularly popular in Asia, and perhaps nowhere more so than Japan, where it has been eaten on the archipelago for thousands of years.

Russian activists welcomed a move by President Vladimir Putin to close a legal loophole that allowed the capture of sea creatures, particularly whales, for aquariums and other venues.

In Indonesia, which lacks proper waste management infrastructure, most waste goes into landfills and/or ends up in our oceans, harming the environment.

Civil groups say the government should renew the moratorium on oil palm plantations following the recent Constitutional Court ruling against the controversial Job Creation Law, which the government had sought to use in resolving issues arising from the expired moratorium.

Toads are a symbol of prosperity and good fortune in Taiwan, but the unexpected discovery of an invasive species has officials and environmentalists scrambling to contain their spread.