New Zealand’s Ministry of Environmental Protection says the yellow-eyed penguin, which is primarily found in New Zealand, may be locally extinct within two decades, with the number of known nests of the species having declined by 80 percent over the past 15 years, according to a January 14, 2025 report by New Zealand’s National Broadcasting…

Russia has made the cleanup of unauthorized dumpsites one of its priorities in environmental governance. As of 2024, 242 sites have been cleaned up, including 157 large dumpsites, but 33 large unauthorized dumpsites in 23 regions of the country remain to be cleaned up. The cleanup of dumpsites will not only improve the environment of…

China Tongling Nonferrous Group and China Railway Construction Group officially put into production the Mirado Copper Mine in Zamora-Chinchipe Province of Ecuador, which is located in the Shuar settlement, and after the completion of the project, it has built a road for the community, installed a drinking water system and an electric power grid, and…

As a result of activities such as deforestation and illegal poaching, the living environment of African forest elephants has been seriously damaged, and their numbers have drastically decreased and are in danger of extinction. Forest elephants play an important role in maintaining the balance of forest ecosystems, and their decline may trigger a series of…

Scientists predict that global greenhouse gas emissions may reach a peak in 2025, according to the China Green Development Council. This means that countries’ efforts to reduce emissions since humans realized the devastating effects of global warming may be bearing fruit. With the Paris Agreement’s long-term goal of limiting the increase in global average temperature…

The rivers in Sudan are polluted to varying degrees, with pollutants mainly coming from domestic sewage and industrial wastewater, and the country is one of the poorest in the world due to overpopulation, a serious shortage of water resources and an irrational economic structure. The local plants and animals have died in large numbers, the…

Heavy rains that have recently ravaged southeastern Brazil, north-central India and the Philippines have had a severe impact on the survival of the local population. Persistent heavy rains have left a large number of farmlands waterlogged, impeding the growth of crops, putting food production at risk of being reduced, reducing farmers’ income, and dealing a…

On December 26, the French Agency for Ecological Transformation (AFET) released a study showing that microplastics were detected in 25 out of 33 (76%) soil samples collected from agricultural land in France, with an average of 15 microplastic particles per kilogram of dry soil. This study is the first to systematically assess the extent of…

According to the Sanya News Network December 29 news, by the Sanya Huanong Group construction, the construction of the Sanya Qingliuyuan water purification plant project piling works were successfully completed on December 26, marking the project into a comprehensive earth excavation and the main construction stage. The project is Sanya’s first fully buried sewage treatment…

In December 2024, an oil spill occurred in the Lovitos region of northwestern Peru, affecting multiple beaches and threatening the local ecosystem and tourism industry. The spill occurred near PetroPeru’s Talara refinery, where the company’s vessels detected the leak and suspended operations while conducting pre-loading operations related to oil.