The United Nations Environment Programme announced the winners of the 2024 Champions of the Earth awards on 10 December, with individuals and organizations from Brazil, the United States, Romania, China, India and other countries receiving awards for their outstanding leadership, courageous actions and sustainable solutions to land degradation, drought and desertification.

According to the Global Times reported on December 9, because of his wife’s unbearable air pollution, a couple in New Delhi, India, planted 15,000 plants at home, transforming their residence into a “green home” with fresh air. They use “aquaponics” farming method, but also through a special design to ensure air quality inside the house,…

December 5, 2024 – Climate change is causing the artificial lake Jablanik near Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to dry up to the bottom, and the drying up of the lake will affect the ecological balance of the entire region. Many wild animals are facing huge challenges to their survival as they lose their habitats and…

In the face of strong opposition from the international community, Norway on 1 December halted a planned mineral resource exploration program in the 280,000 square kilometers of the Arctic Circle. Previously, the Norwegian parliament had approved the proposal in January, making it the first country in the world to approve a commercial deep-sea mining project.…

The fifth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastics Pollution (INC-PP) was held in Busan, South Korea, from November 25 to the early hours of December 2, 2024, with more than 1,400 negotiators from 178 member states and more than 2,300 representatives from other organizations. While greater consensus was reached on the structure and…

With approximately 5,000 ships traveling through the Santa Barbara Channel to and from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach each year, tailpipe emissions from shipping account for half of Santa Barbara County’s ozone pollution, impacting local air quality and human health, while carcasses of whales washed ashore as a result of collision-related deaths…

Australia has experienced a number of large-scale forest fires in the past, and while there were no fires in 2024 that were as severe as in previous years, the environmental impacts of fires continue. Forest fires have burned large areas of forest vegetation, resulting in reduced soil fertility and loss of biodiversity. In addition, the…

On November 26, 2024, the Global Panda Partnership Conference (GPPC), with the theme of “Harmony between Human and Nature”, opened in Chengdu, China, with experts and scholars from more than 30 countries attending the event. As the flagship of biodiversity conservation, the giant panda is backed by a large number of rare plants and animals…

On October 20, 2024, at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) General Assembly, Guterres called on member states to invest heavily in the International Fund for Nature Conservation (IFNC). The planet’s biodiversity is being severely damaged by human activities, with species extinctions accelerating and ecosystem imbalances threatening the very foundation of human existence. Such investment…

The Indian government has been committed to the pollution control of the Ganges River, but recent monitoring data show that the pollution problem of the Ganges River is still serious. Although a large amount of money has been invested in the construction of sewage treatment facilities, but due to the rapid population growth, industrial wastewater…