Karen McGlathery is an environmental science professor at the University of Virginia. When she used to swim in the coastal bays of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, the water quickly turned brown and cloudy due to sediment that swirled up from the ocean floor. Today,...
31 major cities, including London, Barcelona, and Milan have recently signed a declaration promising to introduce more greenspace in cities. The agreement signed by the city's Mayores strives for the C40 Cities Network´s goal: to transform 30 to 40 percent...
India has been holding the record for most trees planted in a single day. The record was 50 million trees and has not been broken, until two years ago, according to BBC. In July 2019 Ethiopia announced that the country planted over 350 million trees during a 12 hour...
In 2017, China introduced a ban on the ivory trade in the country, which has yielded results.An annual survey conducted by the World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF, shows that the percentage of Chinese people considering buying ivory has fallen from 43 percent in 2017 to...