environment

More Than Half of Bird Species in Decline, Study Finds A new global assessment reveals that over half of all bird species are experiencing population declines, with deforestation playing a major role in the crisis. With a key biodiversity conference approaching in the UAE, researchers have issued another warning about

Gigantic Antarctic Iceberg Nears Disintegration After Nearly Four Decades Nearly 40 years after separating from Antarctica, a massive iceberg—one of the oldest and largest ever recorded—is rapidly breaking apart in warmer waters and could vanish entirely in weeks. Earlier this year, the iceberg, called A23a, weighed just under

Emmanuel Jekete was attending secondary school in 2019 when his mother’s employer, a Canadian, invited him to try a climbing wall in his garden in Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital. Jekete initially found it simple to scale the plastic holds on the vertical wooden board. But when the wall extended

Equipped with gloves, tongs, and trash bags, dozens of determined volunteers will gather at Hackney Marshes in east London this weekend. The activity, known as Spogomi, originates from Japan, where it was developed in 2008 as a competitive way to encourage public space cleanup. It has since spread to schools

World’s Smallest Snake Rediscovered in Barbados After 20 Years The Barbados threadsnake, once feared extinct, has been found again under a rock in the island’s interior during an ecological survey conducted in March by the environment ministry and the conservation group Re:wild. Measuring just 10cm when fully

Scientists have introduced the term *Anthropocene* to define the current geological era. Although debates persist on its exact starting point, many suggest it began roughly 200 years ago with the Industrial Revolution, marking a period of intensified human influence on the planet’s ecosystems. The shift from the Holocene to