Britain's second-biggest supermarket, Sainsbury's, vowed on Friday to halve plastic packaging by 2025, promising to switch to alternative materials and refillable options to meet consumer demand for less waste.

We will have to give up the convenience of riding private vehicles, pay more for environmentally friendly fuels and regularly check our vehicles to meet the emissions standards.

British style icons including designer Vivienne Westwood and model Lily Cole condemned throwaway fashion culture as London Fashion Week got under way on Friday.

The skin and blubber of bottlenose dolphins in the English Channel contain alarmingly high concentrations of mercury and other toxic pollutants, researchers said Thursday.

New York authorities gave their blessings Thursday to children who want to skip school to join Swedish environment activist Greta Thunberg in a climate protest due next week.

Javier Bardem is deep in talks to play King Triton in "The Little Mermaid" -- but the Spanish actor has already gone under the sea for his new ocean documentary premiering at the Toronto film festival.

Growing inequality and climate change will not only derail progress towards global sustainability goals but threaten human existence, leading scientists said at the United Nations on Wednesday.

Beijing "is on track" to reduce PM2.5 -- tiny particles that are the deadliest air pollutants -- by nearly 20 percent this year compared to 2018, Swiss air purification technology company IQAir's research arm AirVisual said.

As climate change brings more frequent and extreme heatwaves around the world, demand for air conditioners is soaring, with 10 new units sold every second on average - but the poor may be left to swelter, said a University of Oxford researcher.

Call it a shock discovery: DNA research has revealed two entirely new species of electric eel in the Amazon basin, including one capable of delivering a record-breaking jolt.

Climate activists on Tuesday turned the Limmat River in Zurich a bright fluorescent green in protest against what they said is the "impending collapse of the (global) ecosystem".

Scientists said Monday they have spotted six vaquita marinas, one of the most endangered animals on Earth, off the coast of Mexico, reviving hopes for the survival of the world's smallest porpoise.

Germany plans to ban single-use plastic bags from next year, joining a growing movement to fight global pollution, the environment minister said Friday.

The Indonesian Youth Marine Debris Summit (IYMDS), held this year from Aug. 24 to 28, brought together young minds from all provinces to address one of the country's worst problems: Waste.

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan emphasized that improving air quality should not be limited by regional administrations' jurisdictions, because it occurs across territorial boundaries.

Indeed, fire in “rain” forests, is a new major risk to the orangutan ecosystem. Some climate-habitat modeling indicates large amounts of orangutan habitat will become unsuitable due to climate change, a three- to five-fold greater decline in habitat than that anticipated from deforestation alone.

Indonesia plans to move its center of government from Jakarta to a 180,000-hectare area spanning two regencies in the eastern part of Borneo. What are the pros and cons?

This summer, US airlines have enjoyed booming flight demand, immune to a Swedish-born "flight shaming" movement that has hit air travel in Europe, where environmentally conscious travelers are choosing trains over planes.

According to the Environment and Forestry Ministry’s law enforcement division, the office has sent as many as 210 warning letters to companies registered as peatland concession holders about alleged negligence that led to forest fires.

Equipped with powerful magnets, history enthusiasts and environmentalists scour France's rivers, pulling out bits of scrap metal, bikes, scooters and the odd kitchen appliance.

Soon, Jamal's voice will no longer ring out over the mountain slopes he's roamed for years with his herd in northern Cyprus. To feed the concrete demands of hotels, holiday homes and road-building, quarries are eating away at the mountains where his goats graze.

Inspired by Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, a group of young activists from several Latin American countries have converged in Chile to exchange ideas on how to battle climate change.

Replanted forests and those left to recover after logging activities can preserve vital insect and plant life in a similar way to old-growth forests, scientists have found, as interest grows in expanding the world's forests to curb climate change.

Debt-ridden Air India said Thursday it will stop using single-use plastic and replace packaging with eco-friendly paper and wooden cutlery, as the government ramps up its "clean India" mission.

The world must act now to avoid conflict over food, land and water spreading from hot spots such as Syria to power centres like London and New York, according to a top science writer.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in very poor condition because of climate change, over fishing and land clearing, as it downgraded the reef's status to the lowest level, which could jeopardise its World Heritage status.

Swedish climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg joined hundreds of other teenagers protesting outside the United Nations Friday in her first demonstration on US soil since arriving by zero-carbon yacht.

Sheep have been reintroduced to London’s Hampstead Heath for the first time since the 1950s to test an environmentally friendly way of maintaining the area.

“At the last location, we found hundreds of dead suckermouth catfish. In addition, the water of the river is blackened, smelly and foamy,” the Jakarta Ombudsman head has said.

The hearing for the air pollution citizen lawsuit filed by Tim Advokasi Gerakan Ibukota at the Central Jakarta District Court is adjourned to September 12.