UN Secretary-General António Guterres was briefing reporters in New York after seeing for himself over the weekend the “profoundly shocking” speed at which ice is melting in Antarctica – three times faster than the rate in the early 1990s. New figures reveal that sea ice at the South Pole is now 1.5 million square kilometres…
The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) official Patron of the Oceans, Mr. Pugh explained that he’d undertaken the marathon swim ending at the tip of Manhattan, to emphasise the urgent need to protect the world’s waterways ahead of the UN’s landmark High Seas Treaty and Climate Ambition Summit next week. Sporting his UNEP swim cap, Mr. Pugh…
Streets around UN HQ in Midtown Manhattan will be cordoned off, roadblocks erected, and security heightened and tightened, as world leaders gather to take the pulse of the planet during a week of high-level events and come together to tackle global challenges. The 78th session of UNGA begins on 6 September and will be followed by…
Japanese experts have said in a new study that there may be an unseen planet in the Kuiper belt of our solar system, whose mass may be one and a half to three times that of Earth. Photo: File Tokyo: Astronomers have predicted another mysterious planet in our own solar system, saying that it could…
International Youth Day is marked annually on 12 August and the 2023 edition spotlights green skills and the major role young people will play in driving the much-needed shift towards an environmentally sustainable and climate-friendly mindset. These include technical knowledge and skills that enable the effective use of green technologies and processes in occupational settings,…
NASA’s Perservance rover has discovered organic compounds containing carbon on the surface of Mars. Photo: Courtesy of NASA Florida: NASA has sent a rover named Perservance to Mars and now it is reported that it is very likely to have discovered organic compounds on Mars. This compound may be essential for life. According to a…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured samples on the Sun’s surface. Seen in ultraviolet light, these dark spots are known as coronal holes and are regions where the strong solar wind blows into space. Dark spots on the surface of the sun, known as sun spots. Although they look like freckles on the face of the…
Experts have revealed that the rings around Saturn, the sixth planet of the solar system, are not as old as thought. The research, led by University of Colorado associate professor and physicist Sasha Kempf, revealed that the dust rings around the planet, which is about 4.5 billion years old, are only 400 million years old….
“For indigenous peoples, the land, the forest, water, is life. We depend on the natural environment, and we care for our surroundings. Managing natural resources is a strong part of our way of life. For example, the way we use rotational farming, avoiding monocultures by planting several different many different types of crops on our…
A detailed map of Mars has been created from millions of images taken by NASA spacecraft. Photo: Courtesy of NASA Berkeley, California: The American space agency NASA has released a very detailed map of the planet Mars on more than 100,000 images, which is also the most detailed map of the surface of the red…
