This archive covers environmental progress from across the globe — habitat recoveries, clean-energy advances, pollution rollbacks, and policy wins that show ecosystems and communities adapting and improving. Each story is rooted in evidence, focused on what’s working, and drawn from sources doing the actual work.
The commitment will ensure that these companies work collectively to help double the nation’s resource productivity and reduce avoidable waste by 2030. They are required to set targets to improve the productivity that are key for business.
A new independent study, carried out by Sky Ocean Rescue, has found that there has been a shift in the public’s perception of plastic.
A U.S. District Court judge restored federal protections to grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park, overturning a Trump administration finding.
A coalition of investors managing over US$5.6 trillion in assets joined a coalition of more than 70 large food companies in calling for zero deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado region.
The cleanup system is heading to a location 240 nautical miles offshore for a two-week trial before continuing its journey toward the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
First in a new series of Sustainable Development Goal bonds issued by the World Bank will aim to fund projects that promote clean water and healthy oceans.
The World Heritage Committee credited Belize’s safeguarding measures as the cause for the historic conservational victory.
The new money will be spent on a taskforce to investigate the international gangs and powerful figures behind them.
The pledge is the most ambitious yet of the global actions to combat plastic pollution that are taking place in 60 nations around the world.
In a historic decision, Chile’s House of Representatives voted this Wednesday to ban the usage of plastic bags in all types of shops across the entire territory, making it the only country to prohibit them in the American continent.
