environment

Panelist for the online event on the environmental impact of the war in Ukraine.

LIVE Event: The Environmental Cost of the War in Ukraine

Join The World’s Carolyn Beeler for a conversation with Ukrainian environmental scientist Kateryna Polyanska and Doug Weir from The Conflict and Environment Observatory.

LIVE Event: The Environmental Cost of the War in Ukraine
Left to right: Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023 after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed; Screen shot form video; Vehicles on fire at an oil depot after missiles struck the facility in an area controlled by Russian-bac

VIDEO: The environmental impact of the war in Ukraine

VIDEO: The environmental impact of the war in Ukraine
Australian flooding

Climate migration has begun, and it's only getting worse, expert says

Climate migration has begun, and it's only getting worse, expert says
A small crowd of people are shown examining green ballots next to rows of boxes.

Main opposition party against mining wins Greenland election

Main opposition party against mining wins Greenland election
Invasive species

Report: Invasive species target islands, coastal areas while upending ecosystems

Report: Invasive species target islands, coastal areas while upending ecosystems
Beijing power plant

Globe-trotting pollutants pose a larger threat to public health than previously thought

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, toxic air pollutants produced by combustion, are linked to lung cancer and other serious health problems. Recent findings suggest that these tiny particles travel long distances and significantly increase overall health risks.

Globe-trotting pollutants pose a larger threat to public health than previously thought
Death of Evidence rally

What lessons can Canada offer the US on the suppression of scientific research?

As the Trump administration begins to reverse dozens of environmental and other policies created over the past few decades, a scientist in Canada shares her experience under Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

What lessons can Canada offer the US on the suppression of scientific research?
Rancher Bill Johnson and wildlife researcher Carol Bogezi on Johnson's ranch in Washington's Teanaway Valley. Bogezi has been working with Johnson and other ranchers in eastern Washington to try to find a way to help them live more amicably with wolves.

How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda

Would you buy wolf-friendly meat? That's one idea Carol Bogezi has to help cattle ranchers in Washington state learn to live with wolves.

How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda
A boy collects plastic from a garbage-covered river in Manila, 2010.

Plastic trash is a big problem. How much do you throw away? (QUIZ)

The consequences of plastic waste for humanity could be more severe than climate change.

Plastic trash is a big problem. How much do you throw away? (QUIZ)
Harvest moon over Coal Harbor

Canada is moving ahead with an aggressive carbon reduction plan

Canada is pushing forward on its initiative to rid the country of coal-fired power plants by 2030 and put a minimum national price on carbon by 2019.

Canada is moving ahead with an aggressive carbon reduction plan
Burned bus in Bengaluru, India

In India's Silicon Valley, the water wars have turned deadly

Water wars aren't new in India. But last week was the first time in recent history that civilians died, after protests turned ugly in the southern city of Bangalore.

In India's Silicon Valley, the water wars have turned deadly
Amazon Rainforest

Nearly 10 percent of the world's wilderness has disappeared since the 1990s

Areas of the world that are untouched by humans are disappearing — and that's a big problem, researchers say.

Nearly 10 percent of the world's wilderness has disappeared since the 1990s
Elephants

Survey shows 30 percent decline in African savannah elephant population

Researchers say the dramatic drop, revealed by a three-year aerial study, is largely due to poaching.

Survey shows 30 percent decline in African savannah elephant population
Firefighters battle the so-called Blue Cut Fire

The US Forest Service is being overwhelmed by all the fires it must fight

The agency's budget is now more than 50 percent dedicated to fighting forest fires, which takes away from what the agency could do for preservation and recreation.

The US Forest Service is being overwhelmed by all the fires it must fight
A mahout splashes water on his elephants

Bangladeshis plunge into a pond to save an elephant that wandered 621 miles from its herd

An Indian elephant wandered into Bangladesh where it ran amok before being tranquilized and nearly downing in a pond, before villages jumped into the water and held it up.

Bangladeshis plunge into a pond to save an elephant that wandered 621 miles from its herd