Inside the Hidden Journey from Festive Joy to Landfill, Recycling and Reuse
Every January, across the UK and much of the world, millions of households wake up to the same daunting sight: piles of discarded…
Early last year we made our predictions: Green Targets EU Countries Will Likely Miss in 2025. Let's have a look at what was successful and targets have failed.
By early 2024, policymakers were still…
From Christmas Excess to Veganuary Hope
Each December, as festive lights twinkle from city squares to living-room windows, another pattern flickers quietly beneath our celebration: a pronounced spike in the consumption of food, gifts, plastics…
Offshore wind turbines—those towering giants planted far out at sea—are now one of the most talked-about pillars of the global energy transition. In the last few years, they’ve evolved from niche projects clustered in the…
As the world accelerates toward electrification—from transportation and manufacturing to communication and national infrastructure—one technology stands at the center of this transformation: the battery. Yet despite remarkable progress over the past decade, the lithium-ion battery…
In a century marked by biodiversity loss and ecological upheaval, the fight to prevent species extinctions has never been more urgent. Yet behind the statistics and dire projections stand extraordinary individuals whose dedication has changed…
What the loss of one of Earth’s great ice reservoirs would mean for coastlines, climate, and life on the planet
“Greenland is not just melting ice. It is a lever in the global climate system—and…
For most of modern legal history, animals have lived in a strange category: beloved at home, but treated in court like furniture. That gap is narrowing. In Spain, a landmark reform to the Civil Code…
The annual “ozone hole” over Antarctica closed earlier than usual this year and reached its smallest maximum extent since 2019, according to European and US monitoring agencies—an encouraging milestone for a decades-long global effort to…
Inside the global push to make milk kinder to cows, people and the planet
For most of the last century, a glass of milk was marketed as uncomplicated goodness. But in 2025, it’s increasingly loaded…
The ocean is climbing—quietly, steadily, and now fast enough that scientists are starting to describe year-to-year jumps as “unexpected.” In 2024, global sea level rose more than anticipated, largely because the ocean absorbed extraordinary heat…
The 2025 UN climate summit in Belém, Brazil – COP30 – was billed as the “Implementation COP” and the “COP of Truth”. It ended up being something more bittersweet: a conference that nudged the world…