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Few garments are as universal as a pair of jeans. Since 1873, when copper rivets were added to denim worker pants to strengthen the pockets, a design patented by businessman Levi Strauss, blue jeans have crossed borders, classes and generations. From farms to festivals to high-fashion runways, jeans are everywhere.
London, 23 June 2026— The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced efforts to help countries raise their response rate to major methane leaks around the world to 80 percent by 2030, ensuring that the causes of emissions seen from space are investigated and put on a path to mitigation. To date, only 10 early moving countries have achieved an 80 percent response rate.
The initiative will strengthen global monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and mercury to support multilateral environmental agreements
In The Gambia, a group of women gathers in a community garden at the start of another workday. But instead of spraying synthetic pesticides, they are turning kitchen scraps and plant waste into compost after being trained in ways to protect crops, soil and their health.
Phano Liphoto was in his early twenties when he started commuting by bicycle in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2022. The then-university student rode 15 kilometres to campus on lanes painted more than a decade earlier. Many were scattered, poorly maintained and often blocked by minibus taxis.
Every year, millions of people flock to the world’s coral reefs to marvel at the
Residents of Khartoum long referred to the Sunut Forest as the city’s lungs and its heartbeat. The six square-kilometre expanse of acacia trees sat near the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, a sea of green amid the apartment buildings, office towers and factories of Sudan’s bustling capital.
By Mouna Zein
Mouna Zein is a Khartoum native and the Deputy Head of the United Nations Environment Programme office in Sudan
For more than a century, the Sunut Forest was an oasis in the middle of Khartoum, Sudan’s sprawling capital.
NASA’s Artemis II crew – fresh off a record-breaking orbit of the Moon – splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10.
But before they did, the four astronauts and their Orion spacecraft passed through a band of the upper atmosphere that is rife with litter.
Thi Qar, Iraq, 18 February 2026 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Iraqi national authorities today officially handed over a constructed wetland project addressing pollution and drought in Thi Qar, Iraq’s heat-stressed southern region. The project benefits 30,000 local residents through effective wastewater treatment and provides a sustainable nature-ba
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Sand and dust storms drive highest peaks in particulate matter (PM) air pollution in Termez
Regional cooperation on data sharing, forecasting, and joint response is crucial
Fossil fuel heating, traffic, agriculture, and industry also cause dangerous year-round pollution in Termez area
Tashkent (Uzbekistan), 16 December 2025 – Uzbekistan faces urgent threats from sand and d
Late Italian lawyer Manfredi Caltagirone leaves behind a growing observatory, expanding partnerships and conviction on the power of reducing methane emissions
In the Pacific Islands, a group of students turned their frustration into legal firepower, demanding justice for their vulnerable nations and challenging the biggest polluters in court.
Belém, Brazil, 17 November 2025 — The Global Methane Status Report, launched today on the sidelines of COP30 in Belém, shows that while considerable progress has been made since the launch of the Global Methane Pledge in 2021, more work is required to align with the level
In the heart of New Delhi, digitalization is transforming the city's relationship with electricity. Life here, and in the broader Delhi metropolitan area of nearly 35 million people, has historically been punctuated by the unsettling silence of a power cut. For Harbhajan Singh Rana, now a university student, childhood memories are filled with outages.
Geneva, 7 November 2025 - The sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-6), held in Geneva from 3 to 7 November 2025, brought together over 1,000 participants in person and nearly 4,000 online viewers.
Dubai, 14 October 2025 — Major food and grocery delivery platforms today launched an industry-led alliance to accelerate the shift to zero-emission food and grocery deliveries — the Deliver-E Coalition aims to switch to zero-emission two- and three-wheeler vehicles globally.
In the historical center of Quito, Ecuador, electric cargo bikes and trikes glide beneath the neoclassical façade of the Carondelet Palace, their hum replacing the growl of petrol-powered motorcycles that once ruled these UNESCO World Heritage streets.
Nairobi, 23 September 2025 - Two years of escalating conflict have caused unprecedented levels of environmental damage in the Gaza Strip, damaging its soils, freshwater supplies and coastline, finds a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Nairobi, 23 September 2025 – The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and American cleantech CEO Chris Kemper announced today the selection of three environmental entrepreneurs from India, Kenya and the United States as the 2025 Young Champions of the Earth.Winners are recognized for groundbreaking contributions that advance a global circular economy and improving e
Nearly every day a stainless-steel flask, about the size of a large soda bottle, arrives at a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) laboratory in the American city of Boulder.
The containers, which hail from places as far away as Australia and Antarctica, hold something that isn’t typically shipped halfway around the world: air. But this invisible cargo has a higher scientific calling.
Plastic pollution permeates every corner of the planet—even in our bodies in the form of microplastics. World Environment Day 2025 called for collective action to tackle plastic pollution.
Car exhaust. Factory smoke. Wildfire haze. Chances are, no matter where on Earth you live, you’re exposed to some form of air pollution almost every day.
Throughout the 1990s, Mexico City was considered one of the most polluted cities in the world. Since then, Mexico has taken significant steps to combat air pollution, particularly in the capital and surrounding Valley of Mexico.
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