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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
In the realm of knowledge and science, report covers can be provocative and useful tools to convey complex ideas and convert potential readers of a report into actual ones.
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.
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
As the streets of Kampala, Uganda come to life early in the morning, Dorothy Namawejje fastens her helmet and revs the engine of her electric motorcycle. Namawejje, a single mother of two, is a taxi driver who ferries passengers around the city's frenetic roads, her bike humming quietly beneath her.
There are more than 100 million lakes dotting the planet, according to one prominent study.
When Iya Kande’s youngest son turned two months old, she began using a skin-lightening soap on his face and body.
Kande, whose last name has been changed to protect her identity, lives in northern Nigeria. She was hoping a fairer complexion would ingratiate the boy with his grandmother, who like many in the region had come to equate light skin with beauty.
Sydney/Nairobi, 16 July 2025 – The UN Environment Programme’s International Methane Emissions Observatory (IMEO), with the support of Australia, today launched a new research project aimed at improving the accuracy of methane emissions data from coal mines.
On the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, sits a bustling garment factory owned by Cape Union Mart, one of the country’s best-known outdoor apparel retailers.
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