India floats ambitious goal: 100 percent electric cars 30/3/2016

India has a grandiose vision for its 1.2 billion people to drive only electric vehicles by 2030. And that’s not even the most ambitious part — the government thinks it can do it without spending a dime. ...more

Scientists may have found a way to predict heat waves — 50 days in advance 30/3/2016

A new study just published in Nature Geoscience indicates that meteorologists are close to being able to predict heat waves on the East Coast up to 50 days before they occur. ...more

UNEP Mourns Passing of Former Executive Director, Mostafa Tolba Monday March 28, 2016 29/3/2016

Former Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Mostafa Tolba, has passed away at the age of 93. Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director of UNEP, issued the following statement: ...more

Poland approves large-scale logging in Europe's last primeval forest 29/3/2016

Poland has approved large-scale logging in Europe’s last primeval woodland in a bid to combat a beetle infestation despite protests from scientists, ecologists and the European Union. ...more

UN Committee Begins Work on High Seas Treaty 29/3/2016

A United Nations committee has started work on an international treaty that could protect everything from threatened leatherback sea turtles to deep sea corals thousands of years old in international waters. ...more

Drought-hit Thailand sends up the Royal Rainmakers 29/3/2016

When drought strikes, Thailand turns to its Royal Rainmakers -- an airborne team which seeds the clouds over the kingdom. ...more

Arctic sea ice reaches new record low mark for wintertime 29/3/2016

The growth of Arctic sea ice this winter peaked at the lowest maximum level on record, thanks to extraordinarily warm temperatures, federal scientists said Monday. ...more

Japanese fleet returns with quota of 333 whales in Antarctic 25/3/2016

Japan's whaling fleet returned Thursday with 333 whales it caught in its first Antarctic harvest since an international court ruling stopped its hunt two years ago. ...more

Developing world overtakes West in renewables investments 25/3/2016

A U.N.-backed report says global investments in solar, wind and other sources of renewable energy reached a record $286 billion last year. For the first time the developing world accounted for the majority. ...more

First contact in decades with rare rhino in Indonesia's Borneo 25/3/2016

Environmentalists have made physical contact with a Sumatran rhino on the Indonesian part of Borneo island for the first time in over 40 years, the WWF said Wednesday, hailing a "major conservation success". ...more