Progress made in fundraising for poor to fight climate change 8/10/2015

The world’s richest countries mobilized $61.8 billion in public and private funds in 2014 to help poor countries combat and adapt to climate change, almost two-thirds of a goal to raise $100 billion a year starting in 2020, according to a report released on Wednesday. ...more

14 elephants die of poisoning in Zimbabwe: officials 8/10/2015

At least 14 elephants died from poisoning in three separate incidents in Zimbabwe last month with poachers suspected of being behind 11 of the deaths, parks authorities said Wednesday. ...more

Eye on Earth Summit kicks off in Abu Dhabi 7/10/2015

As the first major global conference on the environment since the United Nations adoption of the sustainable development goals, the Eye on Earth Summit convened in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday with hopes of better understanding why our planet is heating up. ...more

Choking Delhi vows pollution tax, car-free days to improve air 7/10/2015

India's polluted capital, New Delhi, will within two months impose a tax on commercial vehicles entering the city and prohibit the use of cars on certain busy routes once every month, its transport minister said on Tuesday. ...more

ADB to lend Bangladesh $45 million for water resource project 7/10/2015

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is part-funding expansion of a water resources project in southwest Bangladesh that has sharply increased agriculture production and benefited nearly 200,000 people, it said on Tuesday. ...more

Korean energy economist to head UN climate science panel 7/10/2015

A South Korean professor of climate change economics will lead the Nobel Prize-winning group of climate scientists who keep track of global warming. ...more

Sneezing monkey and walking fish among new species discovered in Himalayas 7/10/2015

A monkey which sneezes in the rain and a “walking” fish are among more than 200 new species discovered in the Eastern Himalayas in recent years. ...more

India court gives New Delhi three days to come up with plan to fight pollution 6/10/2015

India's Supreme Court has given New Delhi three days to come up with a plan to clean up the air in a city ranked by the World Health Organization as the most polluted in the world. ...more

California closes loophole in ivory trade 6/10/2015

It will be illegal to sell almost all ivory products in California under a measure signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown that closes a loophole in the state's nearly 40-year-old ban on the sale of elephant ivory. ...more

Nature thrives in Chernobyl, site of worst nuclear disaster 6/10/2015

Some 30 years after the world's worst nuclear accident blasted radiation across Chernobyl, the site has evolved from a disaster zone into a nature reserve, teeming with elk, deer and wolves, scientists said on Monday. ...more