Clean Up UAE campaign attracts big crowds 16/12/2015

The Clean Up Campaign 2015 has wrapped up for another year, attracting the largest turnout across the country since the environmental exercise began in 2002, organizers say. ...more

Climate change puts Venezuelan amphibians at risk of extinction 16/12/2015

Venezuelan frogs and toads are in critical danger due to climate change as rising temperatures complicate reproduction and spread a deadly fungus, say scientists, who liken the species to canaries in a coalmine warning of imminent danger. ...more

Doomsday Arctic seed vault to receive two deposits in 2016 16/12/2015

Two new consignments of crop seeds will be deposited next year in the "doomsday vault" built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global supplies. ...more

Sponsor the Great Barrier Reef and improve its health, says government 16/12/2015

Wealthy companies are being asked to sponsor the Great Barrier Reef as part of a new initiative to improve its health. ...more

Arctic air temps highest since 1900: global report 16/12/2015

The Arctic is heating up, with air temperatures the hottest in 115 years, and the melting ice destroying walrus habitat and forcing some fish northward, a global scientific report said Tuesday. ...more

The ocean is contaminated by trillions more pieces of plastic than thought 16/12/2015

Somewhere between 15 trillion and 51 trillion pieces of plastic litters the world’s oceans, a new study has found. That’s three to 10 times more plastic than scientists had previously estimated. ...more

Dubai cities summit seeks low-carbon strategies 15/12/2015

Fresh on the heels of the COP 21 climate summit in Paris, the United Nations is set to open a new environmental policy centre in Dubai to foster new low-carbon, green-building initiatives in the UAE and Middle East. ...more

UN wants world leaders to sign climate deal on April 22 15/12/2015

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday he is inviting world leaders to the United Nations on April 22 — Earth Day — to sign the landmark agreement to tackle climate change that was reached in Paris. ...more

EU parliament panel rejects car pollution rules as too lax 15/12/2015

The European parliament's environmental committee voted on Monday against new car pollution rules they say are too lenient in the light of the Volkswagen scandal which exposed loopholes in existing emissions tests. ...more

Aircraft pollution a worrisome gap in Paris deal: EU climate boss 15/12/2015

The omission of aviation from the Paris climate deal could cause "a very big problem" if talks next year fail to make progress on a global plan to reduce aircraft pollution, the European climate chief said on Monday. ...more