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Read more about 17% of food production wasted worldwide, new UN report estimates on Business Standard. Instead of finishing your leftovers, you let them go bad and buy takeout.

A United Nations report estimates 17% of food produced each year is wasted. That's 931 million metric tons of food, doubled from a decade ago.

Nearly one third of all chemicals commonly found in plastic-based childrens toys are Chemicals of Concern (CoCs), according to a recent study out of Denmark.

The roots of our current crisis can be seen clearly in Genesis, Chapter 1, where “God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth,” writes Trevor Hancock. Times Colonist Our relationship with the Earth has long been troubled. Thanks largely to two key developments — the adoption of Judeo-Christian beliefs and the philosophy...

From urban farming to sustainable design, young people could be set to enter a new world of work as green careers are set to expand in the next decade..

Critical year to ‘reset our relationship with nature’ — UN chief February 23, 2021 A farmer harvests rice in Bantaeng, Indonesia. — courtesy CIFOR/Tri Saputro GENEVA — During this time of “crisis and fragility”, the UN chief told the United Nations Environment Assembly on Monday that human well-being and prosperity can be vastly improved by prioritizing nature-based solutions. Painting a picture of the turmoil wreaked by COVID-19, wh...

The Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency (GACERE) was launched on Monday in Nairobi to boost the growth of the circular economy while enhancing resource use efficiency to reduce carbon and water footprint. The alliance, launched on the sidelines of the virtual fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5), is expected to ...

The company is beginning to test adding labels to posts about climate change, directing people to its newly expanded Climate Science Information Center.

Nzambi Matee is the founder of Gjenge Makers, a company that uses high and low density polyethylene and polypropylene as raw materials in order to create building materials.

One of the few pluses to come out of the Covid pandemic has been a worldwide reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.