Borneo's Vanishing Forests: Palm Oil Farming

Demand for palm oil is expected to more than double by 2030. For mindful consumers weary of contributing to environmental degradation, it is increasingly difficult to avoid. One estimate suggests that more than 50 percent of all supermarket products contain it in one form or another.

Watch Leonardo DiCaprio's new documentary "Before the Flood" here

Join Leonardo DiCaprio as he explores the topic of climate change, and discovers what must be done today to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.

'Last Chance' to Limit Global Warming to Safe Levels, UN Scientists Warn

New study says that unless nations ramp up their carbon-reduction pledges before 2020, it will be nearly impossible to keep warming to 2 degrees.

Health Studies Funded By Beverage Companies Are Dangerously Misleading

An analysis of 15 years' worth of experimental research into the health risks posed by sweetened beverages is raising questions about the impartiality and credibility of studies funded by the soda industry.

These Antarctic Glaciers Are Melting At A 'Staggering' Rate

A new study shows that three of the Amundsen sea’s frozen gateways are melting away faster than we realised, raising the spectre of an ice sheet collapse that could trigger a metre of global sea level rise.

'New Era of Climate Change Reality,' WMO Warns

With atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations having reached 400 ppm 2015 and with no signs of them abating in 2016 the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that "a new era of climate change reality" is upon us.

Poor food 'risks health of half the world'

As the population grows over the next 20 years half the world will be left malnourished, an independent panel of experts on food and agriculture warns.

Tax fossil fuels or risk kids' future: US climate scientist

Levels of the planet's three most dangerous greenhouse gases are rising, and fossil fuels must be taxed to protect children from the turmoil of rising seas and extreme storms, a US climate scientist warns.

Barack Obama: The world is too small for fundamentalism and racism

In a wide ranging speech to the United Nations General Assembley, US President Barack Obama said the world is too small to resort to fundamentalism and racism.

Bangladesh is building a dirty and expensive coal plant next to the world's largest mangrove forest

A controversial new coal power plant being built in Bangladesh is already running out of friends. Environmentalists worry it will spell disaster for the world’s largest mangrove forest.

The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold..

Carbon dioxide just hit its annual minimum and failed to dip below 400 ppm.

The Sugar Industry Was Funding Research Downplaying Its Effect On Health

A recent discovery of documents that are nearly 50 years old has shown how the practice of funding specific research has been employed by the sugar industry for decades, producing influential evidence that diminishes the impact that sugar has on heart disease.

The first dolphins have been slaughtered in this year's annual Taiji hunt

Japanese fisherman have slaughtered 15-20 dolphins this Friday in the annual hunt in Taiji.

'Catastrophic' loss of 10pc of wilderness across the world over past two decades

Planet Earth has lost one tenth of its area of wilderness since 1993, equivalent to half of Australia in size, new research reveals.

Toxic air pollution nanoparticles discovered in human brain

Tiny magnetic particles from air pollution have for the first time been discovered to be lodged in human brains– and researchers think they could be a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease.