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Dan Stothart, Regional Humanitarian Affairs Officer for UN Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean, gives a first-hand account from Brazil’s Roraima State. “I feel like an animal!” she told me. I could see a…
The millions of tons of plastic swirling around the world’s oceans have garnered a lot of media attention recently. But plastic pollution arguably poses a bigger threat to the plants and animals – including humans…
“It is a splendid city, beautifully built; the climate is pleasant, the water healthy,” the 10th-Century Muslim geographer al-Muqqadasi once described the Iraqi city of Mosul. In July 2017 the city was liberated…
UN Environment conducted an independent audit of the sites affected by the 2006 waste dumping from the Probo Koala in various parts of Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The audit finds that none of the sites where waste from…
In August 2006, the cargo ship Probo Koala discharged 500 tons of toxic waste in Abidjan killing 17 people and poisoning thousands more. In 1988 thousands of barrels of hazardous waste disguised as building…
The Bamako Convention is a treaty of African nations prohibiting the import into Africa of any hazardous (including radioactive) waste. The convention came into force in 1998. The Second Conference of the Parties…
10 January 2018, Nairobi–UN Environment and the World Health Organization have agreed a new, wide-ranging collaboration to accelerate action to curb environmental health risks that cause an estimated 12.6 million…
By Ellen MacArthur, Founder and Chair of Trustees, Ellen MacArthur Foundation Over 8 million tons of plastic pollute the oceans each year. The problem is so severe that, if nothing changes, there could be more…
Mountains are the water towers of the world and home to valuable flora and fauna, but they are under pressure from waste and pollution as never before. Did you know that a banana skin dropped in the Austrian Alps…
Cheap, light and mould-able into myriad shapes, plastic bottles have conquered the world. Unfortunately, they have also become the kings of trash, accumulating at a mind-boggling rate to create one of the biggest…
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