DAY AND NIGHT, NEW SMOKE is born. The weather has turned warmer, and the lack of rainfall prepares dried-out grasses and shrubs for fire. The burning begins in a few spots—unseen in the mountains—and ...

Removing invasive eucalyptus trees from Anthony Chabot Regional Park could help mitigate wildfire risk where wildland-urban ...

The program, a collaboration among the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, NASA and the now shuttered U.S. aid agency, used ...

JAKARTA: Papua province’s Youtefa Bay, known for its azure waters and lush mangrove forests, has seen infrastructure development that has helped improve locals’ lives and the economy.

State Key Joint Laboratory of Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China ...

The ambitious nation-wide push, supported in part by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is designed to stem air pollution deaths ... responsible for the loss of 10 million hectares of ...

Peatlands are critical ecosystems for carbon storage and biodiversity, containing more carbon than all the world's forests despite covering just 3% of the ...

Environmental concerns are also paramount. Mining activities have led to significant degradation of forests, pollution of rivers and soil and increased poaching due to population displacement. For ...

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration urged people to work from home for the rest of the week if they can, with air pollution forecast to worsen after already forcing the temporary closure of ...

The burning of forests, fabric scraps and various types of industrial ... The ministry explained that using fires without air pollution control systems to burn scraps of fabric, leather or other ...

It is early winter when MacKenzie, an atmospheric scientist and director of Birmingham University Institute of Forest Research, leads me further into this small patch of woodland here in ...