Environmental Hazards
Environmental Hazards

While renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough warned the world’s oceans are “under threat now as never before in human history,” green groups on Tuesday said a United Nations resolution to end plastic pollution in the world’s oceans does not go nearly far enough to combat the problem, and stressed that more urgent action is needed to eradicate the damage before it’s too late.

A pair of leading scientists are calling on the global community to spend the next few decades working toward formal protections for at least half of the world’s oceans and lands, warning that as the human population nears it’s projected 10 billion by mid-century, several species will face a heightened threat of extinction. #extinctioncrisis

These fires are threatening the livelihoods of all Amazonian people – indigenous and non-indigenous, urban and rural; destroying the world’s greatest home for wild species of plants and animals, and reducing the forests which store and sequester carbon and help curtail our planet’s climate crisis. #amazonfires