Students return to streets demanding climate actions

Healthy soil is critical for global food security as well as the thousands of species that call it home. On World Soil Day, DW looks at what can be done to protect soil in the face of drought and intensifying heat.

Tiwi people argued they should have been consulted before a massive gas drilling project started near their island, the Federal Court of Australia ruled. The ruling could slow other offshore projects.

A greenhouse in a box and a kelp forest restoration project are just two contenders in this year’s Earthshot environmental prize in Boston. Prince William will award five groups £1 million each to expand their projects.

More than 1,700 environmental and land defenders have been killed in the last decade. Most of them were Indigenous people — and most were in Latin America, a DW analysis shows.

The US has put forward draft rules that would cut emissions of natural gas. It’s part of a broader global push to limit the powerful planet-heating gas. But experts say it still may not be enough.

Authorities say flows of lava are not yet threatening local communities, but that it is impossible to predict how long the volcano’s first eruption in four decades would last.

Negotiators are meeting this week to start hammering out the details of a global agreement on plastic pollution. What’s on the table?

One million animal and plant species are critically endangered. An international convention is supposed to stop using trade restrictions.

It’s that time of year again: the pre-Christmas consumer frenzy also known as Black Friday. During the biggest shopping event of the year, retailers slash their prices. But what does that mean for the environment?

Driven by the energy crisis, demand for heat pumps is on the rise — even for older houses and buildings. Here’s a breakdown of whether it makes sense to switch.