Tag: environment danger
Sweden’s highest peak melts away alarming experts
STOCKHOLM: Researchers expressed concern about the rapid pace of climate change after a glacier on Sweden’s Kebnekaise mountain melted so much in sweltering Arctic...
Last straw for Mumbai’s McDonald’s, Burger King as plastic ban takes...
MUMBAI: Burger King, McDonald's and Starbucks are among dozens of companies fined for violating a new ban on single-use plastics in India's commercial capital...
Loss of coral reefs would double flood damage
Loss of coral reefs around the world would double the damage from coastal flooding, and triple the destruction caused by storm surges, researchers have...
Great Barrier Reef on sixth life in 30,000 years
Australia's Great Barrier Reef, under severe stress in a warmer, more acidic ocean, has returned from near-extinction five times in the past 30,000 years,...
People are pillaging the world’s protected areas
Highways are being paved, oil is being drilled and entire cities are sprouting up inside many of the world's nature preserves, imperiling the very...
Plastic in dumps threaten Sri Lanka elephants foraging for food
COLOMBO: At a garbage dump in central Sri Lanka, a herd of wild elephants forage among a mountain of rubbish, swallowing dangerous scraps of...
