Alister Doyle

OSLO (Reuters) - Human activities are causing an alarming decline in the variety of plant and animal life on Earth and jeopardizing food, clean water and energy supplies, a U.N.-backed study of biodiversity said on Friday.

Olivia Rosane

The number of pollution sources in China has gone up by more than 50 percent since 2010, Reuters reported Thursday, indicating that the country still has

UNITED NATIONS -- The World Bank and the U.N. are sounding the alarm over a global water crisis. A joint report released Wednesday says that 40 percent of the world's population is affected by water scarcity.

Jonathan Watts

More than 5 billion people could suffer water shortages by 2050 due to climate change, increased demand and polluted supplies, according to a UN report on the state of the world’s water.

Sophie Hares

People should pay attention to the origins of their seafood and push companies to play their part in ocean conservation - Pavan Sukhdev

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At least 6bn people around the world live in corrupt countries, according to Transparency International’s (TI) latest ranking of perceptions of corruption in the public sector.

Kate Ryan

THE GOOD NEWS:

1.5 million volunteers in India planted 66 million trees in 12 hours to set a world record and combat the effects of climate change.

Why not one for global sustainability?

A 'Mission Control' for Planet Earth