“We find plastics there,” said Aron Stubbins, a professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University.

This will have a positive impact on the environment. Due to growing populations many cities, towns and villages are growing larger to meet the needs of humans. This often destroys the habitats ...

Natural ecosystems comprise groups of species capable of living in the specific conditions of a biological system. However, if we visit a specific natural area, we will not find all the species ...

Activists and ordinary citizens defending their rights to land and the environment face intimidation, legal harassment, and deadly violence. Human Rights Watch champions human rights law to force ...

The scale of human impact on Earth To make matters more complicated ... By understanding what our planet has undergone in the past and how life responded to environmental changes, we can more ...

The international legal order is floundering. The geopolitical and resource policy priorities of the United States are shifting.These changes now implicate the international framework for governing ...

Professor Karen Stockin from the School of Natural Sciences is investigating environmental contaminants in killer whales, common dolphins and other species and what that means for marine mammal health ...

See our report here. In South Africa, the decline of the mining industry entails huge environmental and human rights impacts due to the lack of appropriate accountability of both companies and public ...