18/07/2019 Black. Muslim. Immigrant. All the identities that the United States’ President, Donald Trump, abhors. From his comment on African nations being ‘shitholes’ to his travel ban of...

  18/07/2019 Many more species are being driven to the brink of extinction, as humans continue to destroy ecosystems and habitats according to the IUCN’s red list, regarded among scientists as ...

  18/07/2019 Nelson Mandela Day, created by the United Nations in 2009, is celebrated around the world to honour his memory and what he stood for. People marked what would have been Mandela’s 1...

  18/07/2019 An unlikely partnership between environmentalists and farmers in France has come about in opposition to the EU’s controversial trade agreement with Canada, known as CETA. The Compr...

  17/07/2019 Over the last 50 years, Californian wildfires have increased in size eight times and are having a devastating effect on the region, according to a new study published in the journal ...

  17/07/2019 Blending more ethanol to the UK’s petrol mix would reduce carbon emissions and save the struggling British ethanol industry from collapse, according to a group of MPs. Doubling the...

  17/07/2019 The Trump administration has offered 378m acres of public US land and water for oil and gas drilling, which could create more climate polluting greenhouse gases a year than the entir...

  16/07/2019 A commission by the Royal Society of Arts Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has warned that UK farming must embrace a sustainable system within ten years if it is to help reverse a spi...

  16/07/2019 A new report by the United Nations (UN) has warned that after decades of progress, the number of starving and malnourished people in the world has been rising over the last three yea...

  16/07/2019 Environmental campaigners from Extinction Rebellion are carrying out five protests in London, Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, and Glasgow, in what they claim will be a five-day “summer up...

  15/07/2019 In Belong’s fourth article about the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we consider SDG 7, to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern ene...

  11/07/2019 Norway is increasingly withdrawing its pension or sovereign wealth fund from fossil fuels, but, or so Norwegian economists claim, for financial reasons and not to protect the climate...

  11/07/2019 New research has found that nearly 80% of the world’s cities will undergo dramatic and potentially disastrous changes as a result of global heating, with some cities on or near the...

  10/07/2019 Democratic lawmakers, including six presidential candidates, have unveiled a Congressional resolution declaring a climate change emergency to try and kick start sweeping reforms as t...

  10/07/2019 The UK government’s official climate advisors have said that their preparations to deal with rising temperatures are completely inadequate and compared them to the bumbling charact...

  10/07/2019 Native species are disappearing as the invasion of lionfish in the Eastern Mediterranean reaches “plague like proportions” due to global warming and the expansion of the Suez Can...

  09/07/2019 The Thwaites glacier, a large glacier in Western Antarctica, is unstable and it may be impossible to stop it melting and flowing into the ocean, causing a 50cm rise in sea levels a n...

  09/07/2019 Cyclists: Scourge of the Roads, which airs on Tuesday 9th July at 9:15 pm on Channel 5 creates a hateful, irresponsible and untrue narrative against cyclists that will make all road ...

  08/07/2019 A new study by Swiss scientists published in the journal Science last week said that planting up to a trillion trees would halt the worst effects of climate change, Reuters and AFP r...

  Migrating to the US by way of its southern border isn’t a new phenomenon. However, under Trump’s administration, there has been an increased crackdown on migrants leading to a humanitarian ...

  With a long list of live-action Disney films set to debut in the next few years, ,the latest addition to the reboot mania is The Little Mermaid. On Wednesday, sources revealed that African-Amer...

  New research has found the US to be the world’s top producer of waste, while also one of the worst industrialised nations in waste management. The report, which was compiled by Verisk Maplecr...

  Europe’s main human rights body voted last week to readmit Russia after Moscow lost its voting rights following the occupation of Crimea in 2014. The controversial decision was met with disma...

  An in-depth investigation has exposed that meat tycoons from Brazil’s burgeoning beef sector are eating into the world’s most important rainforest by ranching cattle illegally on embargoed ...

  This eco-hideaway of treehouse style villas is not only one of the Caribbean’s most luxurious resorts, but it’s also one of its most sustainable. Belong spoke to its creator, Gregor Nas...

  Tranquility Beach is a new luxury Hilton resort in Dominica that is a sustainable and climate resilient development. Belong spoke to its creator, Ian Edwards, who is one of the Caribbean island...

  Eight whaling boats set sail on Monday after Tokyo’s controversial withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), although the domestic whaling industry in Japan is now a shadow ...

  While Yemen has suffered from political and social unrest for a long time, the current civil war began in 2015. Things first escalated in 2011 after mass protests, inspired by the Arab Spring, ...

  One of Germany’s largest aid groups has warned that climate change will worsen hunger particularly in areas where there is conflict, while a Swedish based research institute has said that cli...

  Over 1,100 doctors have signed a letter urging governments to act on climate change. They compare the “woefully inadequate” government response to the environmental crisis to a sick patient...