Thousands of Indonesians prayed for rain in haze-hit towns on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo on Wednesday, as forest fires raged at the height of the dry season, the state Antara news agency reported.
Consumer goods giant Unilever released a list of its global tea suppliers on Thursday, bolstering a drive to stamp out worker exploitation and modern-day slavery on plantations.
Armed Polish border guards towed the Greenpeace ship “Rainbow Warrior” out of the port of Gdansk on the night of Tuesday. The ship was to protest against the Polish coal industry.
Norwegian dog owners are seriously concerned about their pets after the outbreak of a mystery illness. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority has received reports of sick dogs from all over the country.
A temporary art intervention by Klaus Littmann that will transform Wörthersee football stadium in Klagenfurt into Austria’s largest public art installation from 9 September – 27 October 2019.
Scientists have developed a way to describe the planet Earth as an exoplanet, thus creating a two-dimensional alien map.
A Brazilian Serie C soccer match was temporarily halted because of smoke from wildfires in the Amazon rainforest.
Open fridges in supermarkets should be banned because they waste too much energy and release “super-greenhouse gases” into the atmosphere, campaigners have said.
Brazilian warplanes are dumping water on the burning forest in the Amazon state of Rondonia, responding to a global outcry over the destruction of the world’s largest tropical rain forest.
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) is reporting wildfires continued to rage throughout July, making them by far the longest-lived Arctic wildfires ever recorded.