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I was a junior in high school when the first World Environment Day (WED) was celebrated in 1972. Marked annually on June 5, it was established by the United Nations General Assembly and over the past ...

This Thursday marks World Environment Day, an annual awareness day born out of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It’s the largest global platform for environmental outreach, and this ...

Sir: For more than half a century, June 5th has marked World Environment Day (WED). This initiative by the United Nations, in collaboration with key stakeholders, aims at spotlighting critical ...

On the eve of World Environment Day, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the Global Plastics Hub, a tool that integrates data from multiple sources to support evidence-based ...

Community-led research from UCSB’s Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory spans three years, four continents and eight countries to reveal the scale of river plastic waste and offer solutions to stop it at ...

World Environment Day 2025 will be observed on June 5, with the Republic of Korea as the global host. Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this year’s campaign focuses on tackling ...

Nigerian Institute of Environmental Engineers (NIEE) has warned that Nigeria is drowning in plastic pollution and urged a science-driven national strategy to address the crisis. Speaking during a news ...

Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers, and ...