Experts at the&nbsp;Natural History Museum in the UK have discovered over&nbsp;400 new species this past year. From amongst 171 beetles found around the world, one of them has been named in honour of Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg. Long-extinct dinosaur species and snakes are a part of the new discoveries made in 2019.&nbsp;

Experts at the Natural History Museum in the UK have discovered over 400 new species this past year. From amongst 171 beetles found around the world, one of them has been named in honour of Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg. Long-extinct dinosaur species and snakes are a part of the new discoveries made in 2019.

As many as&nbsp;1.5 billion plastic toothpaste tubes are discarded annually in the world. The tube's design hasn't&nbsp;changed in the last 50 years but some brands want you to shift towards less wasteful alternatives. One such company is US-based Bite Toothpaste Bits that makes all natural, zero -aste toothpaste tablets that you can pop one-at-a-time. The company uses glass jars to package these poppers and provides refills in cardboard boxes for a completely eco-conscious experience.&nbsp;

A British man, Lewis Pugh has become the first person in the world to swim under the Antarctic ice sheet. He wore only his swimming trunks, cap and goggles! The&nbsp;50-year-old, who is also a climate change activist, spent around 8 minutes in the freezing water to demonstrate the 'very rapid changes' happening as a result of climate change. Later this week, Pugh will be undertaking a 20-minute swim.

Bristol University researchers find a shocking rise in the level of a particular greenhouse gas called&nbsp;hydrofluorocarbon HFC-23. In&nbsp;2017, India and China, which are the two major sources,&nbsp; had reported that they completely eliminated emissions of the gas. However, research shows that concentrations of the gas, which is mostly used in fridges, inhalers and air conditioners, has increased at an alarming rate.This rise could have repercussion's&nbsp;for the Montreal Protocol, which was launched to&nbsp; to protect the stratospheric ozone layer.

The amount of materials consumed by humans has reached&nbsp;100bn tonnes a year and it is disproportionate&nbsp;to the amount of waste getting recycled. The report by a thinktank&nbsp;Circle Economy was released at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It states that "&nbsp;treating the world&rsquo;s resources as limitless is leading towards global disaster". The last 2 years have seen the consumption of resources jump by over 8%. The report also states that there are some nations working towards a circular economy. Cement, clay, gravel and sand make up more than half of the total materials consumed.&nbsp;

American multinational corporation and one of the world's biggest producers of plastic waste, Coca-Cola has refused to give up single-use plastic. The&nbsp;firm's head of sustainability&nbsp;Bea Perez told BBC&nbsp;at the World Economic Forum in Davos, that customers still want plastic bottles because they are light weight and they reseal easily. Scrapping plastic bottles would "would alienate customers and hit sales". The statement has sparked fury among&nbsp;environmental campaigners, who accused the company of not taking responsibility for their plastic waste.&nbsp;

The world&rsquo;s largest coffee chain, Starbucks has laid out targets for 2030 including halving landfill waste from stores, and carbon emissions from its direct operations and supply chain.&nbsp;It&nbsp;also said that it aims to add more plant-based items on the menu and eventually shift to reusable packaging&nbsp;to become more environmentally friendly.&nbsp;The Seattle-based company&rsquo;s abundant use of containers, lids and straws has been criticized by consumers as well as activist groups. It uses about 6 billion cups a year at more than 30,000 outlets, and has failed to meet some of its environmental&nbsp;goals in the past.

As part of the 'green initiative' at Kozhikode's Malabar Christian College in Kerala, students and staff members came together to make more than 200 paper pens. These 'eco-friendly' pens are entirely handmade and it's the first college in Kerala to do so. Their aim is to transform&nbsp;into a plastic-free campus.

The Malaysian Environment Minister warned on Monday that those who wish to make the Southeast Asian nation the 'rubbish dump of the world' can dream on. Malaysia has sent back almost 150 containers of plastic waste to 13 countries since the third quarter of 2019. Most of the containers came from&nbsp;France, the United Kingdom and the United States. After China banned the import of plastic waste in 2018, shipments of the rubbish have been rerouted to Malaysia. Yeo Bee Yin also stated that another 110 containers will be sent back by mid 2020.&nbsp;

Researchers from the&nbsp;&nbsp;University of Washington have found that a giant &ldquo;blob&rdquo; of hot ocean in the Pacific killed almost one million seabirds between 2015 and 2016. Called&nbsp;common murres, the birds most probably died as a result of starvation.The heat blob was formed due to severe marine heatwave. Food grew scarce amid intense competition from other marine animals, causing a fight for survival. Other reasons for the deaths include a vast bloom of harmful algae along&nbsp;North America&rsquo;s Pacific coast. The seabird has not replenished ever since.&nbsp;

One of the biggest consumers of plastic in the world, China now aims to ban single-use in most of its cities by the end of 2020. Single-use straws, plastic utensils and packaging will be phased out. The policy was issued by the&nbsp;&nbsp;Ministry of Ecology and Environment along with the&nbsp;national development and reform commission. China's largest rubbish dump has reached its full capacity 25 years ahead of its schedule.

Microsoft has announced its commitment to become carbon negative by 2030, adding that the company will remove all the carbon it has emitted either directly or via electricity consumption since it was founded in 1975 by 2050. The tech giant will create a $1 billion climate innovation fund to accelerate the development of carbon reduction and removal technologies. As a part of this goal, Microsoft will reduce its emissions by more than half by 2030 , extending across its entire business and supply chain.

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg on Friday addressed hundreds of people at a climate march in Switzerland's Lausanne, days before the start of the World Economic Forum at Davos. The 17-year-old eco warrior in a strong message told world leaders that, so far in this decade there has been no sign that real climate action is coming. Greta is due to address the Davos summit next week to call on governments and financial institutions to stop investing in fossil fuels.

In a welcoming initiative, a special firefighting team was able to save a group of pre-historic pine trees from the deadly wildfires in Australia. The efforts to save the Wollemi Pines forest included establishing irrigation systems and aircrafts dropping fire retardants. The environment Minister of New South Wales described it as a 'military-style' operation and claimed that the trees have outlived dinosaurs!

The rise in global temperatures could lead to extreme weather conditions in 2020, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The Australian bushfires&nbsp;are the kind of disasters the world should be ready to witness if global warming continues at the present rate, the experts said. Record levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could fuel extreme weather conditions throughout 2020. Experts warn for a need for urgent action to reverse current trends.&nbsp;

The smoke from Australia&rsquo;s devastating bushfires will make a round-the-world trip, Space agency Nasa has warned. The bushfire smoke has impacted air quality as far away as South America. Nasa said that by January 8, the smoke had made its way halfway around the world and will make at least one full circuit. New Zealand experienced severe air quality issues, while hazy skies and colorful sunsets and sunrises were seen in parts of Chile and Argentina. Australian bushfires have burned across an area twice the size of Switzerland causing at least 28 deaths and destroying thousands of homes

361 elephants have died in Sri&nbsp;Lanka over the last year, making it the highest death toll ever recorded&nbsp;since Sri Lanka became independent in 1948. According to a BBC report, most of the elephants died due to human activity. Electric fences, poison and explosives were used to kill the endangered animals. The expansion of villages and farms in the country has also lead to dwindling supply of water and food for the elephants.&nbsp;

A new draft by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity has set a 2030 deadline for the conservation and restoration of ecosystems and wildlife that perform crucial services for humans. Almost a third of the world&rsquo;s oceans and land should be protected by the end of the decade to stop the sixth mass extinction event in Earth&rsquo;s history, according to the Paris-style UN agreement on nature. The proposal is expected to be adopted by governments in October at a crucial UN summit in the Chinese city of Kunming. It comes after countries largely failed to meet their targets for the previous decade.&nbsp;

The air quality in Melbourne deteriorated to the "worst in the world" on Tuesday as smoke from the massive bushfires engulfed Australia's second-biggest city. Authorities have issued health warnings advising people to stay indoors and take precautionary measures. The raging Australian bushfires, one of the worst in its history, has killed at least 26 people, burned over 10 million hectares of land, destroyed over 2,000 homes and pushed many species towards extinction. According to reports, 16 fires are still burning and 1.4 million hectares have been destroyed across Victoria alone.&nbsp;Meanwhile, the Bureau of Meteorology has forecast rains through the week, bringing some relief to the bushfire affected communities and the firefighters.

Back in the 1990s, scientists observed that Greenland's Ice Sheet loses 25 billion tons of ice per year. Now, a team of 89 scientists from 50 institutions have assessed the current rate of ice loss by combining 26 satellite datasets from 1992 through 2018 to track global warming's effect on Greenland.&nbsp;The results of this study, published in journal Nature, indicate that&nbsp;Greenland&rsquo;s current rate of ice loss has accelerated from 25 billion to 234 billion tons per year, a whopping nine times increase in faster melt rate.&nbsp;Warmer air at the surface of the ice sheet is responsible for about half of the ice that Greenland is losing each year, says the study.

The sails of the iconic Sydney Opera House were illuminated over the weekend to show support for fire fighters and wildfires-affected communities.&nbsp;The display included messages and photographs of fire fighters who were fighting wildfires over the past few months.

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