World Environment Day is celebrated annually on 5 June and encourages awareness and action for the protection of the environment. This year’s theme focuses on solutions to plastic pollution under the campaign #BeatPlasticPollution. Plastic pollution refers to the...
In December last year, a major Australian petrol company was fined $75,000 for unlawfully disposing of contaminated soil and causing environmental harm. The company faced two charges of unlawfully disposing of contaminated soil and one charge of unlawfully causing...
On 19 August 2003, a bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, killed 22 humanitarian aid workers, including the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Five years later, the General Assembly adopted a resolution...
Water is one of life’s essential needs. However, the water crisis is becoming more common around the world as billions of people suffer from a lack of access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene. With crisis comes conflict. The Pacific Institute has identified...
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the worlds natural wonders. It was the first coral reef ecosystem in the world to be inscribed into the World Heritage list in 1981 and is now one of 49 marine World Heritage Areas. The Great Barrier Reef world heritage area...
