The department has issued a public health warning after reports that transformer oil is being used for medicinal purposes in some communities

The country risks ‘pariah status’ for approach to global plastic waste crisis

Critics say the environment department’s argument that the treaty would be a duplication of existing agreements is flawed

Half the world’s orcas are doomed, because a coal byproduct has been leaking into the oceans for more than a century

An unknown amount of trapped persistent organics pollutants trapped in ice, poses a threat to marine life and humans as temperatures increase.