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We see incredible climate action take place in rainforest around the world each and every day. Find stories and news to inspire your own climate action now.

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2020: The year ahead with Cool Earth

2020 and the coming decade will be pivotal in the fight against climate breakdown.  In ten years from now, we must be reflecting on how far we have progressed, together. We’re not talking hover cars and coffee machines…

Behind the lens with Cool Earth’s in-house photographer

Avoiding fish-eating snakes. Taping up a leaking kayak. Interviewing in a monsoon. There are rarely two days the same when it comes to working in Cool Earth’s rainforest partnerships. And when it comes to documenting and photographing people and places…

Remembering Sir Michael Uren

Sir Michael Uren OBE, engineer, industrialist and one of Britain’s leading philanthropists, has died at the age of 95. It is a reflection of Britain’s hidden and sparse culture of philanthropy that Sir Michael Uren is not a household name.

Small but vital: Rainforest insect populations

Humanity has wiped out 60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970. But this terrifying statistic ignores the invertebrates. This army of insects makes up over two-thirds of terrestrial species and supports every living thing. Insects are not just…

Cool Earth’s Research Partners

Cool Earth is an organisation that is continually evaluating and learning. Part of this process is partnering with experts to improve and refine the ways we work. For our current researchers, visit our Impact page.  Deforestation Forecasting Dr Seth…

World Environment Day: Trees are living air-purifiers.

Nine out of ten people worldwide breathe polluted air. This causes millions of illnesses and deaths and needs action to be reduced. Trees act as air-cleaning machines, improving air quality in many ways.

Cooking, carbon and the Congo Basin

What comes to mind when you think about deforestation? Is it raging wildfires and vast log rafts floating down the Amazon? Orangutans battling bulldozers in Indonesia? The world’s second biggest rainforest is increasingly threatened by something much…