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Climate action isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a human right. This week, in a major UN climate justice ruling, the world’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, said what frontline communities have known all along: governments have a legal duty…
When did climate change become so political? Once, it was simply a topic for concerned scientists and Greenpeace activists – something happening to our oceans and distant glaciers. But times, just like the climate, have changed. Climate policy has since…
What if; the start of all great breakthroughs and the question that propels humanity forward. From sliced bread to the man on the moon, we wouldn’t have got very far as a species without it. When…
The world’s tropical rainforest is burning. From the Congo Basin to the Amazon itself, satellite images and reports from the ground are showing an increased number and severity of forest fires. Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of…
The new Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report is the first global assessment ever to systematically examine and include local and indigenous knowledge. It’s about time. Three-quarters of the land-based environment and about 66% of the…
Last year, he did more to save our oceans than any government by getting us to cut single-use plastic in half. Now, he’s doing the same for rainforest. In ‘Climate Change: The Facts’,…
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.
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…
It is perhaps the most important natural fluctuation in the Earth’s climate. But it is also one of the least understood. The name El Niño is given to short-term warming of the surface waters of the tropical…
The biodiversity crisis is rapidly becoming as big an issue as climate change. And without biodiversity, there is no future for humanity. We are at risk of losing species before they have even been discovered.
Speaking at the start of the 2019 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Sir David Attenborough gave a stark warning, urging business leaders and politicians to make changes to tackle climate change before the damage is irreparable.
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