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Voices from the rainforest
News and Stories
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.
Stories shape the future.
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…
El Niño: the little boy that’s getting more dangerous
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…
IPBES Report | Biodiversity loss is a social and ecological emergency
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.
“The Garden Of Eden Is No More”
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.
Rainforest Champions | What Cool Earth can achieve in 2019 thanks to you
In December 2018, Cool Earth’s supporters raised more than any year previously. And thanks to two generous donors, every penny donated was matched. That means Cool Earth’s partners can do twice as much to protect the world’s remaining rainforest. Here’s…
Micro Pin with a Big Message by Graham Short
When he’s not engraving the entire Lord’s Prayer on the head of a pin, or making newspaper headlines for his images of Jane Austen and Harry Kane on £5 notes, Graham Short is somewhat of a rainforest enthusiast. Having…
Fuel-efficient stoves and the SDGs
Since 2015 Cool Earth has worked alongside Fauna & Flora International in the Democratic Republic of Congo to reduce firewood use by installing fuel-efficient stoves. This seemingly small and simple solution is making a measurable difference to the health…
Cool Earth 2018 | What on Earth happened this year?
In between putting on yet another jumper and accidentally writing the year wrong again, the Cool Earth team has been reminiscing on 2018; our most effective year yet. January The Wabumari Association awards Silo Silo primary school K3200 (the…
More storms weather in Papua New Guinea
And while aftershocks continue to rock the highlands, storms rock the lowlands. Gadaisu village was on the edge of a tropical storm over the weekend and has the scars to prove it. Home’s have suffered the brunt of…