One World – One Environment – One Network
The World Bank Group is doubling its five-year investments in climate action to around 200 billion dollars. It aims to fights the causes of climate change and adapt to the consequences affecting the world’s...
Environmental NGOs across Europe have launched a new initiative urging the European Commission to phase out palm oil in biodiesel by 1 February 2019. Sixty-nine per cent of Europeans are in favour of this....
Orangutan populations are still declining rapidly, despite claims by the Indonesian Government that things are looking up for the red apes. These are the findings of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv),...
Human activity is having a devastating impact on the world’s wildlife, forests, oceans, rivers and climate, according to WWF’s latest Living Planet Report. The findings show that the way we eat, fuel and finance...
Meat and dairy products are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions from the EU diet, with the type of product we eat more important to solving climate change than eating locally. Production...
91 per cent of people fail to recognize that how we eat, produce and waste food is the single biggest threat to our planet, warns WWF in new research. The food system consumes natural...
The six trillion cigarettes produced every year gobble up finite resources, impacting the environment through climate change, water use and toxicity, a new study has warned. A single smoker depletes 1.4 million litres of...
Deforestation is threatening the population of Virunga mountain gorillas in Rwanda with extinction. New, energy-efficient stoves, which reduce firewood consumption, can help protect their habitat. Of the 1,000 mountain gorillas worldwide, some 600 live...
Palm oil is commonly used in our society but it has a major impact on the environment. According to a new study, the carbon cost when one hectare of forest is cleared to make...
Rainforest devastation is leading to the extinction of numerous tropical species. However, the regeneration of secondary forests urges species to make a comeback, promising new research has found. The loss of rainforests is fueling...
A number of American states have legalized marijuana in some form or another. But while marijuana farmers can celebrate, the environment is taking a hit as cannabis cultivation replaces forests and leads to habitat...
In the past decades, large areas of forest in Sumatra, Indonesia have been replaced by cash crops like oil palm and rubber plantations. New research, published in the European Geosciences Union journal Biogeosciences, shows...
Most waste wood today is either used for heating or chipped to produce particle boards. The aim of the EU-funded CaReWood (Cascading Recovered Wood) project is to reuse this secondary raw material several times...
One-third of the planet’s land is now severely degraded due to a doubling in the consumption of natural resources over the past 30 years, warns a new UN report. Some 15 billion trees and...
Conservation initiatives led by local and indigenous groups to protecting the Amazon rainforest can be more effective than government schemes, according to new research. The ‘Keep it local’ approach to protecting the Amazon rainforest...
Paying people to conserve their trees could be a highly cost-effective way to reduce deforestation and lower carbon emissions, a new study has revealed. The study compared people who own forest in 60 villages...
The southern Amazon rainforest triggers its own rainy season, a new study has revealed. The phenomenon is a result of water vapour from plant leaves – and it helps explain why deforestation is linked...
Tropical peat swamp forests, which once occupied large swaths of Southeast Asia and other areas, provided a significant “sink” that helped remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But such forests have been disappearing fast...
Experts and environmentalists are warning that koalas across much of Australia are on the brink of extinction. Increasing urbanisation, tree clearing and climate change are threatening the marsupials. Scientists are even talking about a...
The remains of South Africa’s indigenous forests hold a valuable and unique wildlife, fostered by long-term climatic stability and complex patterns of local climates. Researchers of the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig – Leibniz-Institute...
