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5 Ways To Talk About The Devastating IPCC Climate Report

By Josh Ettinger, University of Oxford The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report is a sobering read, which some describe as a “final warning”...

UK Suffering More Intense Rain Because of Climate Change

by Elizabeth Kendon, Professor of Climate Science, University of Bristol In July 2021, Kew in London experienced a month’s rain in just three hours. Across...

Insects are Disappearing – and That’s Bad News For Us All

Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there are fewer insects than there used to be. Both...

Livestock Grazing Preventing Return of UK and Ireland Rainforests

A few years back, the president of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales wrote a defence of the meat industry after a...

More Than a Third of Ocean Microplastics Come From Washing Our Clothes

Around 35% of the microplastics contaminating the world’s oceans come from washing our clothes. When washed, synthetic clothing sheds tiny plastic fragments (typically shorter...

Battle to Save Earth’s Wetlands as One-Fifth Lost

Like so many of the planet’s natural habitats, wetlands have been systematically destroyed over the past 300 years. Bogs, fens, marshes and swamps have...

How To Tell If a Business is Really Net Zero

The science is clear: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must peak before 2025 to prevent planetary warming exceeding 1.5℃. The solution is simple: stop doing...

New Ecuador Reserve Protects 3 Million Acres of Rainforest

The Tarímiat Pujutaí Nuṉka Reserve covers 1,237,395 hectares (3,057,671 acres) of Andean and Amazonian forests in the Morona Santiago province of eastern Ecuador. The area...

How a Green Economy Can Help Debt-Ridden Countries

Many countries are staring into a debt crisis as the world faces multiple challenges with supply-chain disruptions, the Russia-Ukraine war and high inflation. The United...

38% of the Remaining Amazon Forest has been Degraded

According to a new study signed by 35 scientists from all over the world, more than 1 million square miles of what remains of...

How to Responsibly Source Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic

As the use of recycled materials is normalised, we must examine its source and ask who is collecting it, in what conditions is it...

In The Next Hour, All This Destruction Will Happen

In the next hour, 103,000 trees will be cut down. 1,140 of these trees will be just for toilet paper. Only 42,000 new trees will be planted.

Why the Climate Crisis is the World’s Biggest Mental Health Problem

Climate change is negatively affecting mental health. So search for happiness among the gloom — signs that the situation could improve, and positive action we can all take.

These Lives Are Being Devastated By Climate Change Right Now

Forget 2050 climate targets — the world, its people and its wildlife are suffering RIGHT NOW because of rising sea levels and global temperatures.

Hannah Launches Mission for the Planet and Her Son

A young single mum has launched a sustainable business that puts money in the pockets of destitute people in trouble-torn Sri Lanka.

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