Destruction of world’s pristine rainforests soared in 2022 despite Cop26 pledge
An area of primary rainforest the size of Switzerland was felled last year suggesting world leaders’ commitment to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030 is...
Category : Environment
Weather tracker: China issues heatstroke alert amid historic heatwave
Tianjin reports all-time record of 41.4C, while Texas and Mexico break numerous temperature records Parts of north-east China are in the grip of a historic...
Paris finance reforms could untie poor countries’ hands in climate crisis
Changes to the World Bank could unlock developing states access to loans and to the means of staving off disaster The Netherlands has almost the...
Massive strike pits African fishers against ‘superprofitable’ EU firms
About 2,000 crew members withdrew labour over pay and conditions, as well as citing serious breaches of overfishing rules by Spanish and French companies The...
Colombian plane crash: mother told children to leave her so they could survive
Details of woman’s final days emerge after four siblings rescued following almost six weeks in Amazon jungle The mother of the four young Colombian siblings...
Events in Brazil and UK to celebrate lives of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira
British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert were killed a year ago on Monday in remote Amazon region they tried to defend Friends and admirers of...
What’s the Caribbean without its beaches? But the people are losing access to them
Barring public access to beaches and other sites is not a model for development. Transparency and engagement are needed Walk along a Caribbean beach, which...
‘Journalism mustn’t be silenced’: colleagues to complete slain reporter’s book
How to Save the Amazon will be published so Dom Phillips’ work telling the stories of rainforest defenders does not die with him One year...
Weather tracker: Finland experiences coldest June on record
Despite 24-hour sun, Lapland dips to -7.7C. Elsewhere, the Atlantic hurricane season begins Thursday 1 June saw potentially the lowest June temperature on record in...
Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira will not be forgotten, vows Brazil’s Lula
President says last year’s killings were result of ‘encouragement of anarchy’ in Amazon under Bolsonaro Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira will not be forgotten, Brazil’s...
