Search results for ‘forests’
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COP26: Will countries be able to deliver on deforestation pledge?
Some 110 nations have signed up to the pledge to protect and expand the world’s forests, with plenty of bold declarations about the importance of saving the “lungs of the earth” – and there’s some big money behind it too.
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Indigenous communities fighting deforestation in Ecuadorian Amazon
In the Ecuadorian Amazon, indigenous communities are fighting back, like the Waorani tribe defending 500,000 acres of forest from oil extraction and threats of sale by the government.
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President Bolsonaro and his supporters defy concerns over deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon
Pulling in greenhouse gases from the atmosphere will be crucial in the fight against climate change.
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2085: The rainforest lost forever #OurClimateFutures
This video is part of Our Climate Futures – a project which takes real science to forecast what impacts and changes humanity may face as the climate crisis unfolds. This is not a news story. At least not yet.
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Exclusive: Palm oil bosses human rights abuses claims
Palm oil executives have been caught on camera apparently admitting to human rights abuses in Papua New Guinea (PNG), home to the world’s third largest rainforest, linking global brands to deforestation and child labour.
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Climate Crisis: Wildfires forcing thousands to flee around globe
There’s ample evidence of the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. Wildfires, often started by human hand, but fuelled by baking heat, are tearing through forests around the globe.
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Fears Biomass green revolution could be fuelling habitat loss
For supporters of Biomass, it is a vital tool in helping the UK switch away from fossil fuels. Biomass involves burning energy crops or waste timber in power stations that used to burn coal.
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On the ground in St Vincent as volcano ‘destroying everything in its path’
The Caribbean island of St Vincent has been rocked by a huge explosion, as the La Soufrière volcano fired a huge plume of ash and hot gas into the skies.
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Biggest tree planting operation of the winter takes place in Yorkshire
Yorkshire is quite literally going back to its roots – with the biggest tree planting operation ever undertaken in England going on right now. A third of Broughton Hall estate near Skipton will be returned to nature.
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Is there a more climate-friendly way to assess the state of our economies?
When we want to know how well economies are doing, there’s one measure that’s been used around the world for more than three quarters of a century – GDP. But in the face of looming climate catastrophe, is there a better way to assess the state of our economies? The United Nations is voting on…
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HS2: Construction starts on rail project as protests continue over environmental cost
Construction on the HS2 high-speed rail project officially started today, as the company said it would create 22,000 jobs.
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Investigation: Thousands of trees illegally felled to build IKEA’s flat pack empire
IKEA’s factories consume more than 20 million cubic meters of wood a year.
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From Chainsaw to Chair – IKEA’s illegally sourced furniture
Some of IKEA’s most recognisable products, the Ingolf, the Henriksdal and the folding Terje chair have been made from illegally felled beech trees from one of Europe’s last great forests, a Channel 4 News investigation has found.
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‘We have disrespected animals and disrespected the environment’ – Dame Jane Goodall on coronavirus
In the midst of yet another global pandemic some say has been caused by human interference with wild animals, Jane Goodall says there is only one species that has caused this – us.
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The illegal industrial fishing damaging Scotland’s ‘Great Barrier Reef’
The crystal-clear waters off Scotland’s west coast are some of the richest marine habitats around any of our 5,000-plus British Isles. Small wonder the places where the ancient quahogs live and the vital maerl forests thrive, are under strict protection. Or are they? Our chief Correspondent Alex Thomson reports from Wester Ross, a place they…