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News from across the Internet

(29th Jan 2021) England’s ‘national rainforests’ to be protected by new rules
(28th Jan 2021) Ambitious return to carbon markets to conserve Africa’s forests
(28th Jan 2021) The Amazon lost an area of primary forest larger than Israel in 2020, new analysis finds
(27th Jan 2021) Global ice sheets melting at ‘worst-case’ rates: UK scientists
(27th Jan 2021) France contributes to protection of Amazon stronghold, Yasuní National Park
(26th Jan 2021) Scientists address myths over large-scale tree planting
(25th Jan 2021) US returns to global climate arena with call to act on 'emergency'
(25th Jan 2021) Ecuadorian Amazon: Three European banks stop funding trade of oil
(25th Jan 2021) Amazon is on the brink of turning into a carbon source, study warns
(21st Jan 2021) Papua tribe moves to block clearing of its ancestral forest for palm oil
(20th Jan 2021) Biden returns US to Paris climate accord hours after becoming president
(19th Jan 2021) Biden to 'hit ground running' as he rejoins Paris climate accords
(18th Jan 2021) New technique converts microplastics into CO2 and H2O
(18th Jan 2021) UK government ‘considering import ban on soya linked to illegal deforestation’
(16th Jan 2021) Malaysia takes WTO legal action against EU over palm biofuel curbs
(14th Jan 2021) Forests may flip from CO2 'sink' to 'source' by 2050
(13th Jan 2021) Tropical rainforests may begin pumping out carbon dioxide by 2050
(13th Jan 2021) Australia the only developed nation on world list of deforestation hotspots
(8th Jan 2021) Climate crisis: 2020 was joint hottest year ever recorded
(7th Jan 2021) Amazon Rainforest Will Collapse by 2064, New Study Predicts
(8th Jan 2021) Atmospheric carbon dioxide to pass iconic threshold
(7th Jan 2021) Global heating could stabilize if net zero emissions achieved, scientists say
(4th Jan 2021) How satellites are stopping deforestation in Africa
(4th Jan 2021) An unusually strong warm wave heads for the Siberian Arctic Ocean, raising surface temperatures more than 20 degrees above normal
(23rd Dec 2020) 'Zombie' greenhouse gas lurks in permafrost beneath the Arctic Ocean
(29th Dec 2020) Illegal deforestation rises in South America’s Indigenous territories, parks
(26th Dec 2020) 'It's as if we've learned nothing': alarm over Amazon road project
(23rd Dec 2020) What about all these volcanoes currently erupting around the world? Is the Big One coming?
(22nd Dec 2020) Top 10 environmental news stories of 2020
(21st Dec 2020) Indonesia’s biofuel bid threatens more deforestation for oil palm plantations
(21st Dec 2020) Time for some home truths about deforestation
(17th Dec 2020) Palm oil: Could a lab-made alternative save our rainforests?
(15th Dec 2020) Brazil scientists map forest regrowth keeping Amazon from collapse: Study
(15th Dec 2020) A palm oil alternative could help save rainforests
(9th Dec 2020) No such thing as 'sustainable' palm oil, says Indonesian youth activist
(11th Dec 2020) Climate change: EU leaders set 55% target for CO2 emissions cut
(10th Dec 2020) Climate change: Have countries kept their promises?
(8th Dec 2020) Deforestation razed eight percent of Amazon in 18 years: Study
(5th Dec 2020) UK’s new tree planting funds just a ‘leaf in a forest’, campaigners say
(4th Dec 2020) Norway bumps rate to protect rainforests amid anticipated U.S. climate return
(4th Dec 2020) As Amazon deforestation hits 12 year high, France rejects Brazilian soy
(4th Dec 2020) Climate change: UK aim of 68% emissions cut a 'colossal challenge'
(1st Dec 2020) UK imported 1m tonnes of soya with deforestation risk in 2019
(30th Nov 2020) ‘Certified’ palm oil linked to worse social, ecological outcomes for Indonesian villagers
(30th Nov 2020) Amazon deforestation surges to 12-year high under Bolsonaro
(25th Nov 2020) Revealed: UK supermarket and fast food chicken linked to deforestation in Brazil
(25th Nov 2020) Norway hikes cash for rainforests, seeking corporate help to slow losses
(20th Nov 2020) Paraguay whistleblowers allege illegal deforestation cover up
(20th Nov 2020) Brazil accused of holding up UN biodiversity talks
(4th Dec 2020) Denmark set to end all new oil and gas exploration
(4th Dec 2020) Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report
(2nd Dec 2020) Humanity is waging war on nature, says UN secretary general
(2nd Dec 2020) New Zealand declares a climate change emergency
(2nd Dec 2020) Climate change: 2020 set to be one of the three warmest years on record
(1st Dec 2020) Climate change: Temperature analysis shows UN goals 'within reach'
(23rd Nov 2020) Climate crisis: CO2 hits new record despite Covid-19 lockdowns
(19th Nov 2020) Climate crisis: Arctic sea ice freezing at latest date on record
(13th Nov 2020) Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rises for first time in 4 months
(12th Nov 2020) Palm oil giant Korindo accused again of illegally burning Papuan rainforest
(11th Nov 2020) New UK law will stop firms using products linked to illegal deforestation
(11th Nov 2020) Climate change: Protecting the rainforest through your shopping basket
(28th Oct 2020) Climate change: China's forest carbon uptake 'underestimated'
(8th Nov 2020) Why Arctic sea ice has stalled, and what it means for the rest of the world
(27th Oct 2020) Arctic methane deposits 'starting to release', scientists say
(24th Oct 2020) Palm oil peril: Is your peanut butter putting primates at risk?
(15th Oct 2020) Next pandemic? Amazon deforestation may spark new diseases
(9th Oct 2020) Mars achieves 'deforestation-free' palm oil, what about the rest?
(6th Oct 2020) Mars claims its palm oil is deforestation-free after ditching hundreds of suppliers
(6th Oct 2020) No. 1 fossil fuel funder JPMorgan says it will align with Paris Accord
(5th Oct 2020) 40 Percent of the Amazon Is on the Brink of Transitioning to Savanna
(5th Oct 2020) Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah – study
(5th Mar 2020) McDonald's among food firms urging tougher deforestation rules
(4th Oct 2020) Eco-Friendly Palm Oil is a Lie
(1st Oct 2020) Brazil's Amazon rainforest suffers worst fires in a decade
(1st Oct 2020) Two years on, ban on new palm oil plantations brings little change
(30th Sep 2020) Brazilian court blocks government's decision to revoke key mangrove protections
(30th Sep 2020) Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects Biden's offer of $20 billion to protect the Amazon
(30th Sep 2020) M&S cuts soya from production of milk to curb deforestation
(30th Sep 2020) U.S. Blocks Palm Oil Imports From One of the Top Producers
(29th Sep 2020) Brazil moves toward transfer of deforestation and fire monitoring to military
(29th Sep 2020) Planetary ‘safety net’ could halt wildlife loss and slow climate breakdown
(28th Sep 2020) World leaders pledge to halt Earth’s destruction ahead of UN summit
(27th Sep 2020) Egregious Labor Abuses in Palm Oil Industry Linked to World’s Biggest Brands Like Colgate, Unilever, L’Oreal, Pepsi and More
(23rd Sep 2020) Black Mountains: Tree planting project cuts giant sign into bracken
(23rd Sep 2020) New satellite images to allow anyone, anywhere, to monitor tropical deforestation
(23rd Sep 2020) Brazil meat giant JBS pledges to axe suppliers linked to deforestation
(22nd Sep 2020) Climate change: China aims for 'carbon neutrality by 2060'
(21st Sep 2020) Climate Week: World split on urgency of tackling rising temperatures, poll suggests
(21st Sep 2020) World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam
(20th Sep 2020) Indonesia’s Palm Oil Exports Rise on Higher Shipments to China
(18th Sep 2020) Eight European Countries Are Calling For Brazil To Act on Amazon Deforestation
(15th Sep 2020) Nestlé identified over 1,000 cases of deforestation per day in palm oil areas
(15th Sep 2020) Amazon rainforest: Farmers are losing everything to deforestation fires as experts warn it is reaching tipping point
(15th Sep 2020) Mapping tree loss in rain forests over time
(10th Sep 2020) In the Amazon, forest degradation is outpacing full deforestation
(8th Sep 2020) Experts question integrity of Indonesia’s claim of avoided deforestation
(2nd Sep 2020) Amazon tragedy repeats itself as Brazil rainforest goes up in smoke
(1st Sep 2020) Greenpeace photos illuminate illegal Amazon fires
(30th Aug 2020) How Has Thirty Years Of Logging Saved The Rainforest in Guatemala?
(28th Aug 2020) Made With Palm Oil? There's A Fine For That Says New UK Bill
(28th Aug 2020) Coconut and palm oil industries at loggerheads over environmental impact
(28th Aug 2020) Amazon fires: Are they worse this year than before?
(27th Aug 2020) Can yeast oil save rainforests from palm oil plantation pressure?
(25th Aug 2020) Large UK businesses to be 'banned from using products grown on deforested land'
(20th Aug 2020) UN fund pays Indonesia for forest protection as deforestation rises
(19th Aug 2020) The $60-Billion Industry Behind Brazil’s Exploitation of the Amazon Rainforest
(14th Sep 2020) Northern hemisphere breaks record for hottest ever summer
(14th Sep 2020) Five cyclones churn in Atlantic Ocean for only second time in history
(14th Sep 2020) Climate change: Warmth shatters section of Greenland ice shelf
(9th Sep 2020) Earth may temporarily pass dangerous 1.5 C warming limit by 2024, major new report says
(8th Sep 2020) Arctic warming: are record temperatures and fires arriving earlier than scientists predicted?
(23rd Aug 2020) Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice in less than 30 years
(22nd Aug 2020) 'Melting faster and faster': Greenland lost 1 million tonnes of ice for each minute of 2019
(21st Aug 2020) Human consumption of the Earth’s resources declined in 2020
(20th Aug 2020) Climate change: 'Unprecedented' ice loss as Greenland breaks record
(19th Aug 2020) Bolsonaro says reports of Amazon fires are a 'lie.' Evidence says otherwise
(16th Aug 2020) Greenland's ice has melted beyond return, study suggests
(16th Aug 2020) How climate change could expose new epidemics
(14th Aug 2020) UK: Paris climate treaty has no domestic effect
(13th Aug 2020) Brazil's Bolsonaro calls Amazon fires a 'lie' despite surge in blazes
(13th Aug 2020) August’s fires in the Amazon are at their highest levels in a decade
(12th Aug 2020) In Pictures: Fires in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest
(12th Aug 2020) Last decade was Earth's hottest on record as climate crisis accelerates
(8th Aug 2020) Battle of the Heavyweights
(7th Aug 2020) Probe begins into alleged deforestation by Olam, ‘world’s largest farmer’
(7th Aug 2020) Climate change: UK peat emissions could cancel forest benefits
(5th Aug 2020) ‘Meaningless certification’: Study makes the case against ‘sustainable’ palm oil
(5th Aug 2020) Tesco urged to ditch meat company over alleged links to Amazon deforestation
(2nd Aug 2020) Amazon region: Brazil records big increase in fires
(27th Jul 2020) Revealed: new evidence links Brazil meat giant JBS to Amazon deforestation
(20th Jul 2020) Malaysia to file WTO case against EU over palm oil curbs
(10th Jul 2020) Climate crisis: UK consumption ‘fuelling Amazon fires’
(18th Jul 2020) Amazon soya and beef exports 'linked to deforestation'
(14th Jul 2020) Methane rises to highest level on record
(13th Jul 2020) Outcry from environmentalists as Brazil fires official monitoring deforestation
(10th Jul 2020) Brazil's Amazon Deforestation Increased By 25 Per Cent In 2020
(9th Jul 2020) Brazil bows to investor pressure, bans setting fires in Amazon
(9th Jul 2020) Global temperatures likely to hit at least 1C warming for next five years
(2nd Jul 2020) Climate crisis: Rising temperatures pose greater threat to tropical plants by 2070, research suggests
(30th Jun 2020) Gold mining leaves deforested Amazon land barren for years, find scientists
(29th Jun 2020) Amazon deforestation may hurt Brazil's corn yields, study warns
(22nd Jun 2020) World Rainforest Day: Celebrating the Amazon, the planet’s largest rainforest
(19th Jun 2020) Views sought on future of woods as UK Government seeks to boost tree planting
(14th Jun 2020) In the Brazilian Amazon, China is buyer, trader, lender, builder – to potentially devastating effect
(13th Jun 2020) Fast-growing mini-forests spring up in Europe to aid climate
(23rd Jun 2020) China and EU appetite for soy drives Brazilian deforestation, climate change: Study
(22nd Jun 2020) Land purchases by private companies accelerate tropical deforestation, data shows
(19th Jun 2020) Exclusive: European investors threaten Brazil divestment over deforestation
(15th Jun 2020) Ben & Jerry’s owner Unilever to use blockchain to tackle deforestation, invests $1 billion in climate change
(12th Jun 2020) 14 straight months of rising Amazon deforestation in Brazil
(12th Jun 2020) Anti-poverty scheme linked to lower deforestation rates in Indonesia
(11th Jun 2020) The African country that inspired more and more countries to plant billions of trees
(10th Jun 2020) How much rainforest is being destroyed?
(10th Jun 2020) Brazil revises deforestation data: Amazon rainforest loss topped 10,000 sq km in 2019
(5th Jun 2020) UK launches support package to protect tropical rainforests in Colombia
(5th Jun 2020) Meat giants selling to UK linked to Brazil farms in deforested Amazon reserve
(4th Jun 2020) Revealed: UK banks and investors' $2bn backing of meat firms linked to Amazon deforestation
(2nd Jun 2020) Football pitch-sized area of tropical rainforest lost every six seconds
(29th May 2020) Indonesia to receive $56m payment from Norway for reducing deforestation
(28th May 2020) Studies add to alarm over deforestation in Brazil under Bolsonaro
(23rd May 2020) Climate crisis: Tropical rainforest ‘tipping point’ identified as scientists call for immediate action to tackle global warming
(21st May 2020) Amazon under threat: Fires, loggers and now virus
(21st May 2020) Tropical forests can still store ‘high levels’ of carbon under 2C of warming
(18th May 2020) Who’s financing deforestation in Papua New Guinea? A new report follows the money
(8th May 2020) Brazil's Amazon: Surge in deforestation as military prepares to deploy
(5th May 2020) Brazil sacks officials who curbed deforestation on Amazon indigenous lands
(5th May 2020) Forest fire season is coming. How can we stop the Amazon burning?
(28th Apr 2020) Britain breaks record for coal-free power generation
(27th Apr 2020) The world is on lockdown. So where are all the carbon emissions coming from?
(23rd Apr 2020) Satellite data show Amazon rainforest likely drier, more fire-prone this year
(22nd Apr 2020) Climate change: 2019 was Europe's warmest year on record
(21st Apr 2020) Amazon invests $10 million to help conserve forests as part of climate change plan
(18th Apr 2020) Warmest Oceans on Record Adds to Hurricanes, Wildfires Risks
(15th Apr 2020) Scientists confirm dramatic melting of Greenland ice sheet
(11th Apr 2020) Despite COVID, Amazon deforestation races higher
(8th Apr 2020) Scientists create mutant enzyme that recycles plastic bottles in hours
(25th Mar 2020) New Player Begins Clearing Rainforest for World's Largest Palm Oil Plantation
(24th Mar 2020) As Fires Rage in the Amazon, Brazil Massacres Activists Trying to Save the Rain Forest
(19th Mar 2020) Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months
(17th Mar 2020) Amazon Rainforest Reaches Point of No Return
(16th Mar 2020) Restoring soils could remove up to ‘5.5bn tonnes’ of greenhouse gases every year
(10th Mar 2020) Ecosystems the size of Amazon 'can collapse within decades'
(5th Mar 2020) The Amazon Is Almost Fully Saturated, And Could Flip to Emitting Carbon in 15 Years
(4th Mar 2020) Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon, study finds
(4th Mar 2020) Major science journal retracts study blaming climate change on the sun
(8th Feb 2020) More than 50,000 urban trees to be planted in England
(27th Jan 2020) These are the climate tipping points we simply can't cross
(23rd Jan 2020) Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away: study
(21st Jan 2020) Madacascar Is Planting 60 Million Trees in Ambitious Drive Inspired by Its President
(15th Jan 2020) Climate emergency: 2019 was second hottest year on record
(27th Dec 2019) 2019: The year rainforests burned
(27th Nov 2019) Climate emergency: world 'may have crossed tipping points’
(18th Nov 2019) Amazon deforestation ‘at highest level in a decade’
(6th Nov 2019) Money and maps: is this how to save the Amazon's 400bn trees?
(5th Nov 2019) Climate crisis: 11,000 scientists warn of ‘untold suffering’
(30th Oct 2019) Climate emissions from tropical forest damage ‘underestimated by a factor of six’
(23rd Oct 2019) Amazon rainforest ‘close to irreversible tipping point’
(9th Oct 2019) Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions
(24th Sept 2019) Norway is paying $150 million to Gabon to protect its forests
(24th Sept 2019) Climate Change: What is being done around the world to plant trees?
(22nd Sept 2019) Earth may be in its hottest five-year period ever recorded
(23rd Sept 2019) Indonesia haze causes sky to turn blood red
(30th Aug 2019) Amazon fires ‘extraordinarily concerning’, warns UN biodiversity chief
(27th Aug 2019) Amazon fires: Brazil to reject G7 offer of $22m aid
(23rd Aug 2019) Amazon fires: Merkel and Macron urge G7 to debate 'emergency'
(31st July 2019) Greenland's ice sheet melting so fast it has caused global sea levels to rise 0.5mm in just a month
(31st July 2019) Climate change: UK's 10 warmest years all occurred since 2002
(18th July 2019) Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic On Fire
(24th July 2019) Climate change: Current warming 'unparalleled' in 2,000 years
(11th June 2019) Forest twice size of UK destroyed in decade for big consumer brands – report
(10th June 2019) Scientist makes case for stabilizing forest carbon to help mitigate climate change
(13th May 2019) Carbon dioxide levels are at a record high. Here's what you need to know.


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