In the districts surrounding Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, most people have little idea their villages were at the centre of a multimillion-dollar carbon boom. Punctuated…
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Amazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warn
Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could hit a tipping point by 2050 as a result of water stress, land clearance and climate disruption,…
View More Amazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warnOptimism dries up in Amazon as Lula drifts from climate priorities
What a difference a year makes in the Brazilian Amazon. At the start of 2023, I wrote about the green shoots of the rainy season…
View More Optimism dries up in Amazon as Lula drifts from climate prioritiesDeforestation effect of UK consumption unsustainable, say MPs
UK consumption is having an “unsustainable” impact on the world, and contributing particularly highly to deforestation, a report by MPs has found. Products such as…
View More Deforestation effect of UK consumption unsustainable, say MPs‘Jewel of Britain’s nature crown’: Plan to restore rainforest welcomed by campaigners
Conservationists have praised the launch of a new government strategy to revive the remaining fragments of the vast temperate rainforests that were once “one of…
View More ‘Jewel of Britain’s nature crown’: Plan to restore rainforest welcomed by campaignersRoot and branch reform: if carbon markets aren’t working, how do we save our forests?
Keeping the world’s remaining forests standing is one of the most important environmental challenges of the 21st century. Humanity will not limit global heating to…
View More Root and branch reform: if carbon markets aren’t working, how do we save our forests?The new ‘scramble for Africa’: how a UAE sheikh quietly made carbon deals for forests bigger than UK
The rights over vast tracts of African forest are being sold off in a series of huge carbon offsetting deals that cover an area of…
View More The new ‘scramble for Africa’: how a UAE sheikh quietly made carbon deals for forests bigger than UKWorld behind on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions, research finds
Coal must be phased out seven times faster than is now happening, deforestation must be reduced four times faster, and public transport around the world…
View More World behind on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions, research findsWhy is the Amazon rainforest drying up? – podcast
Ian Sample talks to Guardian global environment editor Jon Watts about the withering drought currently devastating the Amazon rainforest. Jon explains the complex mix of…
View More Why is the Amazon rainforest drying up? – podcastBeef, soy and palm oil products linked to deforestation still imported into UK
Beef, soy and palm oil products driving deforestation are still being imported into the UK, despite government promises this practice would end, data has revealed.…
View More Beef, soy and palm oil products linked to deforestation still imported into UK