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The inconvenient truth about tree planting
What’s happening? The UK government’s tree-planting targets are likely to be missed due to the fact there are not enough trees ...
Anja Pries
November 12, 2021
Why we shouldn’t focus too much on extinction
What’s happening? The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has declared a further 23 species, including 11 birds and two ...
Anja Pries
October 15, 2021
China prepares draft biodiversity declaration ahead of summit
What’s happening? China will call on countries to acknowledge the importance of biodiversity to human health and will endorse Chinese ...
Katie Chan
September 3, 2021
How DNA analysis can help save endangered species – and track our food
What’s happening? A $15m scheme hoping to describe and identify freshwater ecosystem biodiversity has been launched by the International Union ...
Anja Pries
July 9, 2021
Killing nature could become a crime
What’s happening? The Stop Ecocide Foundation has drawn up a definition of ecocide with the intention that it is adopted ...
Katie Chan
July 2, 2021
Sierra Leone agrees $55m rainforest sale with China
What’s happening? The government of Sierra Leone has agreed a $55m deal with China that will see the construction of ...
Katie Chan
May 27, 2021
California seeks to prevent Nestle from taking water from forest
What’s happening? Water officials in drought-stricken California have presented a draft cease-and-desist order to Nestle in order to try to ...
Katie Chan
May 13, 2021
Face masks and the future
What’s happening? Potentially dangerous particles leach from disposable plastic face masks (DPFs) when exposed to water, a Swansea University study ...
Nicola Watts
May 7, 2021