Deforestation of Amazon rainforest accelerates amid COVID-19 pandemic. Indigenous communities struggle to protect themselves and the rainforest from illegal invaders.[…]
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Category: Climate change
This pandemic is an environmental issue
For years it has been known that the risk of novel diseases in humans can be increased through our behaviour[…]
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My generation is fighting to keep Africa green.
As part of the Fridays for Future movement in Uganda, despite our ongoing studies, we have dedicated time to growing[…]
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Trump hitting environment under cover of coronavirus
Trump is rolling back environmental protection laws whilst attention is distracted by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more
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Chevron condemned for harassment of environmental lawyer
Twenty-nine Nobel laureates have condemned alleged “judicial harassment” by Chevron and urged the release of a US environmental lawyer who[…]
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Climate crises will be as abrupt as coronavirus
The coronavirus isn’t a reason to put climate policy on hold. It’s a warning of the calamities ahead. Read more.
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Action to curb Amazon rainforest landgrabbers
Brazil plans to increase oversight of the Amazon rainforest to curb land grabbers and illegal loggers who have caused a[…]
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Serious concerns about USA’s ability to respond to predicted extreme weather events during COVID-19 crisis
The flooding, hurricanes and wildfires that now regularly arrive in the U.S. each spring and summer, after all, are not[…]
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Amsterdam to replace growth goals with sustainability post-COVID-19
Amsterdam is to embrace the ‘doughnut’ economic model, which replaces growth goals with well-being and sustainability, to mend the post-coronavirus[…]
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Business and political leaders call for Green reboot after COVID-19
Hundreds of European business and political leaders are calling of the necessary massive reboot of economies after COVID-19 to be[…]
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