Market including food, drinks, clothing and energy has risen almost fourfold in past 20 years Ethical consumer spending has hit record levels in the UK, according to a new report that reveals the total market – including food, drinks, clothing, energy and eco-travel –...
Data confirms fears that Jair Bolsonaro’s policy encourages illegal logging in Brazil Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has surged above three football fields a minute, according to the latest government data, pushing the world’s biggest rainforest closer to a...
Research shows a trillion trees could be planted to capture huge amount of carbon dioxide Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists, who have made the first...
As part of efforts to tackle global heating, grants will be available for planting and three years’ care More than 130,000 trees are to be planted in English towns and cities over the next two years as part of the nation’s battle against global heating. The...
Nearly 8,000sq kms lost in the year to July amid alarm new president Jair Bolsonaro will make situation worse Brazil has released its worst annual deforestation figures in a decade amid fears that the situation might worsen when the avowedly anti-environmentalist...
Government advisers call for radical changes, including turning farmland into forests. Tree planting must double by 2020 as part of radical changes to land use in the UK, according to the government’s advisers on climate change. New forests would lock up carbon but...
