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...
Conservationists say money is step in the right direction in tackling climate change. More than 10m trees will be planted across England with the injection of £60m of new funding over five years, as part of what the government billed as its “drive to preserve the...
An Edinburgh woman has made the discovery of a lifetime after finding a “one-in-twenty-million” white truffle in her back garden. The woman, who has asked to remain anonymous, discovered the rare delicacy while tending to her vegetable patch in her garden in...
Ben van Beurden says ‘another Brazil in terms of rainforest’ will help achieve UN target. The boss of Shell has said a huge tree-planting project the size of the Amazon rainforest would be needed to meet a tougher global warming target, as he argued more renewable...
