Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: report
Market-based approaches to forest conservation like carbon offsets and deforestation-free certification schemes have largely failed…
Author: Nick Perry
Increasingly hot European summers are harming health, report says
Heat stress in Europe is increasingly threatening people’s health as global warming makes summers there…
Europe suffered record number of ‘extreme heat stress’ days in 2023: monitors
Europe endured a record number of “extreme heat stress” days in 2023, two leading climate…
Future of Africa’s flamingos threatened by rising lakes: study
The lakes where Africa’s flamingos congregate in spectacular numbers are producing less food for the…
Despite gains in Brazil, forest destruction still ‘stubbornly’ high: report
The world lost 10 football fields of old-growth tropical forest every minute in 2023 and…
Planting trees in wrong places heats the planet: study
Planting trees in the wrong places can actually contribute to global warming, scientists said on…
No ‘human era’ in Earth’s geological history, scientists say
A top panel of geologists has decided not to grant the ‘human age’ its own…
Rising scourge of e-waste a ‘catastrophe’ for environment: UN
The world threw away a record amount of smartphones, televisions and other electrical devices in…