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Search results for ‘Forests’
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Sussex plans to restore kelp forests to fight climate change
It’s brown, smelly and elusive and it plays a key role in the fight against climate change. Giant
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“Our economy drives deforestation” – Suzanne Simard on protecting our forests
In today’s episode of Ways to Change the World, Krishnan Guru-Murthy speak to ecologist Suzanne Simard about how her work could help protect forests from climate change.
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Rare rainforests in Devon will be restored after huge charity donation
Today sees one of the biggest ever corporate donations for nature – allowing the UK network of Wildlife Trusts to restore one of the rarest types of rainforest on the planet. In Devon.
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Oleg Sentsov: From the red carpet to fighting in the forests of Kyiv
We spoke to the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who just weeks ago joined former presidents and serving ministers on the red carpet to celebrate his new film.
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‘Dramatic effect’ of bushmeat hunting on African rainforests
Researchers in Sweden say changes to the ecological makeup of Africas rainforests caused by increased hunting of bushmeat are as dramatic as those due to logging.
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Forests sell-off: ‘We want to protect them’
The “primary reason” for the sell-off of large parts of England’s public forests is to ensure they have better protection in future, the Environment Secretary tells Channel 4 News.
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English forests to be leased out
Around 18 per cent of England’s publicly-owned forests – which the Government had planned to sell into private hands – are to be offered on 150-year leases.
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FactCheck: were the Greek wildfires caused by climate change?
This summer has already been marked as another year with record-breaking heat right across the globe, from China to North Africa and North America to Europe. In the past week at least 34 people died from spreading wildfires in Algeria, while in the Greek island of Rhodes thousands were evacuated due to wildfires following extreme…
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COP15: ‘Historic deal’ agreed to protect 30% of planet Earth by 2030
A global deal aimed at reversing biodiversity loss and setting the natural world on a path to recovery has been adopted by the COP15 UN conference in Montreal.
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Chimps have killed or injured dozens of children in Uganda (dubbed)
In Uganda, the encroachment of settlements into the country’s western forests has sparked a battle between humans and chimpanzees.
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From extreme heat to drought: Europe’s summer of excess
While forests across Europe burn, other parts of the continent are underwater.
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‘We can defend, but can’t attack’ without more jets and tanks, Ukrainian soldier says
We caught up with the filmmaker-turned-soldier Oleg Sentsov.
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COP26: ‘Game-changing’ pledges on methane emissions and deforestation
The 120 world leaders who came to Glasgow in a fanfare of hope and big promises are now on their way home, after signing up to some aspirational agreements to halt the destruction of forests and slash methane emissions over the next decade.
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COP26: Will countries be able to deliver on deforestation pledge?
Some 110 nations have signed up to the pledge to protect and expand the world’s forests, with plenty of bold declarations about the importance of saving the “lungs of the earth” – and there’s some big money behind it too.
