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The Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has closed the country’s only wild rhino sanctuary to the public amid an ongoing dispute between the owners of the land and Rhino Fund Uganda - the organisation…
As teenage pregnancies soared during coronavirus lockdowns in Africa's largest urban slum, Kibera, teachers and parents looked for a way to reduce the problem.
Their idea was to form a women's…
Researchers suggest ‘targeted reintroductions of species’ to improve situation.
Only 3 per cent of the world’s land remains ecologically intact, according to a new study which suggests damage to…
Fragments being blown across continents and threatening ecosystems, researchers warn.
Plastic particles in the air are being blown across continents by the wind, interfering with natural ecosystems …
Top Climate Economist Lord Stern Will Say Achieving Net Zero Emissions by 2050 is the Growth Story of the 21st Century.
We Don’t Have Time, Exponential Roadmap Initiative and Grantham Institute,…
As the climate emergency deepens, each successive Earth Day takes on a greater urgency in the fight against the global crisis.
Celebrated every year on April 22, the international day of…
ClientEarth calls for tobacco-like health warnings on advertisements from fossil fuel firms.
Some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies have used advertising to “greenwash” their ongoing…
Legendary naturalist explores lockdown’s influence on the environment in new documentary.
Sir David Attenborough has said that human beings have a duty to remember that we are “intruders” and “…
Leicester East member earns £81,000 a year plus expenses – and continued claiming councillor’s allowance even after becoming MP
A suspended Labour MP has said the “rich must be abolished” to combat …
Action on the climate crisis must come with a social contract to protect the poor and vulnerable.
As a climate policy researcher, I am often asked: what is the biggest obstacle to decarbonisation?…
Sometime over the last month, you probably threw away a banana. Maybe it got too ripe. Or maybe your child didn’t like the one he was eating with the spotty, brown skin. You probably didn’t think…
A US-based designer has apologised for using a portrait of a historic mosque in Kenya's island of Lamu on a T-shirt worn by celebrity Jay-Z, an official in charge of the site has told the BBC.…
Further reliance on coal and LNG will lead to ever larger and unsustainable fossil fuel subsidies.
“Gas is over”, proclaimed chief of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Werner Hoyer, at the…
Over the last few decades, African governments have removed restrictions on and privatised their mining industries, attracting significant foreign direct investment.
A farmer in Zimbabwe shares how an Oxfam initiative helped build resilience against the effects of changing rainfall patterns.
Sarah, 55, is a farmer in Nyanyadzi, Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. For nearly…
African nations aim to double funding for climate change adaptation projects to $25 billion over five years as they look to foster a green recovery from the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus…
A pair of Indigenous land defenders locked themselves to equipment at a fossil fuel pumping station in British Columbia on Saturday, vowing to continue resisting a government-owned oil pipeline that…
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