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03 10 2019 | 13:52

New gel-like material can stop wildfires for months at a time.

A novel preventive technique developed at Stanford could help slash the incidence and severity of wildfires. The technique involves an environmentally-benign gel that helps common fire-retardants…

24 09 2019 | 11:45

UNECE and Mayors launch Trees in Cities challenge to scale up climate action in urban areas.

Urban areas are responsible for an estimated 75% of C02 emissions worldwide, making city-level action critical for global efforts to address the climate emergency. Mayors and other key urban leaders…

21 09 2019 | 12:25

Can the 'Great Green Wall' fight climate change in Africa?

"The Great Green Wall" is an ambitious African-led initiative to grow an 8,000-kilometre forest across the entire width of Africa's Sahel. The project, which started in 2007, aims to combat the…

12 08 2019 | 08:40

Ethiopia sets new global tree planting record.

Ethiopia has set a new world record for most trees every planted in a single day, planting over 350 million seedlings and young plants in an effort to reverse the effects of deforestation and climate…

06 08 2019 | 08:13

Ethiopia plants over 350 million trees in a day, setting new world record.

In a record-breaking day this week, at the Gulele Botanical Garden in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia launched an historic tree planting campaign. Over 350 million trees were planted in an ambitious move to…

19 07 2019 | 12:07

In best-case reforestation scenario, trees could remove most of the carbon humans have added to the atmosphere.

A study finds that close to a trillion trees could potentially be planted on Earth—enough to sequester more than 200 billion tons of carbon. But environmental change on this scale is no easy task.…

06 07 2019 | 11:41

Restoring Forests Could Help Put a Brake on Global Warming

What if we stopped cutting down forests to produce palm oil and cattle? What if we grew new forests on vacant city lots, old industrial buildings — even golf courses?