Environmental Protection
From Africa to Vietnam: the flow of ivory is relentless
The Southeast Asian nation is the most important hub of the illegal global ivory trade.
Climate change has brought record heat and ice melt to Europe
Heatwave records across Europe keep being broken this summer, providing a foretaste of climate change.
Forest elephants aid in more effective carbon capture
The proportion of trees with high density wood is higher in forests with elephants.
Traditional Chinese medicine is a scourge on exotic wildlife
Ground tiger bones or whiskers do nothing to alleviate meningitis or malaria.
Climate change will force us to reevaluate our priorities
Measures like mitigation and adaptation can achieve a lot but even they have their limits.
Our global ecological footprints have ‘grown larger’
The so-called Earth Overshoot Day was at the end of July this year.