Environmental Protection
To combat climate change, let’s start planting trees. ASAP
Current ecosystems could support an extra 0.9 billion hectares of continuous forest.
The illegal wildlife trade is still thriving on Facebook
The Sun newspaper in the UK has found endangered animal being peddled online, including cheetahs, leopards and tigers.
Study: we must cease adding to our fossil fuel infrastructure
Existing infrastructure will emit about 658 gigatons of CO2, depending on assumed lifetimes and utilization rates.
Banning single-use plastics helps. Not using them voluntarily helps too
A global initiative called Plastic Free July challenges people not to use disposable plastic items for a month.
Canada leads the way in banning all shark fins
Tens of millions of sharks, large and small, are slaughtered each year for their fins.
Extreme heat is gripping Europe in a foretaste of climate change
"The south of France is going to become tropical," says Freddy Cerda, mayor of Gallargues-le-Montueux.