Environmental Protection
Australia’s bushfires destroyed a fifth of the country’s forests
In just a few months some 5.8 million hectares of broadleaf forest burned down in New South Wales and Victoria.
Climate change will cause cold-blooded animals to age faster
A warming environment speeds up the rate of living in cold-blooded animals, causing them to die younger.
New Svalbard seed deposits protect against biodiversity loss
"The Seed Vault is the ultimate insurance policy for the world’s food supply," says Stefan Schmitz of Global Crop Diversity Trust.
Will Beijing’s new ban on the illegal wildlife trade succeed?
It has taken a deadly viral outbreak, but China has finally banned the wildlife trade.
WWF: losing nature means losing our economy
A new report suggests that the price tag our current economic model will exact on nature is $9.87 trillion.
Shade-growing cacao can help mitigate climate change
Many farmers may have been growing cocoa beans all wrong.