Environment
British food companies still using palm oil irresponsibly named and shamed
Long-standing commitments by brands and industry to eliminate destruction caused by their palm oil supply chains have failed, the WWF said.
Climate change moment of crisis has come, warns Sir David Attenborough
Naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough said action has been put off ‘year after year’ but there is no more time to ‘prevaricate’.
2010s hottest decade on record, with 2019 second hottest year
2019 was the second warmest year in records dating back to the 19th century, an assessment shows.
Watch Helen Mirren and Olivia Colman voice turtles in ‘heartbreaking’ Greenpeace animation
Wallace And Gromit creators Aardman have made the film with Greenpeace who urge people to sign petition for global ocean treaty
Government criticised for prioritising FlyBe shareholders like Virgin over environment as airline collapse averted
“Cutting the cost of domestic flights while allowing train fares to rise is the exact opposite of what we need if we’re to cut climate-wrecking emissions from transport” said Greenpeace
Sir David Attenborough warns that humans ‘have overrun the world’
His new film David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet will first be shown in April.
More than 1,000 ancient woodlands under threat
The Woodland Trust has called for real protection for irreplaceable wooded habitats.
World’s oceans were the warmest in 2019 than at any other time in recorded human history
Ocean temperatures were about 0.075 degrees Celsius above the 1981-2010 average last year.
Vegetables dropped from sky in Australia for fire-affected wallabies
Sweet potato and carrots were dropped for the animals in New South Wales.