The Cork Oak forests in southern Europe play a huge role in maintaining biodiversity, regulating water cycles, as well as preventing the spread of desertification.
… Europe’s cork oak forests 'ripe for expansion' Nick Breeze | 4th September 2019 News Forests Thought Leaders Cork Oak Harvest The Cork Oak forests in southern Europe play a huge role in …
The rainforest contains eight World Heritage Sites and is critical to fighting climate change. But recent moves by the DRC government have conservationists worried. JOE SANDLER CLARKE reports for UNEARTED
… decision to open up parts of two protected forests to oil exploration has also proved … be “irresponsible”. He said: “These peat forests are some of the most carbon-dense … Auditor General criticised its International Forests and Climate Initiative, stating: …
A recently discovered peatland in northeast Peru contains two years worth of US carbon emissions, writes Joe Sandler Clarke, but it's under threat from the rapidly advancing 'palm oil frontier'. Now scientists are calling for the wetland's immediate protection - before it's too late to save it.
… Energydesk | 23rd March 2017 News Peru Forests Emissions Climate Change Biodiversity …
Fires have become a regular occurrence in Indonesia since the rapid expansion of the palm oil trade in the 1990s. JOE SANDLER CLARKE from Unearthed reports
… peatland and a raft of moves to protect rainforests. The Washington Post reported at the …
Impunity reigns in the Amazon, write Joe Sandler Clarke & Sam Cowie, and the indigenous peoples of the forest are the big losers as they suffer repeated killings and land grabs. Big cuts to Funai, the agency meant to protect Brazil's indigenous tribes, have encouraged land barons to expand their land holdings into indigenous territories and murder any who resist.
… Indigenous Peoples Brazil Land Grabs Politics Forests Human Rights brazil-indians-cut.jpg …
The World Meteorological Organisation has delivered a sobering report on the state of global climate at COP25 in Madrid.
The decade climate change was baked in Nick Breeze | 3rd December 2019 News Climate Change World Meteorological Organisation Forest Fires Drought Sea-levels Thought Leaders WMO Panel with Secretary …
President Trump's recent executive order could open an area of America's most precious landscapes bigger than Yellowstone to oil drilling and coal mining, write Lawrence Carter & Joe Sandler Clarke. The 27 monuments 'under review' harbour huge volumes of oil, gas and coal: just what's needed to fuel Trump's vision of fossil fuel-led development - never mind the cost to scenery, wildlife, historic sites and indigenous cultures.
… Ears is a giant expanse of red rock, juniper forests and high plateaus that is sacred to … to these beautiful mountains, streams, and forests, and improved staffing and safety on …
Lisa Walker has been focused on the climate change issue for 20 years. Her mission today is to democratise carbon markets in order to protect and restore the worlds natural carbon sinks. If successful, this equates to a saving of 37 percent of global emissions, whilst establishing vast new carbon markets. NICK BREEZE reports
… the farmers who have to live among the rainforests we must preserve (environmental … just from avoiding the conversion of forests. And many more gigatonnes available …
International development programmes promoting water security and helping refugees in Uganda have been hit by the fall in the value of the pound.
Aid ‘scaled back’ since the Brexit referendum Joe Sandler Clarke | 19th October 2018 Comment Unearthed Brexit Referendum gettyimages-1047944518.jpg International development programmes promoting …
Closing a bottle with cork significantly reduces the carbon footprint of wine packaging and helps sustain vital ecosystems.
… of the 2.2 million hectares of native cork forests across seven countries in the Western … world’s 35 biodiversity ‘hot spots’. The cork forests are well known as a keystone species …
Sir David King stepped down this year having been chief science advisor to prime ministers Blair, Brown, Cameron and May. In this interview with NICK BREEZE, he makes his case as to why we need a climate restoration agenda to avert ecological disaster
… the business of reforesting, to create more forests and pulling the carbon dioxide out. … - whether it is referring to soils, forests, oceans, agriculture - all involves …
Film maker Nick Breeze has conducted a series of interviews with experts on 'geo-engineering' to forestall runaway global warming. Here he presents the distilled wisdom from his meetings - and concludes that we should at least be experimenting with the techniques, and studying their impacts.
… revolution. With dying oceans and rain forests, droughts affecting agriculture, …
French parliamentarians scrapped plans for a tax on palm oil in 2016 after being warned that passing the law could lead to the execution of a French citizen in Indonesia.
… the destruction of swathes of carbon-rich forests and peatlands. In the summer of 2016, …
The World Economic Forum is a beast with two heads; the first is old-world economic growth and capitalism, while the new is one set on solving the mountain of problems created by the other. How can events like the WEF be 'retooled' to serve succeeding generations? NICK BREEZE reports
Deluging Davos: the World Economic Forum could do with an 'avalanche of youth' Nick Breeze | 29th January 2018 Comment Davos Climate Change Donald Trump prof_gail_whiteman_-_nick_breeze.jpg The World …
The IPCC's 'Representative Concentration Pathways' are based on fantasy technology that must draw massive volumes of CO2 out of the atmosphere late this century, writes Nick Breeze - an unjustified hope that conceals a very bleak future for Earth, and humanity.
Survivable IPCC projections are based on science fiction - the reality is much worse Nick Breeze | 27th February 2015 Comment Climate Change Geoengineering Science Technology …
The oceans cover 72 percent of the planet - but are all but ignored in discussions about reducing levels of atmospheric carbon to preindustrial levels. In this interview with NICK BREEZE, ocean ecologist Russ George explains how ocean restoration will lower greenhouse gases and bring back fish stocks to levels not seen for generations
… We are terrestrial beings so we think about forests. So everybody on the planet knows … focussed on trying to save the remaining rainforests because 20 percent of the rainforest …
We know who the likely runners and riders are in the race to be the new Tory leader and prime minister - but where do the prospective candidates stand on fracking and other environmental issues? Joe Sandler Clarke finds them all decidedly un-green.
… badger culling and the sell-off of English forests. Given that he's spent the last few …
An interview with World Resources Institute decarbonisation specialist, Kelly Levin.
Is the COP process working? Nick Breeze | 10th December 2019 News Emissions Carbon Emissions COP25 Tipping Points WRI Kelly Levin WRI Decarbonisation interview An interview with World Resources …
A new proposal to radically reduce concentrations of methane and other greenhouse gases has been proposed by French researcher, Dr Renaud de Richter, at a recent meeting in London.
… the Sahara for instance, also fertilised the forests, especially the Amazon rainforest. NB: …