Environment

Two decades of campaigning win one of Russia’s largest nature reserves

Russia has established one of its largest old-growth nature reserves; a 300,000 hectares area larger than the size of Luxembourg and almost as big as Maryland State in the USA, after two decades of campaigning by Greenpeace Russia and other...

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IUCN calls for halt to species decline by 2030

IUCN has issued an urgent call to massively scale up species conservation action in response to the escalating biodiversity crisis. The Abu Dhabi Call for Global Species Conservation Action appeals to the world’s governments, international agencies...

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Over half of Europe’s endemic trees face extinction

Over half (58%) of Europe’s endemic trees are threatened with extinction, according to assessments of the state of the continent’s biodiversity published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), on September 27. The introduction...

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Greenpeace report exposes how multinationals are pretending to solve the plastic crisis

A Greenpeace USA report released on October 1st, Throwing Away the Future: How Companies Still Have It Wrong on Plastic Pollution “Solutions,” warns consumers to be skeptical of the so-called solutions announced by multinational corporations to tackle...

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