Environment

Greenpeace Director: 'India could play an heroic role at the Paris talks.'

Kumi Naidoo, the Greenpeace International Executive Director, has published an open letter to Prime Minister Modi expressing sympathy with those affected by the floods in Chennai, and saying the Indian leader could play a ‘heroic role’ at the Paris...

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Leaders pledge to restore additional 18 million hectares of critical landscapes as part of global target

The contributions come under The Bonn Challenge, a global initiative launched by Germany and IUCN in 2011 to have 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded land under restoration by 2020. This target was endorsed by the UN Climate Summit in 2014...

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Storm Desmond brings a red warning for rain over Cumbria and the Scottish Borders

Storm Desmond, the fourth named storm of the season, is bringing potentially damaging gusts of wind across northern England in particular at times on 5 December (Saturday), while the frontal systems associated with the storm are bringing heavy rain to...

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WWF statement on offshore exploration ban in Belize

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The Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System is recognized by UNESCO as having outstanding universal value to all...

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