Environment

Global response ‘keeps door open’ to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius – UN

An unprecedented worldwide effort is underway to combat climate change, building confidence that nations can cost effectively meet their stated objective of keeping global temperature rise to under 2 degrees Celsius, the United Nations said on 30...

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Parliament slams door on Commission’s GM crop policy

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Conservationists warn Africa’s vultures are sliding towards extinction

Six of Africa’s 11 vulture species – the continent’s largest and most recognisable birds of prey – are now at a higher risk of extinction, according to the latest assessment of birds for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, carried out by...

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Greenpeace calls on Indonesia’s plantation industry to adopt Fire Action Plan

Greenpeace has launched a challenge to the plantation industry to respond to the devastating scale of the forest fires crisis, set out in a new Greenpeace Southeast Asia analysis. The four-step Fire Action Plan aims to bring the fires under control...

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