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Still from an animation showing a mother and child in a kitchen at night. The child is reach up towards a giant jaguar that's sitting on the floor looking vexed

Climate change

‘There’s a monster in my kitchen’ – the true story behind the film

A jaguar’s forest home is being burned to grow animal feed for the meat industry. If we don't act, more precious habitats will be destroyed, Indigenous people could lose their…

by Florence Stuart-Leach October 21, 2020

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Forests

Are vegans and vegetarians destroying the planet?

Forests are being slashed and burned to make room for giant soya plantations. But where is all this soya going, and are vegetarian soya burgers really to blame for the…

by Aakash Naik, Jack Bullett October 1, 2020

Air pollution

Parliament asked ordinary people what the UK should do about climate change – here’s what they said

After months of learning and debate, the ‘citizens’ assembly’ on climate change has said how the UK should play its part to tackle the problem. The results might come as…

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson September 22, 2020

Trees are silhouetted against a sheet of flames as a forest fire rages in the Amazon

Forests

Tesco’s deforestation claims are misleading the public

Don’t be fooled by Tesco’s social media ads – their industrial meat is fuelling the destruction of the Amazon.

by Chiara Vitali August 14, 2020

Person in a safety hat carrying a rolled up water pipe

Forests

Watch: the firefighters saving Indonesia’s forests

They destroyed an area of forest twice the size of Paris. Now palm oil company Gama are letting fires rage on their land. Greenpeace's volunteer firefighters are stepping up to…

by Greenpeace UK August 11, 2020

Pigs crowded against the bars of their enclosure. They're lit by a camera flash, and the background is all dark.

Environmental justice

7 reasons why meat is bad for the environment

Get the facts on how the meat and dairy industry is damaging our world and heating the climate

by Natalie Brown August 3, 2020

Climate change

Seven conservation success stories from the battle to protect nature

When it’s done right, conservation can help to heal our damaged world. Let these conservation success stories inspire you to keep standing up for our home.

by Angela Glienicke July 28, 2020

Person in a traditional Indigenous headdress and facemask stand in front of a light aeroplane on a runway

Forests

Meat, soya, fire and disease: How the Amazon rainforest is breaking down

Forests around the world hold the key to solving climate change – but the Amazon and its people are more under threat than ever. The key culprit is industrial meat.

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson June 19, 2020

Aerial view of a forest. One side is blackened and bare, the other is still lush and green.

Air travel

The biggest problem with carbon offsetting is that it doesn’t really work

Airlines and oil companies love talking about carbon offsetting. But to be serious about tackling climate change, they need to stop carbon emissions from getting into the atmosphere in the…

by Alia Al Ghussain May 26, 2020

Giant iguana in a tree looking back towards the camera

Forests

Amazon wildlife: 10 bizarre creatures you could meet in the rainforest

There's a reason that the Amazon rainforest inspired scientists to invent the word 'biodiversity' - the region is home to 10 percent of all plant and animal species known on…

by Angela Glienicke May 21, 2020