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Oceans

Fishing area in the Antarctic becomes ocean sanctuary

An NGO-industry collaboration to protect the Antarctic Ocean today announces a big step forward with a year-round closure of a 4500km2 area of ocean around Hope Bay in the northern…

by James Hanson December 11, 2020

People swimming in the sea with an oil platform in the distance

Climate change

Denmark stops new oil and gas, campaigners say UK must follow suit

Denmark will cancel all future licensing rounds for new oil and gas in the Danish part of the North Sea and end existing production by 2050.

by Emily Black December 4, 2020

A group of around 20 adults and children stand by a river in a group, all looking into the camera. Some of the children are wet from swimming in the river.

Environmental justice

Meet the Indigenous community that’s fighting deforestation – and winning

Through high-tech forest monitoring and persistent legal action against invasions, the Karipuna Indigenous People are beginning to win the fight against deforestation in their Amazon lands. Here’s their remarkable story.

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson November 30, 2020

Air pollution

The 2030 ban on new petrol and diesel cars, explained

The UK government announced it will ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030 — a full decade earlier than planned. It’s a major win for…

by Sam Wockner November 20, 2020

A worker in a hard hat and harness crouches on top of an offshore wind turbine. Other turbines are visible in the background.

Renewable energy

Government commits to powering the UK with offshore wind energy

The government just announced a major push for offshore wind power, marking an important milestone in renewable energy in the UK. Now it’s time for Boris Johnson and his ministers…

by Ariana Densham October 26, 2020

Climate change

UPDATED: BP promised to produce much less oil. Two years later, they’ve changed their minds.

BP's new strategy drastically scales back the company's climate commitments from just a few years earlier

by Samantha Wockner, Mal Chadwick August 7, 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

Pupils at Georgeham Primary in Devon play football in front of the school's new solar panels

Climate change

The UK just went two months without coal power

In the 21st century, every piece of coal we don’t burn is a small victory for life on Earth.

by Mal Chadwick May 14, 2020

Activists on Boat alongside BP Oil Rig in the North Sea

Climate change

The court case that could spoil BP’s North Sea oil drilling plans

It’s clear that any new oil and gas drilling will hurt our chances of tackling climate change. But in 2018, the government granted BP a permit for a new oil…

by Alia Al Ghussain May 12, 2020

Air pollution

In the world’s first ‘Coronavirus elections’, South Korea voted for climate action

In the first national elections in the time of Covid-19, South Korea’s Democratic Party won in a landslide – after putting forward a bold Green New Deal plan in their…

by Helle Abelvik-Lawson April 23, 2020