A new study has warned that drug cartels are clearing forests to facilitate their smuggling activities, and causing “narcodeforestation” in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. According to...
Former environment minister Lord Rooker has said that planting more trees in the UK could prevent floods, as their roots would help trap excess water. He...
The environment secretary Owen Paterson has provoked a furious response from campaigners, after he said that some of Britain’s ancient woodlands could be cut down to...
Energy secretary Ed Davey has inaugurated biomass power plant Drax, which will produce electricity from wood pulp and cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Drax power station...
The Philippines’ finance minister Cesar Purisma has said that Typhoon Haiyan will have a negative effect on the country’s economy, which had been expected to grow...
Pope Francis has urged the Brazilian government to treat the Amazon as a “garden” and to help protect its environment and native people. As 3 million...
Singapore’s pollution standards index has reached the hazardous level of 371, because of the illegal burning of forests in nearby Indonesia. Singapore’s prime minister Lee Hsien...
The Woodland Trust has announced its plans to restore 52,000 hectares of damaged ancient woodland, and warned that some of the UK’s most treasured trees are...
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) recently picked out six sectors, and the ‘greening’ of which can ensure long-term prosperity for developing countries: agriculture, fisheries, forests, manufacturing, renewable...
To achieve long-term and stable prosperity, developing countries should embrace a green economy and look at sustainable trade opportunities, a new UN report has said. The...
Friends of the Earth has claimed that two high street banks are funding a palm oil company involved in land grabbing activities in Uganda, violating environmental...
Environmental economists have long recognised that great failing of our current economic system is that natural resources are rarely assigned any value. There has been no...
UN member states will meet in Istanbul over the coming days to discuss the role of forests in ensuring social and economic development. With the ‘Earth’s...
The European Commission has taken the first step towards incorporating farming and forestry, the last sectors without EU wide rules on emission, into its climate policy....
The Woodland Trust says that over 200 ancient woods are currently under threat from development because of proposed changes to planning reform laws, and more could...