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Last updated: 2026-01-09 19:33:01
  • On Brazil’s Combu Island, chocolate makers hold clues to climate action
    Published on: 2025-11-17 12:00 | Source: news.un.org

    Combu Island – Ilha do Combu in Portuguese – rises like a wall of living green from Brazil’s Guamá River. It is a testament to centuries of shared existence between the forest and its riverside communities. Here, cupuaçu, taperebá, pupunha, araçá and cacao are more than fruits; they are threads in the fabric of local culture, livelihoods and identity.

  • COP30: Climate crisis is a health crisis, WHO warns as philanthropies pledge $300m for solutions
    Published on: 2025-11-14 12:00 | Source: news.un.org

    Climate change is already fueling a global health emergency, killing more than half a million people each year through extreme heat and threatening hospitals worldwide, according to a major report released on Friday at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

  • From Haiti to Ethiopia: voices of climate displacement at COP30
    Published on: 2025-11-13 12:00 | Source: news.un.org

    Floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms are forcing millions from their homes every year. Most never cross a border; they remain internally displaced yet uprooted all the same. But experts warn that in the not-so-distant future, entire nations could disappear beneath rising seas or become uninhabitable through drought.

  • At-risk mountain vipers and iguanas, in rare company at key wildlife talks
    Published on: 2025-11-12 12:00 | Source: news.un.org

    Renewed efforts to protect the world’s most exotic and endangered animals and plants from illegal traders, overexploitation and extinction are set to begin at UN-partnered biodiversity talks in Uzbekistan at the end of the month.

  • These robots can clean, exercise - and care for you in old age. Would you trust them to?
    Published on: 2025-10-28 00:04 | Source: feeds.bbci.co.uk

    It sounds like something from a sci-fi film - but some scientists believe this clever new tech could help alleviate strains on the UK care system

  • Landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions in tatters after US pressure
    Published on: 2025-10-17 16:31 | Source: feeds.bbci.co.uk

    President Trump intervened in the talks calling the deal a "green scam".

  • Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims
    Published on: 2025-10-15 02:40 | Source: feeds.bbci.co.uk

    The Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint by environment charity River Action.

  • Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'
    Published on: 2025-10-10 08:01 | Source: feeds.bbci.co.uk

    Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

  • 'How growing a sunflower helped me fight anorexia'
    Published on: 2025-10-10 05:04 | Source: feeds.bbci.co.uk

    'Green social prescribing' schemes are being used by NHS doctors to improve patients' mental health.

  • The before and after images showing glaciers vanishing before our eyes
    Published on: 2025-10-05 00:28 | Source: feeds.bbci.co.uk

    They are melting like never seen before, changing landscapes around the world beyond recognition.