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From the Brazilian Amazon to the Siberian taiga, Earth’s forests disappeared at a record rate last year, losing an area the size of Italy to agriculture, fires, logging and mining, according to analysis from the University of Maryland hosted on Global Forest Watch.

The virus is found in many parts of the world, including Africa, South America and mainland Europe.

Climate change and other factors have been pushing mosquitoes - and the diseases they carry - further north in recent years.

“I want that operation to be sold, and for the money to be invested in clean energies,” Petro said in a meeting with his Cabinet that was livestreamed on social media. “We are against fracking, because fracking is the death of nature, and the death of humanity.”

opponents warn it is a dangerous backtrack on the EU's green agenda that plays too readily into the hands of conservative forces, including those within the center-right European People's Party, von der Leyen's own political family.

“This could be an extremely problematic precedent” and a possible “first step in the deregulation wave across Europe” said Tsvetelina Kuzmanova, EU sustainable finance lead at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership — voicing concerns shared by many green groups.

The call comes as Brussels has vowed to make life easier for firms complaining about excessive regulation, as the 27-nation bloc scrambles to revamp its economic competitiveness.

Instead of burning or transporting their garden waste, residents of an English village built their own composting site

The researchers looked at six country-specific dietary scenarios, combining an agro-hydrological model with studies into optimal use. Crop redistribution and improvements to trade flow could reduce the extent of global cropland by 37–40% and irrigation water use by 78%, while meeting the nutritional requirements of the EAT-Lancet diet.

Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s future climate, we still don’t really know what’s coming. Some places are warming with more ferocity than expected. Extreme events are taking scientists by surprise. Right now, as the bald reality of climate change bears down on human life, scientists are seeing more clearly the limits of our ability to predict the exact future we face. The coming decades may be far worse, and far weirder, than the best models anticipated.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) reports that Germany generated 72.2 TWh of solar in Germany in 2024, accounting for 14% of total electricity generation.

“It’s not easy moving inland, I was born and raised by the seas, I am a fisherman. I know the flow of tides and currents, I know when the wind will come strongly and when it will rain – but now I don’t understand why everything is changing,” says James, who is in his early 40s.

He says the tides “seem to be growing every day”.

“I heard them say it’s global warming. I left school and ran away to go fishing, so now I don’t know what’s global warming, but the rains don’t come when it’s supposed to, the winds have changed,” James says.

“Maybe we offended the sea gods, I don’t know, but now I have to move my family inland,” he says.

Unilever is folding together its sustainability and external communications departments, months after scaling back its environmental targets as the company shifts its sustainability strategy.