Environment news

• The world in 2021 – how global politics will change this year

  03-01-2021 12:00
  
  Donald Trump’s departure will alter the face of geopolitics. The climate crisis and Covid response will affect all nations – while others face very particular challenges. Observer correspondents examine the 12 months aheadA potent mix of hope and fear accompanies the start of 2021 in most of the world. Scientists have created several vaccines for a disease that didn’t even have a name this time last year. But many countries, including the UK and the US, are still stumbling thro
  
  Read more

• South African game reserves forced to cull animals as Covid halts tourism

  03-01-2021 11:45
  
  Tourist lodges run out of cash to feed and care for the animals on their land and thousands of villagers lose their jobsImpala run through the thorn bush, ibis fly above the lake and lightning forks over the horizon as a storm rolls in from the Drakensberg mountains.The visitors driven across the 10,000 or more hectares of the Nambiti game reserve in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province see what they think is an unchanged, and unchanging natural landscape. Continue reading...
  
  Read more

• Greta Thunberg at 18: 'I'm not telling anyone what to do'

  03-01-2021 10:21
  
  Environmental activist says she has stopped buying new clothes but will not criticise those who fly or have childrenThe environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg says she has stopped buying new clothes and holds no grudges against people who fly or decide to have children.In an interview to mark her 18th birthday, the Swedish activist offered a relaxed view when asked about celebrities who trumpet their environmental awareness yet contribute to carbon emissions by using passenger aircraft. Continu
  
  Read more

• Jane Goodall: 'Change is happening. There are many ways to start moving in the right way'

  03-01-2021 10:00
  
  The primatologist and ecological activist on why population isn’t the cause of climate change, and why she’s encouraging optimismJane Goodall is a primatologist who is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on chimpanzees. She has spent 60 years studying the chimps that live in the Gombe Stream national park and she is a prominent advocate, via several foundations, of protecting the great apes and their habitats. She has been presented with awards by the UN and vari
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Child labour, toxic leaks: the price we could pay for a greener future

  03-01-2021 09:15
  
  Our mission to create cleaner living using natural resources could itself cause widespread environmental harm, scientists now warn
  The battle to stave off Earth’s looming climate crisis is driving engineers to develop hosts of new green technologies. Wind and solar plants are set to replace coal and gas power stations, while electric cars oust petrol and diesel vehicles from our roads. Slowly our dependance on fossil fuels is set to diminish and so ease global heating.But scientists warn t
  
  Read more

• A wing and a prayer: how birds are coping with the climate crisis

  03-01-2021 07:45
  
  Some of our best-loved species are changing their breeding cycles and heading north in their fight for survival in a warmer worldLockdown has sparked a renewed interest in our garden birds, with millions of us enjoying watching them from our windows. But could some species – including the common and familiar great tit – vanish from Britain’s gardens by the end of the century?Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, working with the University of Oxfo
  
  Read more

Follow @UK_Environment on Twitter!