Lion, jaguar and leopard body parts are being increasingly sought as substitutes to tiger products by traffickers, a major UN report has found, but demand for ivory and rhino horn has shown signs of a sustained fall. Wildlife trafficking continues to pose a major threat to nature, global biodiversity and human health, the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has warned, following an analysis of trends in the multibillion dollar illegal wildlife trade. Read more here #coal #

The record-breaking heatwave in the Siberian Arctic was made at least 600 times more likely by human-caused climate change, according to a study. Between January and June, temperatures in the far north of Russia were more than 5C above average, causing permafrost to melt, buildings to collapse, and sparking an unusually early and intense start to the forest fires season. On 20 June, a monitoring station in Verkhoyansk registered a record high of 38C. Read more here #coal #pow

Her black boots brushing through swathes of yellow-brown bush, 24-year-old Purity Amleset is feeling tense. But fear is just part of the job, she says, as she patrols her section of the 147,000-hectare (363,000-acre) community land around Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, a Unesco-designated biosphere reserve. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecofri

The UK government is poised to reveal plans for a new state-backed green bank to help finance Britain’s climate ambitions, three years after ministers agreed to sell the UK’s Green Investment Bank. Kwasi Kwarteng, the energy minister, said that he expects the government to set out how it plans to create a successor to the Green Investment Bank “in the not-too-distant future”. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarmin

Returning an area the size of Dorset to wild nature, reintroducing extinct lynx, pelicans and beavers and championing regenerative farming to restore soil health are the radical aims of a new charitable foundation. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecofriendly #singleuseplastics #awareness #thebigblueblueprint #bigblueblueprint #waste #lovetheplane

More than 200,000 tonnes of tiny plastic particles are blown from roads into the oceans every year, according to research. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecofriendly #singleuseplastics #awareness #thebigblueblueprint #bigblueblueprint #waste #lovetheplanet #climatechange #globalwarming #climatechange #climateaction

Livestock farming and fossil fuels are main causes of rise in gas, which is 28 times more powerful than CO2 at trapping heat. Animal farming and fossil fuels have driven global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane to the highest level on record, putting the world on track for dangerously increased heat levels of 3C to 4C. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #sa

There is a serious risk that parts of England will run out of water within 20 years, MPs have warned. The public accounts committee said the bodies responsible for water in the UK had “taken their eye off the ball” and the scale of leakage – more than 3bn litres a day – was “wholly unacceptable”. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecofriendly #singl

Bees and other wild pollinators are not being protected from decline by the EU, with loopholes even allowing for the use of banned pesticides known to be major killers of key species. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecofriendly #singleuseplastics #awareness #thebigblueblueprint #bigblueblueprint #waste #lovetheplanet #climatechange #globalwarming

Wild bison are to return to the UK for the first time in 6,000 years, with the release of a small herd in Kent planned for spring 2022. The £1m project to reintroduce the animals will help secure the future of an endangered species. But they will also naturally regenerate a former pine wood plantation by killing off trees. This creates a healthy mix of woodland, scrub and glades, boosting insect, bird and plant life. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #

The Great Barrier Reef Foundation has raised only $21.7m out of a target of $357m in donations more than two years after it was awarded the largest single environmental grant in Australian history. It has prompted Labor to call for greater transparency from the foundation about its fundraising, while the Greens have said the figure “makes a mockery of the government’s logic” for awarding the grant. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #

Business, charity and trade body leaders urge Johnson to tackle inequality and climate crisis. Read more here #coal #power#energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecofriendly #singleuseplastics #awareness #thebigblueblueprint #bigblueblueprint #waste #lovetheplanet #climatechange #globalwarming #climatechange #climateaction

Governments urged to act to avoid disaster from recession caused by coronavirus. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecofriendly #singleuseplastics #awareness #thebigblueblueprint #bigblueblueprint #waste #lovetheplanet #climatechange #globalwarming #climatechange #climateaction

Empty streets and skies let the birds be heard and leave animals free to roam as well as allowing scientists to examine how humans change urban biodiversity Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecofriendly #singleuseplastics #awareness #thebigblueblueprint #bigblueblueprint #waste #lovetheplanet #climatechange #globalwarming #climatechange #climateact

This year is on course to be the world’s hottest since measurements began, according to meteorologists, who estimate there is a 50% to 75% chance that 2020 will break the record set four years ago. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecofriendly #singleuseplastics #awareness #thebigblueblueprint #bigblueblueprint #waste #lovetheplanet #climatechang

Daily CO2counts from Hawaii make depressing reading – but this year the usual pattern may change Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecofriendly #singleuseplastics #awareness #thebigblueblueprint #bigblueblueprint #waste #lovetheplanet #climatechange #globalwarming #climatechange #climateaction

In cities, human lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic have offered some respite to the natural world, with clear skies and the return of wildlife to waterways. Now evidence of a drop in underwater noise pollution has led experts to predict the crisis may also be good news for whales and other sea mammals. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecof

The coronavirus pandemic is likely to be followed by even more deadly and destructive disease outbreaks unless their root cause – the rampant destruction of the natural world – is rapidly halted, the world’s leading biodiversity experts have warned. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecofriendly #singleuseplastics #awareness #thebigblueblueprint #bi

The discovery of microplastic pollution near the top of the highest mountain in Wales is a "scary wake-up call", environmentalists have said. Read more here #coal #power #energy #fossilfuels #britain #uk #climatechange #solutions #globalwarming #reduce #reuse #recycle #sustainability #savetheplanet #eco #ecofriendly #singleuseplastics #awareness #thebigblueblueprint #bigblueblueprint #waste #lovetheplanet #climatechange #globalwarming #climatechange #climateaction

It is a global emergency that has already killed on a mass scale and threatens to send millions more to early graves. As its effects spread, it could destabilise entire economies and overwhelm poorer countries lacking resources and infrastructure. But this is the climate crisis, not the coronavirus. Governments are not assembling emergency national plans and you’re not getting push notifications transmitted to your phone breathlessly alerting you to dramatic twists and develo