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Climate Change
Introducing EarthTime: animations which show how our planet is changing
From deforestation to pandemics, this new tool visualizes planet-scale changes – aiming to bring the discussion about how we treat our home into sharp focus.
Climate Change
This online tool shows how we, and our planet, are changing
From deforestation to sea-level rises, click on any location in the world and see how it has evolved since 1984.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
We’re losing the world’s forests, but there’s a way we can fight back
Every year the world loses a forest area the size of Chicago. We must act now to address this dire situation.
Forests
Indonesia's forests are continuing to suffer from growing deforestation despite government pledges
Deforestation has ravaged Indonesia over the last twenty years, meaning the government has had to get tougher on illegal logging.
Forests
These are the 12 cities with the most trees
There's a global movement to encourage cities to grow more trees and plan more parks.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
This is how planting trees could pull 60,000 Rwandans out of poverty
Planting trees can increase land productivity as well as increase food security, allowing Rwandans to grow their own produce to sell.
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
These AI sensors could stop the illegal destruction of forests
With large bodies of trees being cut down every year, these engineers are using sensors to detect the sound of chainsaws and machinery.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
Saving India’s lifelines: what we must do to rescue our rivers
India’s rivers are depleting at an alarming rate. We urgently need to shift from thinking of how to exploit our rivers to how to revitalize them, says Sadhguru.
Chile
These dogs are helping to replant Chile's forests
After wildfires ravaged the region, Chilean authorities needed a way to plant seeds in millions of acres of land -and they found a unique one in the form of 3 dogs.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
China has sent 60,000 soldiers to plant trees
An entire army regiment has just been deployed to fight air pollution by planting more than 600 million hectares of forest.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
Tropical forests used to absorb carbon. Not any more
Tropical forests are now net emitters of carbon, according to a new study.
Forests
Why we need collaboration to save the world’s forests
It is becoming increasingly clear that we must intensify and accelerate our efforts if we are to have any chance of meeting targets to protect the world's forests.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
These global cities have the most trees
There's a global movement encouraging cities to grow more trees and plan more parks. But which ones already have the most green space?
Climate Change
5 places relocating to flee rising seas, drone-lead precision forestry and other stories you may have missed this week
Also in our round-up of top articles from the past seven days: Why Chinese cinema might boom and Finland’s secret to great schools.
Environment and Natural Resource Security
These drones can plant 100,000 trees a day
Drones could fight deforestation by planting 1 billion trees a year.