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Why Jane Goodall still has hope for us humans

“Traveling the world I’d see so many projects of restoration, people tackling what seemed impossible and not giving up.”

Impacts

Texas turtles cold stunned by winter storm as animals freeze to death across region

Turtles along the Texas Gulf Coast have been "cold stunned" by the winter storm affecting the region, washing up comatose on the shore of South Padre Island in a kind of hypothermic shock.

Solutions

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Cocoa and gunshots: The struggle to save a threatened forest in Nigeria

Nigeria's Omo Forest Reserve provides important habitat for animals such as forest elephants, as well as drinking water for the city of Lagos.But the reserve has been severely deforested.

Causes

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Bauxite mining and Chinese dam push Guinea’s chimpanzees to the brink

As he looks out on a landscape devastated by bauxite mining, Lamarana Camara remembers when chimpanzees would wander freely through the thick forests that once surrounded his village in western Guinea.

Causes

Oil palm, rubber could trigger 'storm' of deforestation in the Congo Basin

Thousands of square kilometers of the world's second-largest rainforest, the Congo Basin, sit on the verge of destruction, according to a new report released today by Earthsight, the London-based non-profit that investigates global environmental issues.

ORIGINAL REPORTING

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Why Jane Goodall still has hope for us humans

Texas turtles cold stunned by winter storm as animals freeze to death across region

Cocoa and gunshots: The struggle to save a threatened forest in Nigeria

Bauxite mining and Chinese dam push Guinea’s chimpanzees to the brink

Oil palm, rubber could trigger 'storm' of deforestation in the Congo Basin

New international carbon tax on shipping is significant, but falls short of climate goals

Tankers shipping U.S. LNG emit more greenhouse gases than all the country's electric cars can offset

UK pilot tests carbon removal by drawing CO2 from seawater instead of air

A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled

NRC denies full hearing on Palisades nuclear restart challenge

Young plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States lose Supreme Court bid but say they'll continue their pursuit of climate justice

Regulators are underestimating health impacts from air pollution: Study

Pope Francis, who used faith and science to call out the climate crisis, dies at 88