Environment

From: Witness
Holding Up the Sky: Saving the Indigenous Yanomami tribe in Brazil’s Amazon
A Brazilian tribal leader warns that illegal mining in forests will have dire consequences for the rest of the world.
Video Duration 47 minutes 24 seconds
Published On 18 Apr 2024
Video Duration 47 minutes 24 seconds
From: Dying Earth
After the Hurricane
The effect the carbon footprint of rich countries is having on developing nations who enjoy very few of the benefits.
Published On 17 Apr 2024
From: NewsFeed
World’s coral reefs face global bleaching crisis
A mass bleaching event caused by high ocean temperatures is threatening the survival of coral reefs around the world.
Video Duration 02 minutes 14 seconds
Published On 17 Apr 2024
Video Duration 02 minutes 14 seconds
From: Counting the Cost
Why is Germany maintaining economic ties with China?
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been on a three-day visit to China in a bid to shore up economic ties.
Video Duration 27 minutes 45 seconds
Published On 17 Apr 2024
Video Duration 27 minutes 45 seconds

The 2,300km (1,429-mile) reef is in its fifth mass bleaching event since 2016 and aerial surveys reveal scale of damage.

An underwater photo shows bleached and dead coral around Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef. Land can be seen in the background.

Emergency response efforts have been complicated by poor weather conditions and damaged roads.

Local residents carry they belongings in a flooded street

Some of the ‘prophets of doom’ of the 60s whose warnings went unheeded assess the current environmental fragility.

Drained in 1962 and restored again to wetlands in 2018, Lake Karla is now triple its normal size.

Greek valley that became a lake stirs drought debate

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President Mokgweetsi Masisi offers to send the animals as a ‘gift’ to Berlin amid a dispute over hunting trophies.

An African Safari

Smog-ridden cities in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India had the poorest air quality last year, says report.

Children are silhouetted as they play cricket amid smog, as air pollution levels rise in Karachi, Pakistan.

Top growers in Ivory Coast and Ghana are facing catastrophic harvests, resulting in record-high cocoa prices.

Janet Gyamfi, 52, a cocoa farmer, visits her cocoa plantation destroyed by illegal gold mining in the Samreboi community in the Western Region, Ghana, February 26

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Global nuclear power generation is set to peak next year, despite claims it is dangerous and costly.

The new environmental regulations fall short of more ambitious goals previously set by the Biden administration.

Joe Biden speaking at electric vehicle factory

KLM found to have used ‘misleading and therefore illegal’ adverts to bolster green credentials.

A KLM commercial passenger jet takes off in Blagnac near Toulouse, France, May 29, 2019