Explore 12 key environmental facts about Brazil in 2025, from Amazon deforestation trends and renewable energy expansion to COP30 preparations and biodiversity conservation.
COP30: Twelve environmental facts about Brazil in 2025
Analysis: The struggle to save Zimbabwe’s dying wetlands
Zimbabwe’s wetlands are under threat from urban expansion and unsustainable agriculture. Can state and community efforts reverse the damage?
Denmark agrees on new groundbreaking world’s first nature and biodiversity pact
Denmark’s Green Tripartite pact, adopted by Parliament, introduces a CO2 tax on farmers starting in 2030, aims to restore nature and biodiversity, and sets ambitious environmental goals by 2045.
China shows off ocean protection progress
China’s marine progress includes ecological redlines, nature reserves, rare species recovery, green and low-carbon development, and international cooperation while addressing problematic species naming issues.
Marine ‘biomimetics’ could be blue economy’s next big hit
Designing products that mimic nature’s forms, from whale flippers to sea worms, could contribute billions to the sustainable blue economy, say researchers.
Analysis: New pipelines will fragment Assam’s protected forests, say environmentalists
Nearly 3,000 trees are to be felled during the construction of oil and gas pipelines in northeast India, in protected areas that are home to endangered species such as the western hoolock gibbon and white-winged duck.
Analysis: How Costa Rica reversed deforestation and raised millions for conservation
The Central American nation has secured more than US$135 million in finance for nature in recent years, another leaf in its conservation success story.
The fight to protect critically endangered Hawksbill turtles
Hawksbill Caribbean Spiced Rum donates 10% of profits to Hawksbill turtle conservation, addressing critical endangerment causes and promoting sustainability.
Analysis: Ocean mining – a dangerous proposition for people and planet
A moratorium would give us the opportunity to collect the data we need to determine whether seabed mining can be authorised without causing irreversible harm.
As the peak gardening season approaches there is a renewed call to ban peat sales
The Wildlife Trust increases the pressure on the UK government to ban peat sales.
A greener life, a greener world 