Record number of fires in Brazilian rainforest
Fires in the Amazon have risen 83% amid growing deforestation, Brazil's space research agency says.
Fires in the Amazon have risen 83% amid growing deforestation, Brazil's space research agency says.
Data from federal researchers confirmed that July was the hottest month on record, edging out the previous record-holder, July 2016.
A new study found that it's possible to satisfy our nutritional needs without eating meat – and help the environment at the same time.
Last year, the IPCC warned of an imminent climate crisis. This year, it makes a plea to save forests before time runs out.
A major report says the West's high consumption of meat is fuelling global warming.
Food will become scarcer, grocery prices will spike and crops will lose their nutritional value due to the climate crisis, according to a major report on land use from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released Thursday.
Land is already under growing human pressure and climate change is adding to these pressures. At the same time, keeping global warming to well below 2ºC can be achieved only by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors including land and food, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its latest report.