// Hidden Stories SeriesBrazil is backNovember 28, 2022In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, Indigenous leaders are engaged in a crucial battle—not only for the preservation of their ancestral lands but also for the stability of the global climate.Punctuated by chants of “olé, olé, olé, ola, Lula, Lula”, Lula’s speech brought a much-needed feeling of hope to the frequently criticised …
// Hidden Stories SeriesA shift in the wind: Investment in renewables is on the upNovember 16, 2022In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, Indigenous leaders are engaged in a crucial battle—not only for the preservation of their ancestral lands but also for the stability of the global climate.For years, capital investments in oil and gas have oustripped their renewable counterparts. …
// Hidden Stories SeriesA review of ELMS could spell disaster for the British environmentOctober 20, 2022In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, Indigenous leaders are engaged in a crucial battle—not only for the preservation of their ancestral lands but also for the stability of the global climate.Beef, dairy, and raising other livestock have all been touted as emission-heavy practices — …
// Hidden Stories SeriesFrom Code Red to Code Crimson: How climate change is affecting our biodiversity at exponential ratesOctober 14, 2022If we were in code red before, we’re now in code crimson.The current climate and nature crisis is not only an environmental issue, but an economic, development, security, social, moral and ethical issue too. Our world’s most vulnerable people, places and wildlife …
// Hidden Stories SeriesRethinking endless growth with Doughnut EconomicsSeptember 28, 2022It’s 2012, and University of Oxford economics professor Kate Raworth sits at her desk.She’s re-assessing her views on the world humanity aspires to live in to help shape a better paper. Putting pen to paper, she goes through countless iterations until… finally… she lands on something that looks both novel …
// Hidden Stories SeriesThe significance of Denmark breaking ranks to provide climate funding for developing nationsSeptember 26, 2022In the heart of the Amazon rainforest, Indigenous leaders are engaged in a crucial battle—not only for the preservation of their ancestral lands but also for the stability of the global climate.Vague “promises” have been made countless times (the last back at COP26), …
// Hidden Stories SeriesWe’re entering the next level of the fossil fuel crisis, and we don’t even realiseSeptember 26, 2022We’re in a fossil fuel crisis but we can’t solve it with more fossil fuels.BBC News recently proposed some ideas to tackle Britain’s energy bill crisis — from capping energy profits, to selling clean energy at a discount. And I’m pretty …
// Hidden Stories SeriesTipping points are about to tipSeptember 20, 2022Failure to limit global warming to the targets set by international accords will most likely set off several climate “tipping points,” a team of scientists said on Thursday.With irreversible effects including the collapse of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets, abrupt thawing of Arctic permafrost and the death of …
// Hidden Stories SeriesBoreal Forest: From carbon sink to sourceSeptember 20, 2022If you asked someone 10 years ago how they could help the environment, they’d have said to recycle.I can’t tell you how many poems, drawings and art competitions we had at school about the importance of separating plastic, garden and general waste. It was a lot. Today however, planting …
// Hidden Stories SeriesWet bulb temperatures are risingSeptember 14, 2022Between March and May this year, India alongside countries including the UK, Portugal, and France, endured repeated heatwaves that exposed more than a billion people to dangerously hot conditions.India broke several temperature records, recording its hottest March in more than a century and a new high of more than 49C in …