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11.02.202611.02.2026 Climate change could halve areas suitable for cattle, sheep and goat farming by 2100 A new study conducted at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) shows that grassland-based [...]
31.01.202631.01.2026 Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity and climate resilience under pressure Climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss are promoting increasingly uniform forests, where fast-growing tree species displace [...]
31.01.202631.01.2026 UNEP’s 2025 Champions of the Earth award recognizes five climate trailblazers As the world moves to slow climate change and create a more sustainable future, the UN [...]
29.01.202629.01.2026 Forest soils increasingly extract methane from atmosphere Forest soils have an important role in protecting our climate: they remove large quantities of methane [...]
28.01.202628.01.2026 UNU-INWEH report on ‘Global Water Bankruptcy’ The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has released a new flagship [...]
17.01.202617.01.2026 Europe’s crop droughts to get worse even as rain increases Europe and western North America will experience more frequent and severe crop droughts as the planet [...]
17.01.202617.01.2026 Forests under climate stress – Why trees are growing less despite an early start Climate change is causing trees to sprout earlier in spring. Nevertheless, some tree species are growing [...]
15.01.202615.01.2026 Climate change presses on Devastating wildfires and intense thunderstorms exacerbate losses for insurers Natural disaster figures for 2025 Costliest claims [...]
14.01.2026 Microplastics detected in rural woodland Air-polluting microplastics have been found in rural areas in greater quantities than in cities, researchers say. [...]
13.01.2026 Climate Variability Emerges as Both Risk and Opportunity for the Global Energy Transition WMO–IRENA 2024 Year in Review highlights growing impacts of climate extremes on clean power systems. Climate [...]