From BBC Published12 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Getty Images By Helen BriggsEnvironment correspondent Everyone will live within 15 minutes’ walk of a green space or water under new government plans to restore nature. Habitat for wildlife…

From BBC Published18 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Getty Images By Jonah FisherBBC Environment Correspondent The transition to a greener economy is worth £71bn and has brought jobs and investment to parts of the UK experiencing industrial…

From BBC Published39 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharing Image source, Getty Images By Madeline HalpertBBC News, New York Joel Jackson, the president of the Organized Village of Kake, a tribal community, has lived within the Tongass National Forest in…

Roads and highways wind through forests worldwide, forming an expanding network that connects humans but can hurt animals. Animals are hesitant to cross roads, and for those that move only through the treetops, such as arboreal mammals, a road can…

At the start of last month’s UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, UN Environmental Programme Executive Director, Inger Andersen, made the memorable statement, “we are at war with nature” and must “make peace.” As Ukrainian ecologists now in Kyiv doing…

It’s hard to know exactly what’s happening to the environment in Nicaragua. Data on everything from mining to deforestation to biodiversity loss is nearly impossible to get from the government. Hundreds of journalists and environmental defenders have been arrested or…

JAKARTA — The Indonesian government is designing a new scheme to measure the long-term benefits provided by the country’s marine and coastal ecosystems. The mechanism, known as ocean accounting and in development since 2021, is part of the Indonesian Ministry…

EAST TANJUNG JABUNG, Indonesia — Ambo Angke trudged through the cemetery knowing he had been right to worry. A high tide surge had inundated the resting place here on the eastern coast of Sumatra after developers ripped out the trees…