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‌‌ Forty years ago, white storks were under threat in the French region of Alsace. The huge birds, with their distinctive red streaks of beaks, were victims of habitat loss, pesticides, drought, hunting and electrocution across their migratory routes, and had nearly been relegated to emblem status on regional signs and

Over the past twelve months, courts from Indonesia to Australia have made ground-breaking rulings that blocked polluting power plants and denounced the human rights violations of the climate crisis. But this year could be even more important, with hearings and judgments across the world poised to throw light on the

On 10 August 2019, vast sections of rainforest in central Brazil were set alight as part of a coordinated action by ranchers, loggers and land-grabbers to clear illegally deforested land. The ‘Day of Fire’ sparked record blazes in the region, but it was just another example of deliberate destruction of

Loss and damage has been at the heart of much media reporting about the upcoming COP27 climate talks in Egypt in November. With flooding in Pakistan 'likely' made worse by global warming and droughts in the Northern Hemisphere exacerbated by high temperatures, the idea that climate change is