Category: environmental action

June 3, 2021

U.N. Report: We Need To Restore A Billion Hectares Of Land To Avoid Ecosystem Collapse

4 Mins Read With the launch of the United Nations (UN) Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030, the UN has called on nations to meet their sustainability commitments by 2030 with the warning that collectively, at least 1 billion degraded hectares of land must be restored, the equivalent to an area around the size of China. Furhter, and to further add […]

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May 25, 2021

Q&A w/ Renowned Climate Scientist Prof. Mark Maslin On How To Save The Planet: ‘I’m Incredibly Optimistic’

15 Mins Read Mark Maslin, a Professor of Earth System Science at University College London, has made it his career to study climate change and has authored hundreds of academic papers and multiple books on the topic. But now, the renowned climate scientist has taken a rather different approach with his new book, How To Save Our Planet, […]

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April 18, 2021

Exclusive: Melati Wijsen Of Bye Bye Plastic Bags & Youthtopia ‘Systemic Change Is Key, We Need To Hold Those In Power Accountable’

12 Mins Read In 2013, when she was just twelve years old, Melati Wijsen and her sister Isabel started Bye Bye Plastic Bags, the Bali-based movement that became a global youth-driven sensation to eliminate the use of plastic bags in Bali and elsewhere. Since then, youths all over the world have been refusing single-use plastics in order to […]

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February 20, 2021

India Climate Activist Disha Ravi Arrested: ‘I Supported The Farmers Because They Are Our Future’

4 Mins Read 22-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi has recently become the face of India’s ongoing farmer protests. She had been for over three years a prominent environmental campaigner, but she’s now been arrested at her home in Bengaluru and charged with sedition and criminal conspiracy by Delhi authorities. In a defiant message, Ravi made clear that there […]

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Category: environmental action

U.N. Report: We Need To Restore A Billion Hectares Of Land To Avoid Ecosystem Collapse

Q&A w/ Renowned Climate Scientist Prof. Mark Maslin On How To Save The Planet: ‘I’m Incredibly Optimistic’

Exclusive: Melati Wijsen Of Bye Bye Plastic Bags & Youthtopia ‘Systemic Change Is Key, We Need To Hold Those In Power Accountable’

India Climate Activist Disha Ravi Arrested: ‘I Supported The Farmers Because They Are Our Future’