Climate Change
Jair Bolsonaro is facing criticism over the cause of the fires and has warned foreign powers not to intervene in the crisis.
The blazes are roasting South America's biggest country just as far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is rolling back environmental and indigenous protections.
Staying in Europe is the only way we can make a serious impact on climate change and the environment, MEP Alex Phillips writes.
Wildfires in the Amazon have seen an 84% increase compared to the same period in 2018, according to Brazil's space research centre, INPE. Conservationists, scientists and indingenous groups have raised their concerns over President Jair Bolsonaro’s policies that favour development over conservation in the Amazonian basin. As the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon is vital to slowing global warming as it removes carbon from the atmosphere.
In late August 2018, a 15-year-old student made the decision to protest outside the Swedish parliament instead of attending school. Greta Thunberg drew international attention for the conviction that she could not continue to attend school while the climate was in crisis. Her actions inspired the Fridays For Future movement, where school children attend protests on Fridays instead of attending school, to bring attention to the climate change emergency. The 24 May 2019 protest drew over a million students from 130 countries onto the street to demand their respective governments make drastic change to save the planet.
A group of scientists and locals have unveiled a plaque to Iceland's first melted glacier. Okjokull was the first to lose its status as a glacier in 2014, attributed to rising global temperatures and climate change.
People making off-colour jokes about Thunberg’s attempts to save the planet have got things the wrong way round.
“You’re wishing a potentially fatal accident onto a sixteen-year-old girl, why..?”
The 16-year-old Swedish activist has set sail on the Malizia II, a high-tech, sustainable racing yacht, which will take about two weeks to reach New York. Greta Thunberg will be attending the United Nations climate summit there in late September. She will spend some time in North America, before heading to South America where she plans to attend the COP25 climate summit in Chile in December.
Beef products are to be removed from sale at Goldsmiths as part of a plan to become carbon neutral by 2025.