News from the Earth

The food we eat is a huge indicator of our health. Eating cleanly and simply, exposing your body to as few toxic pollutants as possible, will benefit your wellbeing.

Globally, the EU is responsible for more than 10% of the destruction of forests through the consumption of products such as meat, dairy products, soya for animal feed, palm oil, coffee and cocoa. The European Union has therefore decided to open a public consultation procedure on the theme of forest protection: "Deforestation and forest degradation - reducing the impact of products placed on the EU market".

Diet is a way to relate to food, your body and the environment. Variety, balance and moderation: we eat too much! We choose foods of low quality an...

Building the celebration of World Animal Day unites the animal welfare movement, mobilising it into a global force to make the world a better place for all animals. 

"We are in a state of planetary emergency," the 65 leaders, who include German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...

Earth's living systems as a whole are being compromised. And the more humanity exploits nature in unsustainable ways and undermines its contributions to people, the more we undermine our own wellbeing, security and prosperity.

The European Commission has presented the Biodiversity Plan, a document that is part of the Green New Deal, the European Green Pact that aims to make Europe the first CO2-neutral continent by 2050. The new strategy proposes ambitious actions and commitments to halt the loss of biodiversity in Europe and the world and turn our food systems into global reference standards.

Limiting global warming to 1.5℃ requires cutting global emissions by 7.6% each year this decade. This does sound difficult, but there are reasons f...

A herdsman in the Chinese autonomous region of Inner Mongolia was diagnosed with the bubonic plague. Mongolian health authorities are also investig...

20 May is World Bee Day, established by the United Nations on 20 December 2017 and celebrated for the first time on 20 May 2018.  Without bees the ...

Try to think about the consequences of what we do every day: what we eat, what we buy, where the products come from. And try to learn something new...

For forests, it really does help to be young. British scientists who have identified the vital factor that shows what makes a forest a good carbon ...