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Demand for the Chinese traditional medicine"ejiao" has greatly depleted donkey populations in China and pushed buyers to source skins abroad.

Illegal donkey skin is being sold alongside human hair on social media

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Over 50% of posts from climate change deniers not labelled on Facebook

Across various online platforms, cheetah cubs are being sold as pets.

Is social media really the ‘new eBay’ for endangered cheetahs?

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Huge Facebook data centre could make Netherlands miss climate goals

The spread of climate misinformation online is getting more sophisticated.

Climate misinformation could ‘undermine’ COP26 progress, say experts

'Climate lockdown' has spiked in online posts over the last several months.

Climate sceptics are using COVID-19 trauma against us, says new report

Facebook sources power from the Bjerkreim wind farm in Norway

Facebook global operations are now supported by 100% renewable energy

15/04/2021

Social media users are trying to claim that the snow is not real.

Conspiracy theorists are setting snow on fire ‘to prove it’s not real’

24/02/2021

Video calls use more energy and so have a larger carbon , land and water footprint.

Turning off your camera in video calls could help cut carbon emissions

18/01/2021

Facebook's data centre in Odense, Denmark.

Facebook data centre donates excess heat to warm 7,000 Danish homes

09/07/2020

The internet has changed the way we protest forever.

How ‘clicktivism’ has changed the way we protest forever

18/06/2020