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Europe Decoded

Climate activists hope stronger EU laws will protect forests

Logging and toxic border policies are putting pressure on Europe’s forests.

Climate

Which country has just set the world's most ambitious climate target?

The Nordic country will need to reverse the loss of its forests, which turned from net climate sinks to emitters last year.

Europe News

Poles told to gather firewood amid soaring energy prices

The government said it was taking steps to make it easier for people to collect firewood in an effort to ease the pressure created by sky-rocketing energy bills and shortages of coal.

World News

Illegal logging threatens Romania's unique virgin forests

Romania is home to Europe's richest forests in terms of biodiversity. But every day they're being diminished - by illegal logging. #GreenWeek

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Smart Regions

Reviving the timber industry in the French Alps

In partnership with the European Commission

With its spruce, larch and cedar, the Alps region is one of the most wooded in France. Fourteen years ago, the local timber sector decided to pull together and face up to more competitive offers from forests in Germany and Austria, the Nordics and Eastern Europe. A new label was born.

Smart Regions

Beech Power: the project protecting Europe's native forests

In partnership with the European Commission

Europe’s ancient Beech forests are one of the best natural resources we have when it comes to tackling climate change, but they also face a combination of threats. An EU project has made it a priority to preserve what's left. We’ll be seeing what’s being done to preserve these precious ecosystems?

Georgia

Conservationists rush to save Georgia’s colchis boxwood trees from extinction

Colchis boxwood trees, native to forests in the Caucasus region are under threat. Scientists in Georgia are now trying to protect young boxwood trees in a bid to preserve the plant for generations to come.

Living

Sweden’s timber city erects skyscraper made entirely from wood

The Sara Cultural Centre is designed to ‘communicate’ with the buildings around it.

Green News

Thousands protest against Bolsonaro's anti-environment bills in Brazil

"Brazil is at a crossroads. Amazon deforestation is out of control, violence against Indigenous people has increased."

Nature

EU's mega-rich found to be fuelling the illegal 'blood timber' trade

EU regulators are supposed to prevent the import of illegal timber into the EU. But traders are still finding ways to get round the rules.

Nature

Cutting down trees is boosting biodiversity in this Finnish forest

The tree stumps they leave behind are providing a unique habitat for birds and insects.

Nature

Why is no one talking about the surge in forest growth in Europe?

Growth of European woodland seems to be an exception to the ongoing international deforestation crisis, but political challenges related to global forestry are greater than tree planting.

Green News

Scientists discover unique greenhouse gas effect in the Congo Basin

The Congo Basin is home to one of the world’s largest rainforests, so why do we know so little about it?

Nature

Karachi’s urban forest is bringing nature to the heart of the city

Six years ago this was an abandoned waste land, now it's a nature filled forest in the middle of Pakistan's largest city.

Eco-Innovation

Scientists can now map carbon to the scale of tennis courts from space

The new Chloris map reveals that southern European countries are the ‘sleeping giants’ of carbon sinks.

Climate

Seven times polluters lost and the environment won in 2021

From COP26 to Cambo, forests to the sea floor, we look back at some of campaigners' brightest victories over the last 12 months.

Nature

Free trees are being handed out to the entire population in Wales

People who cannot take part in the scheme can choose for a free tree to be planted on their behalf.

Nature

How a map of underground mushrooms can help us fight climate change

Is underground climate science the next frontier? The founders of a new project to map and protect Earth's fungal networks think so.

Nature

Back from the brink: Bison return to Romania after 200-year absence

Rescued from extinction, wild bison have made themselves at home in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains

Sci-Tech

Enzymes and wood biomolecules, a winning combo for sustainable packaging

Discover the company that won the 2021 Innovation Radar Prize by using a combination of enzymes and biomolecules from wood to create the biodegradable packaging of tomorrow.