Formerly warring factions in Burundi have now planted over 150 million trees together since 2018
In 2018, Burundi launched a vast national reforestation program to boost the country’s dwindling forest cover, which will run until 2025.
In 2018, Burundi launched a vast national reforestation program to boost the country’s dwindling forest cover, which will run until 2025.
The legal changes mean that anyone harassing a woman going into an abortion clinic will be committing a crime that can be punished with up to one year in prison.
Spain bans harassment of women entering abortion clinics Read more
The government said it was addressing “historical failures” to communicate to borrowers all the benefits they were eligible for in federal student loan programs.
U.S. forgives 40,000 student loans, provides aid to 3.6 million more Read more
The global bank’s policy research team said the poverty headcount in the country has dropped from 22.5% in 2011 to 10.2% in 2019 with rural areas showing better results.
India’s extreme poverty down by 12% in last decade, according to World Bank Read more
Greta Thunberg has long argued that rich countries need to take responsibility for and reduce emissions from imported goods.
In April 2021, Japan, the world’s fifth-biggest carbon emitter raised its climate goal, pledging to trim emissions by 46 percent from 2013 levels by 2030 instead of its previous target of 26 percent.
Japan’s greenhouse gas emissions fall 5.1% in 2020/21 to record low Read more
The installation of this bifacial solar farm is part of Greece’s aim to double its installed capacity from renewables to approximately 19 gigawatts by 2030.
Greece builds Europe’s largest double-sided solar farm Read more
This is a precedent-setting case in the country’s management of forests, representing the first time an area will be declared protected at the request of the resident community.
Gabon announces immediate end to the logging of the Massaha ancestral forest Read more
The share of Scotland that is forested has increased from 6 percent a century ago to around 18 percent today.
Scotland’s forests are the largest they have been for 900 years Read more
Jackson made history as the U.S. Senate confirmed her by a vote of 53-47. President Biden nominated Jackson to take over the seat of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Ketanji Brown Jackson to become first Black woman to serve on U.S. Supreme Court Read more