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Bangladesh's garment workers face a workplace heat crisis

Bangladesh's 4.2 million garment workers, mostly women, face dangerous heat as factory temperatures keep climbing.

Extractive industries are eroding the global goal to protect 30% of nature

More than 61 million hectares of protected land overlap with oil and gas blocks, a report finds ahead of COP17.

Verra overhauls its grievance process for carbon and biodiversity projects

Verra's new grievance process promises a clearer, faster path for communities raising concerns about carbon projects.

Gold's boom is fuelling deforestation from Ghana to the Amazon

Record gold prices are driving deforestation from Ghana's mines to the Amazon as high returns reward clearing sensitive forest.

Satellite monitoring is earning forest carbon projects a new level of trust

ESA's Biomass satellite is building a rolling 3D map of forest carbon, giving buyers and regulators new confidence in forest carbon projects.

Funding uncertainty threatens Tasmania's kelp recovery as invasive urchins spread

Short-term funding threatens Tasmania's progress rebuilding kelp forests from invasive sea urchins.

Nearly 90% of countries have set biodiversity targets, but most are off track for 2030

A UN report finds most countries have biodiversity targets but fewer than half are on track for 2030.