The decline of nature — its animal, plants, oceans, forests and soils — is a climate-change problem. Every day, research reveals how we rely on nature for not only combatting the climate crisis but adapting to its relentless impacts. From trees in urban areas to large intact expanses of the tropical rainforests, nature delivers much-needed environmental benefits to all of us. Read on to better understand how we can unlock the power of nature to combat climate change.
New data suggests forests help keep the Earth at least half of a degree cooler, protecting us from the effects of climate crisis The world’s forests play a far greater and more complex role in tackling climate crisis than previously thought, due to their physical effects on global and local …
Overhunting affects seed dispersal and thus survival of hardwood trees, resulting in drastic reduction in Earth’s natural carbon storage, study finds Large fruit-eating monkeys and birds in tropical forests have been revealed as surprising climate change champions, whose loss to over-hunting is …
It's impossible to deny — humans are destroying the natural environment at an unprecedented and alarming rate. According to a new report out Tuesday, …
How nature is key to achieving a 1.5˚C world Human activity has increased the release of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere GHGs are the …
GARSTANG, England — Moor, bog, fen, mire, flush, swamp, slough. Peatlands have gotten a bum rap. They’re inhospitable, useless. Too wet to plow, too dry to fish, the old farmers say. Scorned as anaerobic wastelands, dissed in the popular imagination, imagined as the eerie Dead Marshes in “The Lord …
It seems that barely a month goes by without a new study warning us that freak weather events are set to become the “new normal”. In February, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned in a new report that the world is already facing “unavoidable climate hazards” over the next two …
Biodiversity is, in a nutshell, all life on Earth. It’s all the animal and plant species, how they coexist within our ecosystems, and the benefits we …
WWF works to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and wildlife, collaborating with partners from local to global levels in …
Rebecca Shaw is the WWF's chief scientist and senior vice president for global science. She was also a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report focused on impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability.
Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President, Global Science Dr. Rebecca Shaw is Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President at WWF. She works with experts …
