Despite tensions last year over the role of the extractive industry in Amazon, Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Brazilian President Lula are meeting again to attempt to advance plans for Amazon conservation.

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An inspiring story: patient work delivered a community-owned, equitable REDD+ project that has alleviated poverty and protected a uniquely biodiverse forest. This is the right way to do it. For profit companies in the voluntary carbon market largely *don't* operate like this.

'no birdsong, no water in the creek, no beating wings' - beautiful piece from Phoebe Weston on how silence fell in a haven for nature. this story is playing out in so many places - start of a new series we're running on the world's radically changing soundscapes theguardian.com/environment/20…

A sad story about how one man - who has been monitoring a population of marsh tits for 22 generations - is watching them go extinct Richard Broughton 🇺🇦

Like all our soundscape pieces this week, it points to a much bigger story happening all over our planet theguardian.com/environment/20…

World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts

Rewilding is not just for the joy of it. The point is to save everything that we have and everything that we love.

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The massive rain bomb in #Dubai - 6”- almost 2 years of rain in a day, was due to a very blocked pattern and slow moving southern jet stream with embedded disturbances. That’s the primary cause. Could cloud “seeding” have enhanced it? Maybe, but something else was going on… 1/

I'm giving a talk about the wild life of Roger Deakin to the brilliant Wensum Valley Birdwatching Society in Lenwade, Norfolk, this Thursday, 7.30pm. Event open to all and tickets are £3 – now that's a proper price, how things used to be! wvbs.co.uk

Anger as 'great browning' spreads along 1,000km of West Aust. coast

“It’s really tragic. The southwest of the state has always been a sanctuary – it’s the place you go to when it’s too bloody hot everywhere else. It’s just devastating…”

Piers Verstegen au.news.yahoo.com/anger-as-great…

From me - Global heating pushes coral reefs towards fourth and worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record theguardian.com/environment/20…

Podcast - I visit Monks Wood w/ Richard Broughton 🇺🇦 to learn about a disappearing population of marsh tits.

It's a small story of loss that is being repeated around the world Madeleine Finlay Ellie Bury theguardian.com/science/audio/…

Sounds of the natural world are rapidly falling silent and will become “acoustic fossils” without urgent action, experts warn theguardian.com/environment/20…

As natural sounds disappeared over the past 30 years, one man was listening and recording it all.

This is the story of a silent spring in one Californian park & how we got there theguardian.com/environment/20…

Where is the World Bank's climate finance going in Senegal?

Refurbishment of a luxury resort, majority-owned by the Qatari government ✅

A fishing village just down the coast, whose beach is dissapearing❌

✍️: Jack Thompson Matteo Civillini

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Important story - obtained via FOI request by Josh Gabbatiss - showing how the UK govt is 'double-counting' its climate-finance spending in an attempt to meet its Paris Agreement pledge.

Revelation has been covered by Guardian's Helena Horton

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UK Invertebrate of the Year 2024. We have a winner! Thank you The Guardian Buglife Chris Packham and the THOUSANDS of other people who took part and spread the invertebrate love. Here's to govt and everyone taking more action to help them. theguardian.com/environment/20…