Karen McVeigh

The Guardian

‘I see them like my own children’: reforesting Ethiopia with 50bn trees, one step at a time

By: Karen McVeigh

After losing much of its forests in recent decades, ordinary citizens have led the way in planting saplings across the country as part of the government’s Green Legacy Initiative

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‘I see them like my own children': reforesting Ethiopia with 50bn trees, one step at a time

By: Amanuel Gebremedhin, Karen McVeigh

When Halima Kedir first began planting trees, she was met with scepticism and even mockery. “My neighbours discouraged me,” she recalls, sitting on

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Meet Barbie Pig: new documentary reveals the wonders of life on the Pacific seabed

By: Karen McVeigh

A magical film that explores the wonders of the deep sea through the eyes of a team of scientists and an underwater robot called Isis will be shown in selected cinemas across the UK next month.

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Britain to join the EU’s new global ocean monitoring system

By: Karen McVeigh

Cooperation on OceanEye, which will help to predict extreme weather and climate events, comes amid government attempts to move closer to Brussels

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UK to join EU ocean science scheme aimed at predicting extreme weather

By: Karen McVeigh

Britain is to join a major new ocean science programme, led by the EU, to better forecast extreme weather and climate events, it will announce today in New York.

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Fifty billion trees by 2030: How Ethiopia is recruiting citizens across the country to plant, plant, plant

By: Karen McVeigh, Amanuel Gebremedhin

When Halima Kedir first began planting trees, she was met with scepticism and even mockery.

The Guardian

‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles

By: Karen McVeigh

Fish and shellfish populations were falling rapidly as scallop dredgers devastated the seabed, but local activists and small-scale fishers battled hard to protect their coastline

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‘Beyond priceless': how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland's Summer Isles

By: Karen McVeigh

Fish and shellfish populations were falling rapidly as scallop dredgers devastated the seabed, but local activists and small-scale fishers battled hard to protect their coastline

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Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian town as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals

By: Karen McVeigh

Warning for other Arctic communities as residents told not to use water in Longyearbyen in Svalbard, one of the fastest-warming places in the world

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This Norwegian village is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth. How can its people save it?

By: Karen McVeigh

On a rugged mountain plateau of snow-dusted rocks, in the remote archipelago of Svalbard, a glaciologist, Andy Hodson, points out the “ears” of