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PlantationYELLOWKNIFE, Canada — The Northwest Territories has completed one of the largest tree planting projects in its history, restoring wildfire-damaged forests near Sambaa Deh Falls with more than 3.3 million native trees and shrubs. The territorial government announced the milestone this week. The work was carried out under Canada's 2 Billion Trees Program as part
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PlantationKenya marked National Mazingira Day on October 10 with a week-long nationwide campaign targeting 17.24 million trees, part of the country's 15 billion tree ambition by 2032.
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PlantationThe Arbor Day Foundation has planted almost 7 million trees across six hurricane-affected US states, passing two-thirds of its 10-million-tree pledge.
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PlantationNAIROBI — Kenya has launched a nationwide drive to plant 17.24 million trees during this year's National Mazingira Week, which runs from 5 to 10 October and culminates in National Mazingira Day on Saturday, 10 October. The campaign is one of the largest tree-planting mobilisations in Kenyan history and a major milestone in the country's
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PlantationIreland has committed €1.5 million to rehabilitate 50 hectares of mangrove forests and 20 hectares of coastal coconut plantations in south-east Liberia, benefiting around 3,500 people over three years.
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PlantationDutse, Nigeria — Nigeria's National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) has raised more than 500,000 Great Green Wall seedlings for planting across Jigawa State, stepping up its campaign to hold back the advancing Sahara and restore degraded land in the country's northern frontline states. The agency's Director-General, Saleh Abubakar, announced the milestone during
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PlantationAllcargo Group is planting 300,000 fruit saplings across 81 Maharashtra villages in FY27 — a plantation drive that restores green cover while giving 5,000 farming families a lasting income, continuing the Maitree programme running since 2014.
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PlantationExplainer: trees on city streets can cut air temperatures by up to 4°C and one mature tree intercepts 15,000 litres of rainwater a year — the verified science behind plantation drives from FIFA's million-tree programme to England's new 500,000-tree fund.
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PlantationOgun State in Nigeria has called on plank sellers and woodworkers to join tree-planting efforts, disclosing that about five million trees have been planted and that the state's nine forest reserves are now fully functional.
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PlantationThe UK government will invest £53 million to plant up to 500,000 trees outside woodlands between 2027 and 2030, Environment Secretary Angela Eagle announced — part of a £79 million nature package.
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PlantationSouth Africa has planted 7,134,711 trees since April 2026 under the Presidential One Billion Trees Programme, with the Western Cape leading all provinces.
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PlantationThe UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration targets at least one billion hectares by 2030. The Ecosystem Restoration Hub offers three ways in: as a supporter, an implementer, or a leading partner.
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The Ocean Cleanup will make Australia and Asia-Pacific its primary focus, directing two-thirds of its effort to Southeast Asia — source of 79% of ocean plastic reaching Australia — while urging 'action and cash' ahead of COP31.
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ClimateGreen JournalismCANADA. The Equality Fund has opened applications for its inaugural Journalism Fellowship, a new opportunity designed to support working journalists in Global South countries who report on local solutions to global crises — including the climate crisis — through a gender lens. The fellowship, launched in partnership with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and
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Green JournalismThe Solutions Journalism Network and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have opened applications for the SJN/MIT Climate Journalism Fellowship 2027, an eight-month programme that will give ten local and regional U.S. journalists a $7,500 stipend each to report on climate solutions in their own communities. Applications close at midnight on 26 October 2026. What the
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Green JournalismAwareness article: Climate reporting is one of the most dangerous beats in modern journalism. UNESCO data shows that environmental journalists are attacked, threatened and in some cases killed for their work — and that protecting the press is a prerequisite for protecting the planet. Journalists who investigate illegal logging, poaching, pollution and the climate crisis
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Green JournalismWASHINGTON – The Washington Post’s sweeping investigation into the world’s rising flood danger, Floods Above, has won the inaugural Poynter Journalism Prize for Excellence in Climate Change Reporting, a new award for scientifically grounded climate journalism announced by the Poynter Institute. The prize, sponsored by the Hennecke Family Foundation, recognizes rigorous reporting that enlightens and
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Green JournalismLECCE: Italy's Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) has named Agence France-Presse's "Future of the Planet" desk and Sky TG24 Deputy Editor-in-Chief Daniele Moretti as the winners of the 2026 Romeo Bassoli Award for scientific journalism on climate and sustainability. The prize will be presented on Thursday, 15 October, in Lecce during the Conversazioni sul
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Green JournalismThe European Parliament has shortlisted ten investigations — including probes into data centres' environmental toll and green investment funds — for the 2026 Daphne Caruana Galizia Journalism Prize. The winner is announced on 21 October in Strasbourg.
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Green JournalismWUFT's Rose Schnabel and the Miami Herald's 'Built on Sand' series share the 2026 Waldo Proffitt Award for outstanding environmental journalism, announced 2 October.
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Green JournalismA new international planetary health journalism prize is calling on journalists to report one of the least-covered intersections in climate coverage: how demographic change shapes the health of the planet — and vice versa. The Demographics & Planetary Health Story Prize 2026, hosted by Johns Hopkins University institutions, will award $500 in each of two
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