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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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PlantationThe FAO's State of the World's Forests report warns of a narrowing window to restore forests essential for food security and climate resilience, with 489m hectares cleared since 1990.
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PlantationMore than 3,000 volunteers launched a five-year Balamban drive on 19 September to grow one million trees across 1,200 hectares — a CarbonPH × GForest partnership built to last far beyond a single planting day.
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Bangladesh will press developed countries at COP31 in Antalya to provide climate finance as grants rather than loans, State Minister Shama Obaed Islam said at a Dhaka briefing on 2 November.
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Green JournalismUN-OHRLLS has opened a fully funded journalism fellowship for reporters from 44 least developed countries to cover the Doha Programme of Action Midterm Review in Doha on 25-27 March 2027. Applications close 30 November 2026; ten fellows will be selected.
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Green JournalismCanada and United Nations University experts brief journalists on 2 November 2026, a week before COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye.
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Green JournalismStephanie Wallcraft has won the 2026 AJAC Environmental Journalism Award for her article on Natural Resources Canada's Fuel Consumption Guide, with Nadine Filion as runner-up.
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Green JournalismGrist has launched Distorted, a months-long reporting series on how misinformation spreads before, during and after extreme weather, and how trusted journalism can help communities find the truth.
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Green JournalismThe UN's first comprehensive restoration assessment, published on 29 October 2026, gives climate journalists a verifiable global scorecard: 252 million hectares under restoration across 149 countries, but finance must more than quadruple to meet 2030 targets.
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Green JournalismToxic Ground, a cross-border investigation into hidden landfill sites across Europe, has been shortlisted in the Environment and Energy category of the British Journalism Awards 2026.
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Green JournalismTürkiye's communications chief Burhanettin Duran urges solutions-focused climate reporting ahead of COP31 in Antalya, warning against 'green fatigue', as 1,400 of about 3,000 press accreditations are completed.
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Green JournalismThe Society of Environmental Journalists has opened book entries for its 25th annual awards for reporting on the environment. Books published in 2025 or 2026 are eligible, with the standard deadline on 21 December 2026.
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