January 2026 began with water everywhere. Across southern Africa, Europe and parts of North Africa, rivers burst their banks.

Stilted homes in Andavoanemboka village, Madagascar, where female solar technicians have brought solar-powered light. © Bella Roscher / WWF-CH. In the stilted homes of Madagascar ...

A new MSCI case study in a series to be released over time on nature-related risk data, demonstrates the capabilities of newly developed, geospatially aggregated MSCI Biodiversity Risk Metrics which ...

Trapping and trading have contributed to collapse in populations across West and Central Africa The world took a major step today towards saving the threatened African Grey Parrot – one of the world’s ...

We know that plastic is devastating wildlife and plaguing our oceans, but until now we have known very little about the impact the broken plastic system is having on people. In this first-ever global ...

WWF calls for COP30 to close the gap between words and action on the climate and nature crisis “Solutions exist in every economic sector; what is missing is the will to implement them. If we seize ...

The temptation to skip to steps lower in the hierarchy that are easier or cheaper will at best provide a temporary bandaid to these complex global challenges and at worst, cannibalize efforts for ...

After decades of seemingly irreversible decline, results from the latest census conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs show that the population of critically endangered ...

More frequent and intense droughts, storms and heat waves, melting glaciers, warming oceans and rising sea levels – climate change is already causing immense harm to the natural world, putting ...

Current projected growth in plastic pollution will cause significant ecological risks, with certain pollution hotspots like the Mediterranean, the East China and Yellow Seas, and the Arctic sea ice ...

Despite a glut of commitments in recent years, finance for conserving the world’s forests for people and nature remains woefully inadequate. An estimated US$460 billion a year will be needed to ...

More than 145 million tonnes of sugar (sucrose) is produced per year in about 120 countries; open pan (artisanal) sugar production in Asia probably adds more than ten million tonnes to this total.