Climate & Environment

Wetlands are one of the UK’s most overlooked ecological superpowers, vital for biodiversity, flood resilience, water quality, carbon storage, and long-term public wellbeing.

Shade trees are a simple but powerful way to improve biodiversity, carbon storage, soil health, animal welfare, and farm resilience across the UK’s agricultural landscapes.

Creating a woodland on once overgrazed slopes near Knighton in Mid-Wales. The first woodland we're creating on land we own, biodiversity is already on the uptick.

The Tukes, landowners near Honiton, Devon, had a plan, permission, and funding to expand an established woodland, adding 2,050 more saplings. But they needed help with that final step, getting the...

As Storm Bert swept the UK, Oxford Year 5 and 6 students planted 980 saplings, creating a mini-forest and learning about tackling climate change.

AI has been everywhere since ChatGPT dropped in late 2022. Behind all that whirring and chugging is some high energy consumption.

Protect Earth's new online shop offers a simple way to make a direct difference—supporting greener spaces, improving local ecosystems, or finding meaningful gifts.

The Climate Crisis is causing all sorts of problems, with those problems expected to intensify as the heat on planet earth similarly intensifies.

Trees have long been recognised for their role in improving the climate by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Recent research, however, has unveiled an unexpected additional benefit....

With a mere 13% tree coverage, the UK is one of Europe's least densely forested countries, compared to the EU average of 38% and global average of 31%.

When Protect Earth was founded in 2020, each tree we planted was considered a success and was one more tree to mitigate changing natural conditions in the UK. Even from those early days when planting...

Mae Nannerch yn safle 27 erw mewn Ardal o Harddwch Naturiol Eithriadol (AHNE) yng Ngogledd Cymru. Mae Protect Earth wedi atgyfnerthu ein cynlluniau ar gynyddu bioamrywiaeth o fewn y safle hwn, er budd

Now celebrating their seventieth year in the UK, national parks offer substantial benefits. The approach of setting aside land to just be is a fantastic model, and what national parks have achieved fo

Soil degradation and erosion is impacting the UK. Food supply, built areas, and the natural environment are all being impacted. The impact costs billions to prevent in loss. But, there are solutions a

Cars, cars, cars! What’s the consequence of all these tonnes of steel? A complete societal transformation that has had dire consequences with history repeating itself by having more dire consequences

Goytre Wood is a 70 acre woodland Protect Earth have acquired in Powys, Wales. This is tremendously exciting for us to set out a plan bringing real, beneficial change to this woodland. In this piece,

The climate crisis is upon us. We’re told daily of this fact everywhere we look. And one solution we see to fight climate change is to plant trees. Yet, the UK government has reduced its tree planting

Eighty million Ash trees expected to die in the UK due to Ash Dieback fungus. Exploring what this disease is, where it came from, and the future for UK Ash.

All projects have at least 8 species, some have 16. Overall Protect Earth has planted 46 different species, making up 38,580 saplings between 2020-2022.

Joey from marketing agency TMD interviews Steve about his life in conservation, skills required, impact of climate change, and wildlife at Protect Earth sites.

Plant the right tree in the right place: Sessile Oak on Welsh hillsides, Beech in Cotswold valleys, Scot's Pines in the Highlands. But what about climate change?