Environment

Swami Prem Parivartan, known as Peepal Baba, has led the planting or preservation of 26 million trees, restoring 270,000 hectares of vegetation across India.

Thousands of active fire hotspots are burning through tropical peatlands in Borneo, releasing carbon dioxide and creating the region's worst air crisis in over a decade.

Britain's forest cover is growing, but government reforestation programs face criticism for using non-native species and ecologically unsuitable trees.