Since taking office, US President Donald Trump has appointed numerous fossil fuel proponents as government officials, and his proposed federal budget seeks to slash funding to climate research. The president also recently signed an executive order that seeks to undermine Obama-era climate change policies. DW talks to author and activist Bill McKibben for his take.

In New Zealand, a couple of activists have started a global tree-planting initiative called "Trump Forest." DW talks to Adrien Taylor and Dan Price to find out why they are planting trees in the name of Donald Trump.

For thrill-seeking tourists the adrenaline rush of coming face-to-face with the notorious great white shark is top of their travel agenda. But cage diving tour operators in South Africa are worried. The local white shark population is becoming so scarce on the west coast, scientists fear the apex hunters may be dying out.

South Africa is a popular destination for tourists hoping to experience animals out in nature. But over the last decade, a new industry has emerged which is calling the very meaning of the word “nature” into question. Individual game farmers are breeding all sorts of colorful versions of animals - from snow white springbok to golden wildebeest – on to other breeders and trophy hunters.

Farmers depend on it, environmentalists hate it and most people are confused about it: glyphosate, the world's most widely-used weed killer and a billion-dollar business. In a new report, the European Chemicals Agency said that glyphosate does not cause cancer. But how did ECHA arrive at these findings, can they be trusted, and what about the other risks environmentalists have been warning about?

Vast swathes of territory in Cameroon are used to farm eucalyptus trees - either for timber or for electricity poles. Many people have come to rely on farming the trees as their primary source of income. But eucalyptus needs large amounts of water, and the result was a water crisis and drops in crop yields. A local initiative is now hoping to replace eucalyptus trees with native ones.

Peru has been hit by devastating floods after rivers along the Peruvian coast burst their banks as a result of unseasonal heavy rains. Dozens of lives have been lost, and thousands more thrown into chaos as homes are cut off or washed away, and power supplies fail. In an interview, Mojib Latif, professor of oceanology and climate dynamics, discusses whether the floods were caused by climte change.

In Slovakia's Carpathian Mountains, wolves, bears and even the shy lynx have long been a feature of mountain life. But their 'dangerous' reputation has left these species maligned and under threat. Now, conservationists are trying to track them in the hope of preserving their numbers.

Professor Hans Joachim calls himself a "desperate optimist" when it comes saving the world from catastrophic climate change. The physicist and founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has not only helped design a "carbon road map" for how society can wean itself off fossil fuels, he’s also calculated what our chances are of actually achieving this ambitious goal.

The ancient Greeks and Romans used snails for beauty treatments. Now 2,000 years on, snail farming is flourishing in Italy thanks to a new craze for slime-based skincare and health products. But just how are they extracting the slime?