Natural landscapes that have suffered from human intervention often need help coming back to life. That’s what the Dutch have discovered with the Markermeer — an enclosed portion of sea that was once a bay, and then, sealed off by a dam, was left to stagnate for half a century. That is, until they had the idea to build islands in the middle of it, inviting the reeds, birds and fish to return.

Vegetable-based alternatives to meat are gaining ever more popularity. While some researchers are growing meat cells without animals in laboratories, an Israeli startup has succeeded in developing an animal-free "steak" — using a 3D printer. As 3D printing tech becomes cheaper, this could provide a new climate- and environment-friendly alternative to meat.

Nature, it seems, has a remarkable ability to heal itself – but in bouncing back from heavy human intervention, sometimes it needs support. Rewilding landscapes in Europe often involves reintroducing keystone species that humans drove extinct decades or centuries ago. Chiara Reid was in the Netherlands, where two new yet old inhabitants are at work reshaping the landscape.

With its tremendous biodiversity and array of megafauna, Kenya is a tourism hotspot. The East African country funnels much of that tourism money back into the protection of wild animals and their environment. But the coronavirus crisis has devastated the industry. So how is the wildlife faring? Andrew Wasike reports from the Great Rift Valley west of Nairobi.

Mauritians have taken to the streets to protest against the government's handling of an oil spill off the island nation's coast. In July, a Japanese ship hit a reef about a mile offshore, spilling oil into waters that are home to sensitive species and mangroves. As international experts assess the scale of the damage, locals are asking who'll foot the bill for the cleanup.

Welcome to The Climate Wheel! In this first edition, we'll take a look at how neighboring members of the European Union — France and Germany — compare when it comes to their climate goals and policies.

France is more dependent on nuclear power than any other country in the world, but that could change. Earlier this year, the government issued a decree that includes a radical change in direction for French energy policy. As reporter John Laurenson explains, it involves major cuts to nuclear, while expanding wind and solar capacity.

Australians are experiencing climate change up close and personal. They’ve seen years of drought, record heat waves, devastating bushfires, and ocean warming that's killing the Great Barrier Reef. Yet the government there is pushing ahead with new mining projects. That's angering activists in the state of Queensland, where one of the biggest coal mines in the world is under construction.

While some communities brace for the future affects of climate change, the archipelago known as the Turtle Islands off Sierra Leone's coast is dealing with rising sea levels and disappearing land right now. People have had to relocate, which is not cheap for locals who earn just 10 cents a day.

Now a prominent activist, Vanessa Nakate began protesting against climate inaction outside Uganda's parliament in 2019. While fellow European activists were emptying schools each Friday, she had to take a different approach to educating young people in Uganda. She tells DW why she's recently been tweeting in German.