Iran's IRGC closed the Strait of Hormuz to international shipping on February 28, threatening supplies of around 20% of the world's daily oil as US and Israeli strikes continued across the country and retaliatory Iranian missiles hit Gulf states.

The United States has tightened the sanctions noose around Iran’s petroleum industry by blacklisting 12 tankers that enable what Washington calls Tehran’s “illegal” oil sales, as part of its ongoing maximum pressure campaign.

In the past, forests around the world were cut down on a massive scale. We lost some of the world’s richest ecosystems.