Sir David Attenborough has told how he leapt from his chair and punched the air in delight after climate change-denier Donald Trump lost the US Presidential election.
The 94-year-old naturalist says hearing Joe Biden immediately vow to sign America back up to the international agreement to limit global warming left him feeling hugely heartened.
Sir David says: “America is the most powerful country in the world, economically, and has huge influence on what happens. "That someone should be coming into power who recognises the importance of the ecological problems that face us – whose first statement after it became clear he was going to become the President Elect was to reinstate America’s backing of the Paris agreement...