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Expect more extremes and a range of ‘surprises’ to exacerbate the climate emergency.
Climate change promotes ideal conditions for catastrophic fires, but the most drastic changes can still be avoided.
Three tips from climate communication research on how to talk about climate change during extreme weather events.
An argument over London’s ultra low emissions zone threatens to engulf UK politics.
A new climate adaptation plan leaves experts underwhelmed.
We studied 55,000 people’s diets and linked them to data on environmental impacts of food.
Air con uses lots of energy – try these things first.
Internal combustion engine cars still dominate global sales – it could be to do with the emotive influence they hold over drivers.
In California, surfers say an otter is hassling them and stealing their surfboards. But does she really deserve recapture and life in captivity?
Why the UK still loses 3 billion litres of water a day through leaks.
I have spent five years tracking down more than 10,000 accounts of wildlife by naturalists, travellers, historians and even poets, all written between 1529 and 1772
Rising temperatures threaten the UK, Switzerland and Norway with more uncomfortably hot days – new research.
Europe is gripped by a heatwave called Cerberus - it may be a sign of things to come.
Time is, after all, at the heart of climate narratives.
Most of the males in a Puerto Rican monkey colony engaged in homosexual activity, a new study reveals.
Their drawings did not reflect the make up of the natural world.
New research shows European lobsters are using the deposits of rocks and boulders at the base of wind turbines as shelter.
For now, phosphate rock mining is dominated by China and Morocco.
Only fragments of Britain’s “temperate rainforest” remain – here’s some tips to help you identify one when you come across it.
The Pacific Ocean is entering the hot phase of its temperature cycle, an event that will turbo-charge global warming.
It appears to be widespread among all sorts of different birds.
Some of the world’s most threatened birds are exposed to plastic pollution – even far out to sea.
Variations in the thickness of tectonic plates may explain why Britain experiences many more earthquakes than neighbouring Ireland.
Farms have become less friendly for our insect friends – this must be reversed if we want food to eat.