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Without action in the next five years, an extra 80 million tonnes of plastic may end up in the ocean by 2040.
Their underwater foundations cause different layers of the ocean to mix together.
Hedgehog numbers may be stabilising in towns and cites, helped by routes through gardens.
Three of the report’s 270 authors highlight some key findings.
The amount of microplastics in the environment is being significantly underestimated, research shows.
Remote sensing satellites provide the crucial data that helps scientists model disasters so that they can work on predicting avalanche patterns in future.
New research sheds light on why predators don’t evolve to become so aggressive that they eat all their prey – and then go extinct themselves.
Plus, a section of a rocket is about to crash on the Moon. What scientists hope to learn from it. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
From melting glaciers to mounting storms, the impacts of climate change are global – but they’re not equally shared.
Farming shellfish instead of large, predatory fish, is also better for the planet.
Decades of research shows disasters are caused human vulnerabilities rather than the climate itself.
It involves a trade-off between seafood production and seabed conservation.
The promised £39 million is not enough to ‘level up’ park provision in the UK.
Scientists have uncovered Roman farms beneath what was thought to be prehistoric forest in France.
Six things you can do to help keep you and your home safe.
Tech companies still make it difficult to get gadgets repaired.
If characters on TV consumed less, research has found it can have an impact on the environmental behaviour of audiences
No animals were more exposed to storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin.
With an antenna, a laptop and some software, you can take a picture of Earth from space.
Soot from research bases and sightseeing cruises is melting millions of tonnes of Antarctic snow every summer
Wolves killing livestock are seizing an opportunity for a meal in a landscape with little natural prey.
Research has revealed how earless moths manage to avoid bat attacks - by evolving sophisticated acoustic tricks.
The principles of the low-tech movement offer a solution to overconsumption and rising emissions.
Scientists have unimaginably more powerful supercomputers than their predecessors.