Boundary Dam coal-fired power station, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Dave Reede/All Canada Photos/Alamy Stock Photo
Listen to the second episode of a new series from The Anthill Podcast ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
Chattaphan Sakulthong / shutterstock
Foreign trade outsources both emissions and environmental hazards.
Amnat30/Shutterstock
We analysed the legal systems regulating the wildlife trade in China. Here’s what we found.
Alejandro Cuevas/Pixabay
The world is a much better place for the extra carbon being absorbed by forests, but it can never entirely offset emissions.
Renewable energy is a fast-growing industry.
Oimheidi/Pixabay
Problems with affordable, accessible energy could be mitigated by making more energy providers publicly owned.
Covering roofs with solar panels could significantly contribute to decarbonising global energy systems.
MaddyBris/Pixabay
India and China are the cheapest places to install rooftop solar, while the US, Japan and the UK are the most expensive.
Huge amounts of revealing data can be collected from sensors attached to trees.
Gennaro_Leonardi/Pixabay
Hooking trees up to internet-connected sensors provides a new way to study how they interact with the environment - and how the public interacts with their tweets.
A Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx ) in a woodland in the Czech Republic.
Lubomir Novak/Shutterstock
A new study suggests lynxes were in Britain as recently as the 18th century.
A factory in Qindao, Shangdong making coal briquettes.
EPA
Xi Jinping has been talking tough on decarbonising China, but blinked after an energy crisis threatened to derail the world economy.
Courtship behaviour of a male and female hippopotamus in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, showing the larger head and tusk sizes of the adult male on left.
Graeme Shannon
Data collected from thousands of hippos helped show that while males are only slightly bigger than females, they have much larger tusks.
Around 40% of the world’s birds migrate.
Kranich17/Pixabay
Some bird species travel thousands of miles every year as part of their annual migratory journeys.
DOERS/Shutterstock
But the national goal of cutting meat intake by 30% over the next ten years is likely to be missed.
Mangrove reforestation project in Belo-sur-Mer, southwestern Madagascar.
Author
Conservation must be carried out by local communities to be most effective, new research shows.
Syukuro Manabe and his colleague Joseph Smagorinsky in 1972.
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Labor / EPA
A 1967 study by Nobel-winner Syukuro Manabe changed climate science forever
Working from home or the office? Hybrid working means splitting your time between both.
Piscine26/Shutterstock
The environmental benefits of less commuting and fewer in-person events could be lost.
Pyty/Shutterstock
The UK government sees a reliable and low-carbon solution to future energy crises in nuclear power.
Vincenzo Izzo/Alamy Stock Photo
Rich countries have promised to compensate poor ones for the impacts of climate change.
Climate finance: where does the money go?
CalypsoArt/Shutterstock
This is a transcript of part 1 of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, a series from The Anthill podcast.
Rafapress/Shutterstock
Countries are expected to commit to more ambitious targets for 2030, but how they will achieve them is still up for debate.
EPA/Divyakant Solanki
Listen to the first episode of a new series from The Anthill Podcast ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
Views of the Yorkshire Dales seem idyllic but farmers are dealing with economic and environmental problems.
albinoni/Shutterstock
British countryside management needs a new co-ordinated approach, a researcher argues.
metamorworks / shutterstock
Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann have won the Nobel prize in physics for their climate modelling research.
Increasing numbers of fish farms are receiving sustainability certifications.
Wikimedia Commons
Ecolabelled seafood fetches higher prices in supermarkets, giving retailers and producers the incentive to up their sustainability game.
A plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae ) emerges from its burrow.
John Holmes/Alamy Stock Photo
The electric Pokemon’s real-life muse is charged with degrading the vast meadows of the Tibetan Plateau.
Online debates over the environmental impact of eating meat are getting heated.
Kaboompics/Pixabay
Diet - specifically veganism - and its impact on identity is becoming the focus of increasingly heated online discussions around climate change.