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“Will it become a wood again, how long will it take, which species will be in it?”
A new report calls for a greener and fairer food system in England.
I helped forecast disaster – but nothing prepared for me what happened next.
Extreme heat warnings can help change our dangerous relationship with hot weather.
Toba eruption caused temperatures to plummet by up to 10°C in some regions – but not where most humans lived.
Here’s what a space tourism industry led by Bezos, Branson and Musk might mean for the planet.
Catastrophic floods in north-western Europe have shown how badly early warning systems can fail.
Climate change is even worse than we expected - so is now the time for conservationists to take extreme measures to stem the extinction crisis?
Colonialism, political turmoil and unmet citizen promises all lie behind the rise of attacks on foreign-run fossil fuel plants in Mozambique.
Killer whales among the animals at risk from a ‘second wave’ of pollutants, as coasts erode and sea levels rise.
Victorian-era engineering is struggling under decades of underinvestment.
African elephants stay in touch over large distances. We found out how.
Hybrid energy systems that combine renewable and non-renewable fuel systems could be the key to sub-Saharan Africa’s energy transition.
Some lithium-ion batteries can now propel a car 250 miles on a ten-minute charge.
A fear of microbes, like germs, could be harming human health.
Pescatarians might frustrate purist vegetarians, but the issues surrounding fish are quite different to meat.
Some Amazon deforestation is caused by recent policy, but there are also long-term issues.
Sat-navs could one day warn motorists when they drive through high-risk areas.
Chemicals in drugs can be excreted unchanged, infiltrating waterways via sewage and effluent.
Mass tree planting could affect precipitation patterns.
Warm-blooded fish can swim 1.6 times faster than their cold-blooded relatives.
Structures are built to withstand a normal range of conditions. But what’s ‘normal’ is changing rapidly.
The ratings used to assess energy efficiency in homes throughout Europe are often inaccurate.
Solve the climate and extinction crises together, or solve neither.