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Tracking species over their lifetimes can reveal their climate adaptation secrets.
The earth our towns and cities are built on is teeming with potential. It is under threat too
Legumes have a superpower: they can convert nitrogen in the air into a form plants can use to grow.
Even if they can’t save us from climate change, society still depends on forests.
It may seem a long way away, but meeting targets in 2035 demands taking action today.
Prominent academics, including a former IPCC chair, round on governments worldwide for using the concept of net zero emissions to ‘greenwash’ their lack of commitment to solving global warming.
Plus how to interpret the outcome of the pre-COP26 summit.
First ever feeding experiments reveal that solitary bees need to carb-load – and can be picky when it comes to dieting.
Stenophylla’s black cherries have brightened prospects for a coffee supply that can withstand rising disease, pests and droughts.
A lack of policy has allowed industrial chicken farms to multiply in certain parts of the UK – with a lack of consideration of the environmental and social impacts.
From larger-than-life Lego blocks to bird-nest inspired structures, researchers are finding innovative ways to reuse and recycle the plastic we throw away.
Scientists need to know how much we can rely on the land to offset our emissions.
One-fifth of Earth’s land could be restored to wilderness by reintroducing animals and improving management.
A new survey serves up a tall order for UK agricultural policy outside the EU.
Earth’s floating solar power capacity has grown one-hundredfold in the last five years.
SUVs accounted for 7% of the European market in 2009. Today, it’s almost 40%.
In a new study, we found that a third of Antarctica’s ice shelves could collapse at 4°C of global warming.
To get a grip on the biodiversity crisis, we’ll need to understand how wildlife is threatened in our own backyard.
The children argue failure to tackle climate change constitutes youth discrimination.
Climate change is strengthening the division between the ocean surface and the abyss.
NFTs don’t even exist in the real world, but the market around them has a big effect on the planet.
Long-overdue changes are afoot in Britain’s bus networks.
Hydrogen isn’t very efficient, but it fits many business models.
All the ways plants, animals, insects and the bacteria around us can be beneficial to human health.