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This winter will see more outdoor socialising than ever before.
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Hydrogen is feted as the key to a dynamic green economy. But is it the best choice for decarbonisation in all cases?
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If rolled out worldwide, our method could replace a quarter of all the synthetic nitrogen fertiliser used in agriculture.
A newly-hunted wild boar is taken back to a village in Borneo.
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Indigenous people in rural Borneo associate the coronavirus with modern life, not their traditional hunting.
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Modern agriculture releases lots of different greenhouse gas emissions, each with complex effects on the global climate.
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New research points to ‘heavy metals’ having unseen effects on a much larger scale than previously thought.
Lockdown disrupted our daily routines – and lowered their carbon footprint.
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Spreading electricity demand throughout the day is much better for the environment.
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New research has mapped sea-level rise around the Isles of Scilly over the last 12,000 years.
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While long-term exposure of lower levels of radiation for wildlife around Chernobyl is still being debated, new research provides insight into the effects on bumblebee populations.
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Don’t count nuclear energy out – it may be our best hope of reaching net-zero emissions within the time we have left.
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A precedent set at the industry’s outset has dominated efforts to reform aviation.
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First imported by zoos, wallabies proved to be adept escape artists that can survive in the British countryside.
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Active travel has become attractive to a degree not seen for decades. Policy needs to follow.
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Who gets to decide what we call the things we eat? Increasingly, wealthy plant-based food moguls.
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Is the UK government missing the wood for the trees?
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People often leave industry watchdogs to work for the very companies they were previously regulating.
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Nature is a promise of escape, a moment of relief and a relationship worth cherishing.
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We found evidence of irreversible ecological breakdown millions of years ago – this time round, we should heed the warning signs.
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Needed: less wild meat in cities, more wildlife experts in public health.
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Low-carbon energy sources aren’t all equally well-suited to getting us to net-zero emissions.
Sweetlips shoal in the Raja Ampat marine protected area, Indonesia.
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Most existing MPAs are in distant and largely empty waters. Expanding them where it counts will meet a lot of resistance.
Ice floes in the Laptev Sea, Russia.
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The Laptev Sea is one of the Arctic’s biggest nurseries of new sea ice in winter, but Siberia’s record summer heat may have halted production.
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We need to focus on causes like overconsumption, not the material itself.
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The effects of climate change and mitigation are not just unequal between countries but also within countries.
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Landmark case highlights the conflict between immediate climate action and a gradual transition to renewables.