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La Niña means we are forecast a wet winter – and people are struggling and ill-prepared.
It depends on where and how it’s grown, and how it is disposed of or recycled.
Warmer temperatures cannot increase the amount of carbon deciduous trees absorb in each growing season, a new study suggests.
Conflict between fruit-growers, the Mauritian government and conservationists has dragged on for years – it’s time for a new approach.
The reality TV show I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here is under fire for using non-native insects while filming in the Welsh countryside.
Flooding isn’t always destructive – it can be part of our toolkit for restoring ecosystems.
Humans have caused ecosystems to collapse on purpose for millennia, to grow food or build settlements. But unplanned collapses are a different matter.
How scientists discovered the ‘Popa langur’ was a separate species of just 200 monkeys.
One in six fishers in the Gulf of Thailand have been coerced or deceived into working against their will.
Good news for large, small and advanced nuclear reactors.
Historians and scientists discovered how colonisation in eastern Europe changed ecosystems – and the societies embedded in them.
The plan has plenty on reducing emissions, but less on removing already-emitted carbon from the atmosphere.
Because pledges alone won’t achieve net zero.
To understand the barriers endangered species face when trying to traverse their habitat, it helps to think of their environment like an electrical circuit board.
How solar power stations in orbit could become a reality in the coming decades.
The Blue Belt is a network of marine protected areas 17 times larger than the UK.
How museums can reimagine themselves in the context of the climate crisis.
Our new research shows the island’s largest glaciers are losing ice faster than previously thought.
Here’s how to quench your thirst in an environmentally responsible way.
For every kilometre of road in Europe, you’re likely to find one dead hedgehog.
How Joe Biden could unite the US behind plans to tackle climate change.
If so, then the possibility of planetary super-heating in future has just become much more real.
Dark skies have value. They are a profoundly wonderful yet highly threatened natural asset.
Hamstrung by a Republican Senate, President-elect Biden will need to look abroad for collaborators on climate action.