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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.
This winter will see more outdoor socialising than ever before.
Hydrogen is feted as the key to a dynamic green economy. But is it the best choice for decarbonisation in all cases?
If rolled out worldwide, our method could replace a quarter of all the synthetic nitrogen fertiliser used in agriculture.
Indigenous people in rural Borneo associate the coronavirus with modern life, not their traditional hunting.
Modern agriculture releases lots of different greenhouse gas emissions, each with complex effects on the global climate.
New research points to ‘heavy metals’ having unseen effects on a much larger scale than previously thought.
Spreading electricity demand throughout the day is much better for the environment.
New research has mapped sea-level rise around the Isles of Scilly over the last 12,000 years.
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.
Don’t count nuclear energy out – it may be our best hope of reaching net-zero emissions within the time we have left.
A precedent set at the industry’s outset has dominated efforts to reform aviation.
First imported by zoos, wallabies proved to be adept escape artists that can survive in the British countryside.
Active travel has become attractive to a degree not seen for decades. Policy needs to follow.
Who gets to decide what we call the things we eat? Increasingly, wealthy plant-based food moguls.
Is the UK government missing the wood for the trees?
People often leave industry watchdogs to work for the very companies they were previously regulating.
Nature is a promise of escape, a moment of relief and a relationship worth cherishing.
We found evidence of irreversible ecological breakdown millions of years ago – this time round, we should heed the warning signs.
Needed: less wild meat in cities, more wildlife experts in public health.
Low-carbon energy sources aren’t all equally well-suited to getting us to net-zero emissions.
Most existing MPAs are in distant and largely empty waters. Expanding them where it counts will meet a lot of resistance.