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Some atmospheric pollutants actually help cool the planet, but the sudden shutdown of heavy industry threatened to purge them.
Activists can broaden the purview of green recovery plans and highlight issues of climate justice.
Shaking polypropylene bottles and washing them with very hot water can release millions of tiny plastic particles. Here are four ways to reduce exposure.
House plants enrich our domestic lives in ways we often fail to notice. But lockdown may have changed all that.
Staff and customers with underlying health conditions are likely to be most at risk at drive-through windows.
By unlocking the full potential of rhino ovaries, we hope to produce enough eggs to revive the northern white rhino in the wild.
We found that signal crayfish traps tend to catch larger males, letting the bulk of the population go free.
John MacArthur’s long-held view that climate change is fiction is just part of a wider Christian movement coalescing around this important election issue.
Despite Boris Johnson’s newfound enthusiasm for offshore wind farms, the UK risks going backwards on wind power capacity.
Indonesia has a warning system for tsunamis generated by earthquakes – but not volcanoes.
Why structured contact with nature, rolled out with government support, will go a long way to solving the psychological distress of coronavirus.
The ghosts of our industrial and agricultural past continue to haunt freshwater ecosystems today.
A recent report found widespread support among North Sea oil and gas workers for a career in renewable energy.
Climate migrants still tend to move to places they know or have connections to through their social networks.
China has a monopoly on rare earth metals, so where will the materials for the UK’s wind revolution come from?
Why were mammals travelling south through newly-formed Panama so much more successful than those heading north?
One in five now work exclusively from home in the UK. But remote workers still drive about as often as commuters – though for different reasons.
We must turn pledges into immediate action and restore our ecosystems on a global level.
Flattening inequality between and within countries could allow everyone a good standard of living within a liveable climate.
Decommissioning offshore structures is expensive and environmentally damaging – so why is it illegal to leave them where they are?
Our research identified three key lessons.
It’s time to listen to warnings from the people of the Pacific.
An Italian study revealed how a murder mystery novel and a medical rarity were used to whip up media hysteria about spiders.
The world missed all 20 targets for stemming the tide of biodiversity loss. But there has been some progress over the last decade.