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The discovery that such a common animal can rapidly produce vast numbers of nanoplastics is particularly worrying.
Sea levels could be two metres higher by 2100. How will our relationship to the drowned coast change?
The age of a forest can influence how effectively it offsets our emissions.
At Jordan’s Zaatari Refugee Camp, small bushes of tumbleweed grow everywhere, and seeds have been planted in hope of growing tiny Persian cucumbers.
New research exposes the common tropes of bad faith arguments about climate change.
But with chimps now endangered, we risk losing their forest-rebuilding abilities.
They will find minimal traces of the virus itself, but lots of PPE.
We found plastic waste in pellets seabirds regurgitated and lining the nests where they raise chicks.
The Swedish ‘flight shame’ campaign was a runaway success. We asked those it affected how it influenced their travel behaviour.
Grid-scale batteries could be at least double the cost of those in electric vehicles.
Here’s how to make sure nature-based prescriptions are actually effective.
Plastic flows to the world’s waterbodies could double over the next two decades.
The extraordinary story of a stingray, its discovery and its uncertain fate in the Yemen war.
New study shows low levels of future global warming are far less likely than previously thought. Very high warming is also slightly less likely.
Energy efficiency and electrification should lead the effort to decarbonise society, not hydrogen.
Electricity is only one part of the green energy puzzle we need to solve.
More than 80% of the world’s offshore wind blows further from land than conventional wind farms can reach.
This is the story of ‘Misha’, as I have come to know her. Both I and my research have been deeply affected by a polar bear I have never met face to face.
Pesticides and high temperatures can disrupt the development of small coral reef fish by targeting their hormones.
Without plastic shielding between seats or more efficient engines, the environmental benefits of public transport are lost.
Urban green spaces can be a rich habitat for diverse pollinators, if they’re managed properly.
Powerful interests are shaping the debate over the transition to a low carbon economy.
New research reveals how roads channel microplastics from car tires and brake pads to remote ocean habitats.
Climate change is thawing permafrost and increasing the risk of these accidents, and the region has fewer of the bacteria that can ‘clean up’ oil spills.