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Making the solutions cheaper – rather than the problems more expensive – could reduce emissions more fairly.
We need to move towards ‘sufficiency-oriented’ lifestyles.
How to trigger eco-innovations after COVID-19.
Building a greener economy starts at home.
With oil selling at rock bottom prices, a glut of cheap plastic could reverse progress on recycling.
New findings show how changes in land use have complex effects on animal and plant species.
Citizen scientists have helped researchers track the changing environment during the pandemic.
We shouldn’t try to banish waste entirely. We need to rethink it.
Major new survey shows big national variations in levels of concern, polarisation and media usage.
Road and rail construction is booming in sub-Saharan Africa, but the pandemic has brought a welcome pause for reflection.
We are too reliant on supermarkets and industrial agriculture.
A decentralised climate organisation, based on blockchain, could help get the world to work together to act against climate change.
Our research investigated 900 ‘alien’ species across almost 200,000 protected areas worldwide.
Australia is home to 20 of the 25 most venomous snakes in the world.
Glacier mice aren’t rodents – they’re mysterious balls of moss that manage to live in one of the world’s harshest environments.
There are no easy solutions when it comes to environmental concerns about the European fishing industry. Often solving an issue means replacing one problem with another.
Cyclone Amphan was one of the worst cyclones to hit Bangladesh in modern times. But thanks to local action, many lives were saved.
A recent ransomware attack on the UK electricity system shows this pandemic is also about computer viruses.
The pandemic has forced many people to shift from public transport to car travel. But is this likely to be permanent?
Scientists have now dated the ‘Great Oxidation Event’ to just before the planet’s first ‘snowball’ period.
A decade of no grazing has demonstrated positive effects on the richness of bird species.
While natural fibre textiles like cotton have generated an environmentally friendly reputation in recent years they might be just as bad as microplastic textiles like polyester and Nylon.
Efforts to engineer Britain’s rivers over the past 75 years have only made flooding worse.
Massive cyclone that hit India and Bangladesh could have been so much worse.