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As lockdowns ease off, there is a danger that the old city traffic jams will soon be back with a vengeance.
The Baltic crusades had a long term impact on the local environment – 700 years later, the details of this are clear.
Just as it did 75 years ago, the UK government has a chance to build back better from a crisis.
During the pandemic, climate activists are thinking globally and acting digitally.
New study is a brilliant thought experiment, despite focus on an unrealistic worst case climate change scenario.
From take-make-waste to reuse, repair and remanufacture.
Any bailout should include conditions that the airline reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Local people are caught in an impossible situation – stay home and starve or venture out to buy food, potentially bringing the virus home too.
Recent summers have offered a taste of things to come for Welsh farmers.
In my ten years working with and researching it, I’ve encountered lots of myths.
By self-isolating, people all over the world are acting for the collective good. That’s encouraging for tackling climate change.
What a hungry Red kite tells us about human-animal relationships.
Here’s how microplastics from your clothes end up in the deep sea.
Lockdown has exposed real problems with the circular economy which urgently need to be addressed.
Ccoronavirus has put emergency responders and resources under extreme pressure all over the world just as the hurricane season approaches.
The historical record is full of surprises – and it could encourage conservationists to think more creatively.
Cold-water plankton is being replaced by warm-water species.
Ponds create ‘insect chimneys’ which are a boon for hungry farmland birds.
The lockdown may be a greater worry than the disease itself.
The largest study of insect declines to date gives us the best indication of how species all over the world are faring.
Thousands of Americans took part in the first Earth Day 50 years ago. What has changed since then?
During California’s deadliest wildfire season, 2,000 prison inmates fought the flames on USD$1 a day.
An economic downturn as severe as the great depression is possible, but what should emerge out of it?
It is not the case that all extreme weather events are being made stronger or more frequent.