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Britain greets a new decade with substantially cleaner electricity, but challenges lie ahead to decarbonise its transport and heating.
We asked some climate researchers what kept them hopeful in 2019.
The more we buy, the more we throw away.
If harm to native wildlife is the main concern then there are much bigger targets for control than grey squirrels.
We’re not powerless to change the future of food. Nature and technology can combine to nourish both the earth and its inhabitants.
Shark skin is composed of millions of tiny scales, which have a similar chemical composition to human teeth.
The holy river is used and abused so much that it barely reaches the Dead Sea these days.
New research shows even brief hot spells can damage seed quality.
Saving seed is a way of protecting the world’s vegetable varieties, saving money, and increasingly, a political statement too.
There is nothing funny about the prospect of environmental collapse. But comedy can highlight the errors that led us to the crisis, and encourage us to act in the face of hopelessness.
Global heating could reduce mountain glacier snow and ice by up to 80% by 2100, threatening major drinking water supplies.
The science says that more or better climate education won’t convince sceptics. Here’s what we can do instead.
What is the climate emergency, and whose climate crisis is it anyway?
The European Commission will propose a wide-ranging ‘climate law’ in the next few months.
Areas of the UK may lose their topsoil in little over a century according to new research.
After his landslide victory, Boris Johnson declared his ambition to make his country ‘the cleanest, greenest on Earth’. Here’s what he needs to do to prove it.
Directly linking climate change with aggression and mass migration risks dehumanising those vulnerable to environmental stresses. Mufazzar’s story does the opposite.
Mythical mistletoe can be traced back to Norse legends.
Electric trains use seven times less carbon dioxide than cars. With careful planning, railways could drastically cut emissions from a sector that now accounts for a quarter of the carbon in our air.
Satellite research confirms its enormous ice sheet is melting faster than most scientists predicted.
Many businesses are capitalising on the rise in experience-seeking with new and expensive ways to make memories – and many of them are just as damaging for the planet as products.
Non-living nature such as rocks, landforms, soil and water form the Earth’s ‘geodiversity’ - a crucial part of the planet’s life support system.
Farming and habitat destruction have caused the species to disappear from large areas of Europe.
The Victorians placed rivers in underground culverts to contain the smell and create new land for buildings.