A survey of what young people perceive to be the biggest threat to Europe reveals some surprising information.
In the Fir Tree, children stamp on a discarded – but feeling – Christmas tree.
The Fir Tree, illustrated by George Dalziel and Edward Dalziel, from Out of the Heart: Spoken to the Little Ones, 1867
The Industrial Revolution choked English cities in smog, filled rivers with waste and spread disease in crowded cities. At the same time, fairy tales about humans destroying nature proliferated.
The original conflict between development and preservation of natural assets is broadening as the risks of climate change become ever more obvious.
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Conflicts over coastal areas have largely been between development and preserving what makes these attractive places to live. Rising sea levels are now complicating our relationship with the coast.
Mangroves have died along a 1,000km stretch of coastline in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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In early 2016 reports appeared that vast swathes of mangroves had died in the Gulf of Carpentaria. It now appears heat and drought were to blame.
Coal train in Missouri. Assigning a social cost to carbon emissions puts a price on activities that generate them, such as burning fossil fuels.
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To weigh the economic impact of climate change policies, we need to estimate the social cost of carbon. An economist explains how it’s done and why the Trump administration shouldn’t end the practice.
If people are starting to look much worse in democratic terms, trees are starting to look much better. We are learning that plants engage in meaningful and, more to the point, truthful communication.
There wouldn’t be statues acclaiming Darwin and his theory if it couldn’t stand up to decades of testing.
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In science, the word ‘theory’ has a very specific meaning that’s easy for nonscientists to misunderstand or misconstrue. Here’s what a theory must withstand to be accepted by the scientific community.
The human footprint on Australia’s environment is evident in areas such as land use change.
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The State of the Environment 2016 report shows that the main drivers of environmental change in Australia are land-use change, habitat destruction, invasive species and climate change.
In Benin, women plant things which can be eaten while men planted things that earned them immediate income.
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Are we in a race against climate change? Or is it a war? How does thinking of the past or the future affect your support for the science? Researchers are learning how metaphors and context matter.
We need to take back the atmosphere to save it from pollution.
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As Donald Trump promises to pull America out of the Paris climate agreement, we need concerted civil action to turn our atmosphere into a public trust.
New South Wales has just had its hottest summer on record – an event that was made 50 times more likely by humans’ impact on the climate.
Will talk of adapting to climate change be less polarizing politically? Faced with rising seas, Miami is adapting by raising its roads.
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As the world needs to produce more food to feed a larger and wealthier population, climate change is impacting a number of staple crops around the world.