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Richer countries import products but not the emissions used to make them.
Seagrass meadows play a significant role in supporting world fishery productivity.
Many sacred sites such as temples, and churchyards are havens for biodiversity.
The council has considered terrorism, nuclear weapons and international crime. But it has largely ignored the climate.
Smart technology can help the environment, preserve biodiversity and protect sensitive areas, such as national parks.
But often these new ‘forests’ have only grown thanks to increased deforestation abroad.
Meet the first team trying to understand the secrets of Mount Everest’s glaciers.
A reserve near Amsterdam lost many wild cattle and deer over the tough winter, leading to public protests. Yet this was a failure of Dutch politics rather than rewilding itself.
I analysed 15 million words written by major oil companies and found their usage of ‘climate change’ peaked a decade ago.
How to cut down on toxic chemicals found in common household products.
The wrecks of the German WWI fleet are home to an abundance of biodiverse marine life, now under threat from climate change.
As companies and governments attempt to intensify extraction, cultural resistance offers a space for imagining alternative futures.
We cannot spot every shark in the ocean. But we can detect their ‘environmental DNA’.
The oak processionary moth established itself in the UK a decade ago, ahead of the parasitoids that would normally keep its numbers in check.
Climate change plans can bring broader benefits to cities, while helping avert disaster.
Politicians and economists call for emissions cuts while also embracing free trade – they can’t have it both ways.
Some scientists want to replace ‘ecosystem services’ with ‘Nature’s Contributions to People’.
Undrinkable drinking water is just one example of how blockades and war have permeated an entire ecosystem.
The world needs more affordable housing with a lower environmental impact. The stabilised supermud brick could be the answer.
How to move beyond the warm words about tackling urban heat islands to doing something about them.
New director-general Helen McGrady is looking to cities for a ‘radical’ future at the National Trust.
It’s nearly impossible to kill, so we need to start working with Japanese knotweed to control it.
There’s plenty of evidence that modern swill-feeding would be safe, sustainable, and popular.
We looked at ten countries in East Africa and found poverty and politics were much more important drivers of conflict and displacement than climate change.