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Three researchers studied the “crop raiders” of the Brazilian rainforest in the hope of aiding both local farmers and wildlife conservation.
A heritage landscape researcher used the work of a Victorian aerial photographer to map a century of glacial loss in the Alps – and the results are staggering.
Politics has been disrupted by the financial crisis and the rise of new technologies. Rapid change suddenly looks a lot more possible.
‘Ridge A’ sits at the peak of the Antarctic ice sheet and has exceptionally cold, dry, thin and dark skies.
Reforms to fossil fuel subsidies must be combined with effective anti-poverty policies.
Those on low incomes get less back from home improvement schemes than they pay in government charges.
Food chains are often so complex that it’s too hard to make the right choices.
Long-term climate modelling may appear to focus on the impossibly far future. But the full impact of some climate processes won’t be apparent for centuries.
Artisanal fishers in Sri Lanka are throwing away more marine species than they keep.
Plant-based, sustainable plastics may hold many of the answers to our plastic problems.
Talk of ethnic and religious conflict between Muslim Fulani herders and local Christian farmers misses the full picture – this is about resources.
After a long run of devastating typhoons, one country is holding the world’s biggest corporations to account on climate change.
Oil companies are pushing the world to believe they are the solution to, not the cause of, climate change.
If you want to live like a local when on holiday, you should defecate like one.
Using real apes and monkeys as actors in film and TV encourages people to see them as pets.
Nuclear bomb tests potentially mark the start of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.
The fossil fuel era won’t last forever. And a new set of countries will find their reserves of lithium, copper and rare earth metals are in high demand.
To save the orangutans we must both protect their forests and stop any hunting and killing within them.
The history of the rubber ‘boom’ reveals why.
New research finds small drones on short deliveries use less carbon than the equivalent vehicles.
The ‘canaries of the sea’ are sending a worrying message about the health of our oceans.
Forest fires emit twice as much carbon in the Brazilian Amazon as deforestation, according to new research.
The European Investment Bank’s funding of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline will harm the climate and makes little financial sense.
Promises to consult with indigenous groups are routinely ignored as Peru eyes up the natural resources found in its rainforests.