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More than 100 volcanoes lie beneath the continent’s ice sheet.
Brazil claims mining and logging will boost the economy and help it protect the environment. But there is little evidence this works.
Sun cream ingredients have been linked to hormonal changes in fish and coral bleaching.
This sudden, 150,000-year long temperature spike has many parallels with modern climate change.
Millions of livelihoods depend on the Indus Basin aquifer.
Autonomous vehicles have many benefits, but they may be bad news for nature conservation.
Energy will become more and more integrated with artificial intelligence and the internet of things.
Why go to all that bother when you can just half-fill the kettle?
Unlike the more abstract idea of global climate change, pollution is tangible and its effects are obvious.
It is a delicate – and dangerous – moment for one of the world’s most ecologically important nations.
The ice sheet is melting and permafrost is thawing. What’s happening in Greenland will speed up climate change across the world.
The traditional media industry comes with a large environmental cost, but emissions from digital productions are often ignored.
Such projects should be clear from the outset about who owns them, who will build them, and who they are for.
They survived the pressures of globalisation and now thrive internationally.
Why protesters should think about putting their feet up.
Formby is one of the only remaining urban areas in England where red squirrels can be found at all.
Exposure to neonicotinoids could lead to fewer bumblebee colonies, less pollination, and ultimately to population extinctions.
Climate scientist Mark Maslin interviewed the former US vice-president about his new film, An Inconvenient Sequel.
Oxygen-free areas will continue to grow until we stop pumping excess nutrients into the oceans.
Soot thrown into the atmosphere would block out the sun, causing crops to fail and people to go hungry.
When the price collapsed, the world’s most disastrously oil-dependent state was the biggest casualty.
The climate change-mitigating dream turns out to be a green damp squib.
Price caps don’t cut it – but community ownership can help solve the energy problem and make people more resilient.
Why keep buying and chucking when you can rent and return?