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A entire beach in Ireland has returned 33 years after being washed away.
Chances are you won’t make it through this article without wiping your hands.
What if extreme weather events could be attributed to human-induced climate change with confidence?
The era of a new coal power plant in China every week is over.
Though the Common Agricultural Policy has few friends, it will be incredibly tough to replace it with something better.
This summer sees the release of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.
Theresa May has ignored the ‘low politics’ of energy for too long.
Diesel engines have been demonised for their emissions but the technology has already cleaned up its act.
Energy firms should compete over the ‘stickiest’ customers, who won’t switch suppliers.
Farmers are setting fire to their straw and spreading air pollution across northern India.
But the most effective measures will be unpopular.
The $4m cost is almost double the anti-poaching budget for South African National Parks.
Eat less meat, save the world
Time for a little more make do and mend.
Scientists investigating an underwater mountain have found lots of tellurium, a mineral used in some solar panels.
Scientists want to exploit a natural process of carbon storage.
Developed nations need to stop telling smoggy cities to clean up their act and start critiquing their own consumption habits.
Super-fertile slugs from the continent have bred with their cousins in the UK.
The Dani people were part of a thriving agricultural society long before Westerners ‘discovered’ them in the 1930s.
Over-consumption of food is bad for the planet and unhealthy for humans.
The link between melting sea ice and extreme weather has been known for a while, but now it’s happening further afield.
Pollution, poverty, disease and death: future cities will be grim places, unless we do things differently.
Shell’s proposals to decommission its four Brent platforms are a test case for North Sea industry. But here’s why decommissioning is not what it’s cracked up to be.
Those on the far right already worry about finite resources and protecting traditional culture, and they see the natural landscape as a big part of national identity.