Nacho Doce / Reuters
Indonesia’s haze made global headlines but an intense dry season has also sparked major fires in Brazil.
Chinese dolphins: sadly, not in the pink.
Osrin/flickr
These unusual and endangered creatures now face a new threat.
Climate change is not top of countries like Greece’s agenda right now. Maybe it should be.
Christophe Petit Tesson
COP21 is an opportunity for countries like Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal to reinvent their economies along environmentally friendly and sustainable lines.
Zodiac icewarp.
Rene van der Wal
A team of researchers went to the High Arctic to retrace the steps of a 1960s expedition. They came away with far more than they bargained for.
Xi Jinping doesn’t want to be the villain of Paris.
Etienne Laurent / EPA
Many developing nations are likely to support any motions China proposes at COP21.
Nacho Doce / Reuters
The latest climate summit will avoid the real issue: capitalism demands exponential growth, driven by fossil-fuels.
Extreme weather is more common than ever.
Mohamed Alhwaity / Reuters
The scientific case rests on six key observations.
Sudan, the last remaining male northern white rhinoceros, meets the Maasai Cricket Warriors.
Thomas Mukoya / Reuters
Their flimsy chances rely on the eggs and sperm from the remaining three elderly animals, combined with frozen DNA from dead rhino.
Nightmarish societies triggered by catastrophic climate events.
Yumikrum
The dystopian futures and nightmarish societies that inspire hope but can’t insist on change.
KIT
New technique captures 78% carbon using molten tin.
Desert troughs.
Green Prophet
A large solar thermal plant in Morocco will provide energy for 1m people – here’s how it will work.
Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters
Cows are one of the least efficient ways to go from field to fork.
Yep…still melting.
USGS
There’s no agreed definition, no agreed starting point – and no data to back it up.
Gas is the solution to some but not all our problems.
magnascan
UK’s decision to close coal power plants is really a statement of the obvious, and does nothing to answer the problem of what to do afterwards.
Mick Tsikas / EPA
Environmental factors are important, but we must not ignore history and politics.
CH3 C(O)CH2 CH2 CO2 H? Eureka!
Reuters
Levulinic acid is derived from plants and can be used to make everything from pharmaceuticals to plastics.
When it comes to gas vs renwables, it seems the balance isn’t right.
Richard Humphrey
Who’d want to take part in the UK energy economy when the government keeps changing the rules?
Russia has lots of gas – but needs a lot of heat.
Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
Russia wants recognition for its huge forests and will ensure any climate deal doesn’t harm its economic interests.
Volcanic eruptions lead to global cooling – could we mimic them?
Beawiharta Beawiharta / Reuters
Though climate engineering has lots of problems we need to do more than simply cut emissions.
Doug Janson
The birds’ brightly coloured beaks are worth more than elephant tusks.
Time to get inside? A dust storm approaches.
Zooey/flickr
Batten down the hatches. These are nature’s nuclear weapons.
South Bend Voice
Don’t look to politicians and high finance, it’s pressure from below that will be the driver of change.
Will the EU reveal its true face?
Francois Lenoir / Reuters
After being quietly ignored at Copenhagen 2009, these talks are a big challenge for the EU.
Cotton on the move in Burkina Faso.
CIFOR
The GM debate in the developing world encompasses countries with very different priorities. Through the shrill battle of interests, the real agents for change tend to be overlooked.
Mike Blake / Reuters
No one wants animals to suffer, but it is notoriously difficult to measure their welfare.