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Each new human on the planet makes extinctions more likely, yet birth control still isn’t seen as a big environmental issue.
Summer budget signals a return to the unsustainable ways of the past.
But sandy beaches aren’t just tourist eye candy – they’re a vital defence against coastal erosion.
The UK’s recent heatwave is perfect for mosquito breeding but something far more dangerous may be coming.
While global warming will continue, it’s important to assess variability as well as long-term average climates.
Personalised energy services would stop everyone getting ripped off.
Cars are dirty and wasteful. Large fleets of autonomous taxis could cut emissions and reduce inefficiency.
Shifting air currents high up in the skies can have a big impact down on the ground.
Wealthy commuters, retirees and second home owners are pricing locals out of the villages they grew up in.
Fancy new battery technology is great – but still far off the scale required to put a serious dent in carbon usage.
Parts of the UK are sizzling thanks to Iberian air.
Major survey shows how attitudes towards GM food in Europe depend on gender, background and profession.
Those against shale gas extraction have scored a couple of wins in the north-west of England, but industry-government-researcher collusion may yet win the day.
Conservation won’t be successful unless we work with people living at the forest edge.
The IPCC’s UN-validated climate science could be used to hold governments to account.
It’s too soon for a Lancashire County Council to be making a decision with such huge environmental implications.
The morality of which animals we can and can’t eat doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
With most species out of the way, remaining plants and animals rush to evolve into the ecological gaps.
With wind braced for more cutbacks, government backing of nuclear and fracking will end in tears.
Mobile operators’ business models mean millions of phones are sat around unused.
Should solving global warming be left to market forces or not? Our politicians can’t make up their minds.
Britain could do more with its green and windy lands.
Brazil will find a way to ship its goods to China whether we like it or not, and for a rainforest roads are much worse than rail.
Ditching the testosterone meant humans were able to develop cooperative culture.