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New and stronger evidence confirms global warming will mean more intense and frequent floods, heatwaves and droughts.
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Amid a growing human population, African elephants are confined to an increasingly managed existence. Do we want more for one of the world’s most loved species?
Mukuru, Nairobi.
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How theatre and artwork allowed us to better address severe air pollution.
Firefighters tackle a large blaze on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester, England, February 2019.
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Wildfires broke out across the British Isles during a recent heatwave. But the burning question of the link to climate change does not have an easy answer.
Angler fish haunt the deep seas.
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The pressure in the deepest part of the ocean can be 1,000 times greater than the pressure we experience at sea level – but creatures that live and visit there have some very special features.
‘American Progress’ by John Gast.
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Progress, in historical terms, has so often meant clearing places of their native inhabitants – both human and non-human.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveils the Green New Deal resolution.
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By making people confront the scale of the climate challenge, the Green New Deal is a great leap forward.
Bloomin’ early.
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Record heat in February 2019 caused shock and delight in equal measure. Behind the balmy weather lie challenges for British wildlife.
A soldier guards a fuel distribution centre in El Salto, Mexico.
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Recent pipeline explosions have brought the problem of Mexico’s black market for oil into tragic relief.
A future farm?
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It’s time for farmers to embrace the wetland instead of draining it.
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Carbon emission declines are far from inevitable, and require concerted policy action to support low-carbon energy and, critically, less energy demand.
A critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle.
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Mathematic models are becoming more sophisticated and now they could actually predict how likely a species is to die out.
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Revealed: spotted hyaena are actually excellent hunters in their own right.
When temperatures rise and ice melts, more water flows to the seas and ocean water warms and expands in volume.
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Plastic is not as much of a threat to oceans as climate change or over-fishing.
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Eating animals is natural and not evil in itself, but the torment of factory farming is a very good reason to go vegan.
Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland National Park, UK.
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Approximately 50% of the UK’s poorest people live over 15 miles from a national park and most people require transport to get to them.
A buff tailed bumble bee emerges from a crocus covered in pollen.
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For human planting to support bee diversity, we need to know which flowers the insects want to visit.
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Filtering air uses lots of energy and concentrates harmful chemicals in landfills.
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Consumers are only benefitting from cheap clothes at considerable cost to the environment and by exploitation of a poor, vulnerable garment workers.
JC142 research cruise: reproduced with permission of the British Geological Survey, National Oceanography Centre ©UKRI 2018.
Deep sea mining could supply valuable rare minerals to green technology, but one project in the south-west Pacific is invoking the wrath of local spirits.
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Four pieces of advice for young people wanting to fight climate change.
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A recent report warned that insects ‘could vanish by the end of the century’. Here’s why that would cause a collapse of nature.
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Gathering Storm and other games like Frostpunk are now engaging with environmental issues.
Drax biomass plant, Yorkshire.
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The Drax biomass plant in Yorkshire is the first in the world to pioneer carbon capture and some specialists see it as it has a bright future. But hold the rosy headlines.
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Nurdles are a raw feedstock used to make most of the plastic products we use everyday, but they’re flooding the ocean as “mermaid tears”.