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Governments agreed in 2015 to transform society by 2030. Here’s how that’s going.
The little ice age unleashed famines and revolutions which tested the very bonds of society.
New technologies known as vehicle to grid may allow us to power our houses and save money at the same time.
Everyone loves the idea of H2 cars, but they come with a huge disadvantage.
More than a century since humans learned to fly, we need to revolutionise how we stay up there.
Mangrove forests grow in the tidal lagoons of tropical coastlines and they could actually benefit from climate change. Here’s what that means for us.
Scientists asked young people to draw what they would like the natural world to look like when they’re older. Their imagination could help make conservationists more ambitious.
What can we expect from our future climate after looking at the ‘Hothouse Earths’ of the past?
Our energy supply underpins everything we do – so why is it exempt from the fair trade arguments used for food and clothing?
Tech fixes to environmental problems are guaranteed to grab attention, but real change for the planet requires community organising.
It’s a bumper year for lizards, a mixed bag for butterflies and a dismal time for frogs and toads …
Energy experts are getting excited about a proposed solar farm in Kent and what it could mean for a clean energy future.
Lowering your carbon footprint by living off-grid is a sustainability dream. But how possible is it using current technology?
Can forests effectively remove carbon from the atmosphere?
The Australian government’s commitments to protecting the reef means it avoids the embarrassing classification - for now.
In a rare conservation success story, research has shown that numbers of wild large carnivores in the continent have been steadily increasing and a third of the European mainland now has at least one kind…
A white, middle-aged, country man who nevertheless forgot to take his wellies to a flood zone a stone’s throw from one of his infamous badger cull areas, now finds himself culled. Is this how we should…
A species of bee declared extinct in the UK almost 30 years ago is flying again – thanks in part to the efforts of farmers. Researchers have been restoring the short-haired bumblebee to Romney Marsh and…
A recent study by the organisation Moms Across America claims to have found a pesticide at harmful levels in human breast milk and urine. Moms Across America is an organisation concerned with the use of…
It is said that if you listen carefully on the shores of Aberdyfi in northwest Wales you can hear the bells of the drowned church of Maes Gwyddno ringing a sad lament beneath the waves. Such tales suggest…
The report released jointly by the Royal Society in the UK and the US National Academy of Sciences provides a guide to current climate change science for a non-scientific audience. In this respect it is…
Can enormous heat deep in the earth be harnessed to provide energy for us on the surface? A promising report from a geothermal borehole project that accidentally struck magma – the same fiery, molten rock…
Geologists are using drones to help extract more resources from the North Sea, using the latest visual technologies to identify oil-bearing rocks. Using an eight-rotor, camera-equipped “octocopter” drone…
The hippopotamus is among the world’s largest creatures on land, only elephants and some species of rhino are larger. Hippos are very aggressive – legendarily bad tempered and entirely unafraid of humans…