Agriculture has historically been a major contributor to global warming — but it can also play a major role in solving the climate crisis. Emily Rees, the president and CEO of CropLife International…
More than any previous year, this year’s UN climate conference, COP28, is likely to be judged on its ability to deal with climate finance. The hosts, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have implied this…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment Report, released in 2021, stated that South Asia will face intensified monsoon seasons, heatwaves and changing snowmelt…
Ayear ago, in the final declaration from COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, the global climate community finally started to address the fact that climate change impacts society primarily through the water…
Stare at a climate map of the world that we expect to inhabit 50 years from now and you see a band of extreme heat encircling the planet’s midriff. Climate modelling from 2020 suggests that within …
We finally have a government – but at what cost? I have previously said that New Zealanders did not vote for a lurch to the right. The difference in the seats tell us that story – 59 v 55 on the left…
Faced with the now undeniable impacts of climate crisis created by humans, political leaders in wealthier countries incline towards one of two competing responses. They either question the urgency…
Emissions from the motor sector could have fallen by more than 30% between 2010 and 2022 if vehicles had stayed the same size, a report has found.
Instead, the size of the average car ballooned as…
The medicinal leech is one of nature’s least loved hunters. Armed with three strong interlocking jaws and with a taste for blood, they will swim hungrily towards humans, deer or cattle that wander…
Raw sewage has been discharged into Chichester harbour for more than 1,200 hours in the past month, in what campaigners described as “an assault on the environment”.
The protected harbour in West…
The crickets that chirp in the meadows are newcomers, as are the elegant wasp spiders and the colourful Jersey tiger moths.
A city farm in the Georgian city of Bath is the latest conservation…
The federal US government has paused the importation of millions of pounds of toxic PFAS “forever chemical” waste from the Netherlands following intense backlash from residents near a North Carolina …
Alice Hughes found the strange reptile in March. It was hanging by its long, slender fingers from the limestone wall of a cave in northern Thailand: a grey-brown gecko she believes belongs to a…
The ford is a problem. We shuffle across the Rhenass River, water an inch from the top of our wellies. Somehow free from squelchy socks, I ponder when somebody last walked this lane. This is one of…
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