The Morrison government has told researchers at two of Australia’s leading universities it will break a…
Month: March 2020
The race to save Polesia, Europe’s secret Amazon
On the banks of the Pripyat River lies a forest. On a crisp winter afternoon with…
A snowless winter around Europe – in pictures
Grampian, Scotland The Lecht ski centre near Tomintoul deserted due to a total absence of snow…
‘Seismic shift’: ministers signal end of badger cull
The controversial cull of badgers across England will begin to be phased out in the next…
This winter in Europe was hottest on record by far, say scientists
This winter has been by far the hottest recorded in Europe, scientists have announced, with the…
Why don’t we treat the climate crisis with the same urgency as coronavirus? | Owen Jones
It is a global emergency that has already killed on a mass scale and threatens to…
Glowing, glowing, gone: plunge in glow-worm numbers revealed
Glow-worm numbers have plunged by three-quarters since 2001, research in England has revealed, with the climate…
‘Individual actions do add up’: Christiana Figueres on the climate crisis
Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican diplomat who was an architect of the worldwide Paris climate agreement,…
The small Dutch town that wants to shape the future of your food
In the low-lying Gelderse Valley some 85km east of Amsterdam, a Dutch university is changing how…
Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon, study finds
Tropical forests are taking up less carbon dioxide from the air, reducing their ability to act…