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How Climate Change is Harming Communications in the Animal World
By Mahasweta Saha, Marine Chemical Ecologist, Plymouth Marine Laboratory What do the following changes have in common? Some ant species are struggling to follow trails,...
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5 Countries Taking the Most Action to Reach Net-Zero Targets
By Clea Schumer, Cynthia Elliott and Rebecca Gasper To date, over 90 countries have set net-zero emissions targets, committing to help prevent the most harmful impacts from climate change. But questions remain around...
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Northern Europe is dangerously unprepared for the rise in heatwaves
By Jesus Lizana, Nicole Miranda and Radhika Khosla, all University of Oxford Limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5℃ is getting harder. A recent UN...
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Why Europe Has Lost Half a Billion Birds in 40 years
Article by Richard Gregory, Honorary Professor of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, UCL A trickle of studies warning that the enormous variety of living things on...
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What You Can and Can’t Recycle in the UK in 2023
Article by Matthew Derry, Lecturer in Chemistry, Aston University When it comes to recycling are you a wishcycler? No, I didn’t know what this term...
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Arctic Ocean could have ‘dangerous’ ice-free summers by 2030s
Article by Jonathan Bamber, Professor of Physical Geography, University of Bristol The Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by the 2030s, even if we...
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Masses of Microplastics Found In Arctic Sea Algae
Article by Deonie Allen, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham; Melanie Bergmann, Senior Scientist, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and...
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Is Disruption More Effective Than Marching Over The Climate Crisis?
By Andrew Matthew Macdonald, PhD Candidate, Climate Activism, University of York Gil Scott Heron argued that the Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Yet recently in...
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How Plants Can Improve Your Mental Health
By Sven Batke, Lecturer in Biology, Edge Hill University Plants look so different from animals, that it’s easy for many people to think of them...
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Pangolins Unprotected by Chinese Product Labels
By Niu Yuhan Late last year, the China Customs Anti-smuggling Bureau received an award for arresting numerous wildlife criminals and its participation in global anti-smuggling operations. The...
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The Green Way of Dealing with Japanese Knotweed
By Sophie Hocking, Lecturer in Biosciences, Swansea University When it was introduced to Europe in the mid-19th century as an ornamental plant, Japanese knotweed, known...
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7 Ways to Recycle Heat, Save Money and Cut Carbon Emissions
By Amin Al-Habaibeh, Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems, Nottingham Trent University Heating of space and water in buildings accounts for about 44% of all energy...
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5 Ways To Talk About The Devastating IPCC Climate Report
By Josh Ettinger, University of Oxford The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report is a sobering read, which some describe as a “final warning”...
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UK Suffering More Intense Rain Because of Climate Change
by Elizabeth Kendon, Professor of Climate Science, University of Bristol In July 2021, Kew in London experienced a month’s rain in just three hours. Across...
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Insects are Disappearing - and That’s Bad News For Us All
By Stuart Reynolds, Emeritus Professor of Biology Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there are fewer insects...
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Livestock Grazing Preventing Return of UK and Ireland Rainforests
By Emma Garnett, Researcher A few years back, the president of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales wrote a defence of the meat...
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More Than a Third of Ocean Microplastics Come From Washing Our Clothes
By Mark Sumner, Lecturer in Sustainablity, Fashion and Retail Around 35% of the microplastics contaminating the world’s oceans come from washing our clothes. When washed,...
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Battle to Save Earth’s Wetlands as One-Fifth Lost
By Christian Dunn, Senior Lecturer in Natural Sciences Like so many of the planet’s natural habitats, wetlands have been systematically destroyed over the past 300...
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How To Tell If a Business is Really Net Zero
By Ian Thomson, Director of the Centre for Responsible Business The science is clear: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must peak before 2025 to prevent planetary...
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New Ecuador Reserve Protects 3 Million Acres of Rainforest
The Tarímiat Pujutaí Nuṉka Reserve covers 1,237,395 hectares (3,057,671 acres) of Andean and Amazonian forests in the Morona Santiago province of eastern Ecuador. The area...