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”...

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...

Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there are fewer insects than there used to be. Both...

A few years back, the president of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales wrote a defence of the meat industry after a...

Around 35% of the microplastics contaminating the world’s oceans come from washing our clothes. When washed, synthetic clothing sheds tiny plastic fragments (typically shorter...

Like so many of the planet’s natural habitats, wetlands have been systematically destroyed over the past 300 years. Bogs, fens, marshes and swamps have...

The science is clear: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must peak before 2025 to prevent planetary warming exceeding 1.5℃. The solution is simple: stop doing...

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...

Many countries are staring into a debt crisis as the world faces multiple challenges with supply-chain disruptions, the Russia-Ukraine war and high inflation. The United...

According to a new study signed by 35 scientists from all over the world, more than 1 million square miles of what remains of...

As the use of recycled materials is normalised, we must examine its source and ask who is collecting it, in what conditions is it...

In the next hour, 103,000 trees will be cut down. 1,140 of these trees will be just for toilet paper. Only 42,000 new trees will be planted.

Climate change is negatively affecting mental health. So search for happiness among the gloom — signs that the situation could improve, and positive action we can all take.

Forget 2050 climate targets — the world, its people and its wildlife are suffering RIGHT NOW because of rising sea levels and global temperatures.

A young single mum has launched a sustainable business that puts money in the pockets of destitute people in trouble-torn Sri Lanka.