2 Sep 20 - The amount of carbon dioxide emitted by Arctic wildfires this year is already 35 per cent higher than the figure for the whole of 2019.
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27 Aug 20 - Humankind has already begun to reshape the biggest available living space on the planet and to leave its mark in the changing oceans.
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26 Aug 20 - Growing up in a greener urban environment boosts children’s intelligence and lowers levels of difficult behaviour, a study has found.
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17 Aug 20 - Earth Overshoot Day – the day each year on which human activity has used up all the resources the planet generates in a year and is moving into debt – has been pushed back by the covid-19 pandemic...
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14 Aug 20 - Although overhunting led to the demise of some prehistoric megafauna after the last ice age, a new study found that the extinction of the woolly rhinoceros may have been caused by climate change.
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14 Aug 20 - As the new coronavirus continues to turn the world upside down, crashing economies and overextending health care systems, epidemiologists and infectious disease experts are increasingly focusing on...
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13 Aug 20 - The past decade was the hottest ever recorded globally, with 2019 either the second or third warmest year on record, as the climate crisis accelerated temperatures upwards worldwide, scientists have...
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13 Aug 20 - PEOPLE who love eating cod might have to change their preferences soon - according to new research published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, global warming may cause a decline in cod populations.
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11 Aug 20 - A trio of US researchers has grim news for people worried about climate science’s worst case outcome. Forget about the other options. The worst case is already happening.
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7 Aug 20 - The human destruction of natural ecosystems increases the numbers of rats, bats and other animals that harbour diseases that can lead to pandemics such as Covid-19, a comprehensive analysis has found
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6 Aug 20 - Satellite observations have found a raft of new emperor penguin breeding sites in the Antarctic - welcome news as the species faces increasing pressure from climate change.
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5 Aug 20 - Are young trees or old forests more important for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it?
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4 Aug 20 - THE COLOUR of the new Scott Base may not be decided, but one thing is clear – the building will be green.
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31 Jul 20 - Microbes buried beneath the sea floor for more than 100 million years are still alive, a new study reveals.
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30 Jul 20 - The biggest science experiment on Earth could avert climate change. But is there still time for nuclear fusion to work?
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29 Jul 20 - While greenhouse gases are warming Earth’s surface, they’re also causing rapid cooling far above us, at the edge of space.
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21 Jul 20 - An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our feet.
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3 Jul 20 - As greenhouse gas emissions soar, ocean sensitivity has quietly helped humanity to slow global heating: the seas have responded by absorbing more and more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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30 Jun 20 - Geologists have linked one of the planet’s most devastating events to the burning of fossil fuels, as ancient coal fires set in train a global extinction wave.
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30 Jun 20 - If microplastics can enter the food web on King George Island, they can probably do so almost anywhere on earth.
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