Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Climate
“Sometimes it is almost impossible not to feel hopeless and broken,” says the climate scientist Ruth Cerezo-Mota. “After all the flooding, fires, and droughts of the last three years worldwide,…
Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) above preindustrial levels this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic…
Heat waves are rising not just on land. Globally, marine heat waves are registering a growing trend. A recent study titled Future Projections for the Tropical Indian Ocean has found…
A new study reveals that cooperation by bumblebees isn’t simply a result of accumulated individual efforts. Rather, these miniature-brained creatures are not just hard-working pollinators, but also show signs of…
Oil and gas equipment intended to cut methane emissions is preventing scientists from accurately detecting greenhouse gases and pollutants, a satellite image investigation has revealed. Energy companies operating in countries…
Forest mammals live in a multidimensional space which they negotiate in myriad, ingenious ways. Many of them operate as much in the vertical dimension as in the horizontal, yet only…
According to French government sources, nine EU countries will meet in Brussels at the start of the week to discuss the impact of the UK’s decision to ban bottom fishing…
A team of researchers led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig University (UL), and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has investigated the motivation and…
Thousands of trees have been planted on a fell after it was bought by a community interest company that plans to turn it into a nature reserve. Sally Phillips bought…
Mangroves are one of most important ecosystems on the world’s coasts. They absorb the impact of storms, prevent erosion, provide food and safety for fish and other animals and can…
After three years of fiery eruptions, experts are now confident that Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula has entered a new fiery phase. A fiery beast has awoken from centuries of slumber. The…
Here we reveal the carbon footprint of our major travel methods. The most striking revelation is how very inefficient and polluting it is to travel alone in a big fuel…
Moving away from physical field and farm boundaries is an interesting concept. See excerpt below: Grazing sheep are being fitted with collars to help them create nesting environments for threatened…
8 more satellite-tagged hen harriers vanish – Natural England ‘forgets’ to mention them in latest press release On Saturday, Natural England published a press release providing details about this year’s…
Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows Detailed analysis finds plant diets lead to 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than meat-rich ones Eating a vegan…
The critical ability of wild bumblebees to keep their colonies at the right temperature is seriously damaged by the weedkiller glyphosate, research has revealed. Glyphosate is the most widely used…
In Sierra Leone, local fishers and foreign trawlers battle for their catch Overfishing isn’t a new problem in West Africa, where industrial fishing boats from across the world harvest massive…
This will happen. We’ve put it in here for educational reasons. Its a long way away. Humans will be long extinct anyway. Some of the science in here is ammunition…