Europe’s most effective tool to cut greenhouse gas emissions ‘risks being weakened’ | Emissions trading
Europe’s most effective method of cutting dangerous planet-heating gases risks being weakened after the European Commission proposed an…
Carbon capture is a fig leaf for fossil fuel expansion | Carbon capture and storage (CCS)
Prof Myles Allen and colleagues, in their letter (12 July) on carbon capture and storage (CCS), propose licensing…
Scientists studied pangolin DNA from seven countries and rediscovered a Himalayan species that had been overlooked since 1836
Manus aurita’s museum specimen. Photocredit: Narayan Koju. In 1836, a young British diplomat and naturalist named Brian Houghton…
Shocking Revelations Out of West Antarctica
Image by Cassie Matias. It’s mid-winter but a large area of West Antarctica that should be frozen solid…
‘Send help rather than complain,’ Canada’s Ford tells US as wildfire smoke blankets parts of North America (106)
An unpleasant day in Washingtonpublished at 18:35 BST 18:35 BST Bernd Debusmann JrWhite House reporter I’ve just come…
Mexico earthquake shakes Guatemala and El Salvador
A powerful earthquake in southern Mexico shook nearby countries Guatemala and El Salvador on Friday, with the US…
Biodiversity fears as human-bred hybrid fish integrate into Philippines lake | Invasive species
Escaped ornamental aquarium fish have integrated into a local ecosystem in the Philippines, but scientists say they may…
Rescuers in China race to reach residents trapped by landslide that has killed 8 people
Hundreds of rescuers in southwestern China are racing against incoming thunderstorms to pull residents from the mud and…
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Meet the Black Mambas: In one of South Africa’s regions hardest hit by poaching, 36 unarmed women patrol the frontline and protect endangered rhinos | World News
Across South Africa’s Greater Kruger landscape, a pioneering group of women is challenging conventional ideas about how endangered…
Review: Coffee Sustainability Research is Growing but Fragmented
A recent review of more than two decades of coffee sustainability research found that while the field has…
What Is the AQI? Air Quality Index Scale, What It Is, How to Read It
As more than 800 wildfires burn across Canada, including dozens of out-of-control fires in western Ontario, the resulting…