Heatwaves are dangerous but they’re also a useful warning of what needs to change
As another heatwave reaches the UK, it is worth asking an uncomfortable question: is there any positive side…
Scientists Propose Dimming Sun to Combat El Niño
Last month, the United Nations warned that this year’s El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern characterized by…
Around 252 million years ago, volcanoes across what is now Siberia erupted repeatedly for more than a million years, releasing perhaps 100,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and helping wipe out roughly 90 per cent of marine species in the deadliest mass extinction Earth has ever known
The end-Permian extinction was not a single volcano exploding on one bad day. It was a long volcanic…
British couple named among 13 killed in Spanish wildfires | Wildfires
A British couple have been named among the 13 people killed by wildfires in Spain, as authorities race…
The Late Ordovician extinction 443 million years ago struck in two pulses driven by opposite climate extremes: the first came as the planet cooled, glaciers spread and sea levels collapsed; then the ice retreated, the seas warmed and lost their oxygen, killing many of the species that had survived the cold
The Late Ordovician extinction, close to the Ordovician-Silurian boundary about 443 million years ago, is usually read as…
Scientists Are Testing a New Underwater Habitat Where Humans Can Live on the Ocean Floor
The ocean covers 71% of the planet, and humans have colonized only a small fraction of it. That…
Europe Heatwave Deaths: Europe death toll tops 10,000 during late-June heatwave; scientists blame human-caused climate change
More than 10,000 excess deaths were recorded across Europe during the record-breaking heatwave that swept through western parts…
‘As if a hurricane had passed’: Puerto Ricans at breaking point after weeks without water | Puerto Rico
Jonathan Collazo owns two restaurants in a bustling section of San Juan, which has been plagued by water…
First came the dead fish, then invasive plants. A year later and Lake Suchitlán’s pollution remains a mystery | Water
From the village of Copapayo, Noel Avalos recalls the morning they ran to the shore of Lake Suchitlán,…
Ocean warming has been shrinking marine animals for 450 million years, massive study reveals |
Marine animals do not just struggle when ocean temperatures spike, they actually shrink, and a massive new study…
Plan to restore nature in England by 2030 criticised as ‘completely insufficient’ | Environment policy
The government’s plan to protect and restore nature in England by 2030 has been condemned as “pathetic” and…
$5,000 fine issued as illegal dumping spreads across Australia: ‘Massive problem’
Illegal dumping is rife across Australia, with councils and state authorities desperate to put an end to it.…