Climate action can feel slow – but the fastest energy leap in history has begun
It’s increasingly common to hear from experts and the general public that the global shift away from fossil…
King tides, flooding, storms: the ocean that was once my playground and my teacher is now the source of my greatest fear | Cynthia Houniuhi
I often talk about my childhood in the Reef Islands, a special place on the far eastern seas…
A 30-Year Study Reveals a Hidden Climate Driver Heating Antarctica’s Core
Relay Station, an unmanned weather station in the interior of East Antarctica. Unmanned stations are designed to survive…
Commercial fisherman caught trawling through protected marine reserve
The coastline near Kahurangi Marine Reserve. Photo: Supplied/ Wikipedia – ‘Pseudopanax’ A commercial fisherman caught out trawling an…
Water company bans US billionaire’s new lake being filled during hosepipe ban
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Recyclers call for end to 30,000 tonnes of mining tyres being buried every year
A new facility in the heart of Western Australia’s iron ore mining industry has come up with a…
‘Unpaid wages, searing heat, long hours’: why workers are quitting the world’s largest renewable energy park | Global development
A month into his new job at the world’s largest renewable energy park in Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch,…
Introducing War on Climate, a new series that explores how conflict interacts with environmental issues around the globe
This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.…
Invasive Barnacle Species Detected In The Arctic Shows The Region’s Defences Are Failing Under Climate Change
An intruder has been detected in the Canadian Arctic for the first time, and it’s not good news…
US environment agency could end reporting of greenhouse gas emissions | US news
The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed on Friday a rule to end a mandatory program requiring 8,000 facilities…
Corals trade growth for survival as oceans warm
Coral reefs are under heavy strain. Heatwaves, pollution, and overfishing chip away at their health year after year.…
Lakeshore shallows can be biodiversity hotspots – but warming is changing their complex ecology
The 19th-century American naturalist Henry David Thoreau described the small freshwater lake at Walden as “Earth’s eye” –…