Drought, water shortages and crop failures: how does the medieval warm period compare with today?
A heatwave lasting four months, followed by water shortages and crop failures. This is England in the 13th…
Wildfires, heatwaves and air-con: Europe’s climate reality
From wildfires in Ireland to deadly heatwaves in France and soaring demand for air conditioning in Dublin, experts…
More than 20,000 evacuated after intense wildfire in France | Wildfires
More than 20,000 people, including thousands of tourists from campsites and other holiday accommodation, have been evacuated as…
Arizona hub to process 25,000 tpa of e-waste for rare earth recovery
Millions of discarded laptops, server drives, and electric motors sitting in waste streams hold the key to North…
Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America | Environment
The low rumbling grows louder until a huge harvester crashes into the open, dragging a 15-metre trunk of…
Arctic: Climate change is making Beavers expand into Canada’s Arctic, where their dams are changing the landscape
North American beavers began colonising parts of Arctic in 2008. (Getty images) Beavers who are normally found in…
Thousands flee as wildfires hit France, Italy and Spain
Wildfires have raged through Sicily, southwestern France and central Spain, sparking thousands of evacuations and claiming the life…
California deploys 400 goats and sheep as ‘firefighters’ to eat an invasive weed fuelling wildfires and threatening native ecosystems | World News
As California prepares for another intense wildfire season, an unlikely team of firefighters has taken to the fields…
Long-lost coral reefs rediscovered off the coast of Africa
Some 60 years ago scientists documented a coral reef off the coast of Benin in West Africa that…
Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe | Drought
Extreme heat supercharged by the climate crisis is sucking Europe dry in summer and intensifying the drought hitting…
Thousands flee as wildfires hit France, Italy and Spain
Wildfires have raged through Sicily, southwestern France and central Spain, sparking thousands of evacuations and claiming the life…
Vietnam’s coffee boom fueled by decades of deforestation, report finds
Decades of unchecked deforestation for coffee production has devastated Vietnam’s Central Highland forests, according to a…