Heatwaves: why British trees are shedding branches and dying
If you visit the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, on the edge of London, you will see a…
US chemical accidents rising as Trump rolls back protections, report finds | Trump administration
The number of US chemical accidents is rising just as the Trump administration guts protections against the disasters,…
Species’ ingenious survival strategies no match for human destruction, red list reveals | IUCN red list of endangered species
Life has colonised every corner of the planet by evolving ingenious survival strategies but these are increasingly being…
Building a circular economy with the EU Ecolabel
Europe’s circular economy transition is changing what is expected from goods, services and businesses. Products need to last…
Western Europe records hottest June as heatwaves surge
Western Europe this year experienced its hottest June on record as a searing heatwave swept across a continent…
Typhoon Bavi mapped: Taiwan and China brace for the ‘most powerful storm in years’ after floods kill 39
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
The Invisible Heart of Modern Life Is the Garbage Worker
Simon Paré-Poupart begins Trash!, a memoir of his years as a garbage collector, by explaining why he started…
Future-proofing interpretations of the Paris Agreement’s limit of well below 2 °C
The Paris Agreement requires global warming to remain ‘well below 2 °C’ relative to pre-industrial levels while pursuing efforts…
European countries top ‘scorecard’ on climate progress while US slips to 27th | Environment
Much of the world has made encouraging strides in reducing toxic problems such as water and air pollution…
Disturbance regimes drive widespread plant range disequilibrium in Europe alongside climate change
Plot and environmental data We retrieved 1,903,668 vegetation plots and 40,468,042 observation records from the European Vegetation Archive…
Assessing corporate sustainability with large language models: evidence from Europe
ML framework overview Our end-to-end ML framework operates as follows (Fig. 1b; see the “Methods” and the Supplementary Information for…
Homes need more renewable energy tech – here’s how to make sure retrofits avoid creating e-waste
The UK has some of the oldest houses in Europe. Half of the homes in England are rated…