8 deadliest deserts on the planet and some of the dangerous wildlife you’ll find lurking there
From temperatures that push the human body to its limits to landscapes where rain can be absent for…
The policy relevance of climate-change scenarios for biodiversity research
Pörtner, H.-O. et al. Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts. Science 380, eabl4881…
Mood-boosting benefits of birdsong drowned out by traffic noise, study finds | Birds
Hearing the trill or whistle of a bird while going about daily life is well known to boost…
Photos: Scientists take to the skies and spot more than 2,000 species at marine monument
THE TAKEAWAY The New England Aquarium observed more than 2,000 animals during an aerial survey. At the start…
Call to ban marmot hunting in France as campaigners say they are ‘killed for fun’ | France
Animal rights campaigners are gearing up for protests and petitions aimed at persuading the French government to ban…
1.3m plastic bottles collected in a day in global volunteer ocean cleanup | Plastics
More than 1.3m plastic bottles were collected from beaches, rivers and waterways last year during the world’s largest…
Global ocean temperatures hit record high as El Nino intensifies | Climate Crisis News
Copernicus warns of ‘unprecedented strain’ on world’s oceans as El Nino and climate change drive up sea surface…
A Manhattan-sized ice island just broke free from Greenland
Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has documented a major change at Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, where a 76…
Land degradation is costing far more than restoring: UN deputy chief
Speaking at the high-level opening of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) meeting in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Ms. Mohammed…
Vulnerability to wildfire smoke is in our genes, thanks to an evolutionary quirk
When the sky becomes orange and hazy from wildfire smoke, modern humans are at greater risk than our…
Forces deep inside Earth helped Antarctica freeze before the Arctic
Scientists have found a new explanation for why Antarctica became covered in ice millions of years before the…
We finally have some encouraging news on Great Barrier Reef water quality
Imagine a plume of brown sediment is washed off the land into Queensland rivers and carried out to…