Planes scoop up water from River Seine to battle wildfire near Paris
French firefighters are battling a huge blaze in a forest just south of Paris as a devastating heatwave…
The Trump admin’s biofuels policy could be a disaster for the world’s rainforests
The modern soybean is one of the world’s miracle technologies, capable of cheaply, efficiently, and healthfully supplying protein…
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A group of researchers has suggested a way to reduce the possible effects of a strong El Nino…
The Richest 10% Cause up to $5.7 Trillion in Environmental Damage Each Year
A new analysis estimates that the world’s highest-consuming 10% generate trillions of dollars in environmental damage each year…
A manifesto for Sustainability Robotics
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Giving nature a say: why Scottish marine scientists appointed the ocean to their board | Global development
In a boardroom in an office building in Oban, a picturesque town on the west coast of Scotland,…
Most UK media reports on June heatwave failed to mention climate crisis | Extreme heat
Most of the UK media stories about the record-breaking heatwave that struck in June failed to mention the…
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…
Who is ‘stealing’ Bali’s water? How tourism siphoned off a prized resource | Water
I Putu Partayasa pushes his fingers into the soil as he squats at the edge of a rice…
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…
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…
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…