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…
Québec’s Bill 9 doesn’t just ban symbols — it bans obligations
As of Sept. 1, Muslim students at Québec’s post-secondary colleges, known as CEGEPs, will have no place to…
Security Council LIVE: Can critical minerals fuel peace and prosperity instead of conflict?
The Security Council met Wednesday in New York to debate critical minerals — the lithium, cobalt and copper…
Warm ocean water is melting a giant Antarctic glacier from below. Scientists want to stop it with an 80km underwater curtain |
Scientists are checking if an underwater curtain is what will keep an Antarctic glacier from slowly melting due…
Arctic bobtail squid seen alive in natural habitat for first time ever
Stretching for 972,000 km2, Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest national park on the planet. But, despite its epic…
The largest waterfall on Earth is hidden beneath the ocean between Greenland and Iceland, where cold water plunges more than three kilometres down the seafloor at 3.5 million cubic metres per second
The surface of the Denmark Strait gives no sign of a three-kilometre drop below. Between Greenland and Iceland,…
China’s world-leading renewable megabases rely on coal-heavy transmission
Beijing: China is building more large-scale wind and solar than the rest of the world combined, but inadequate…
The Aral Sea’s disappearance became one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters, but one corner refused to die |
In 1960, the Aral Sea ranked among the largest lakes on the planet, spreading across the border of…
It cost £2.1bn to divert a river in Brazil’s outback. So where has all the water gone? | Global development
A concrete canal cutting through the Caatinga scrubland feeds a surface reservoir two and a half miles from…
In cities, summer nights reveal the one thing running air conditioners at full blast can never fix, and it has nothing to do with the unit itself
Step outside at midnight in Phoenix or Houston on a July night and something feels wrong. It is…
Report Exposes Decades of Climate Polluters Pushing the ‘Fraud of Clean Natural Gas’
Gas companies knew about the climate harms of natural gas much earlier than previously thought and downplayed them…
Global assessment shows blue carbon wealth dominated by ocean processes and unevenly distributed across countries
Data sources and spatial harmonization We compiled updated datasets on blue carbon ecosystem extent, annual carbon sequestration, biological…