Environment

Climate change’s impacts are being felt everywhere, from health and food security to extreme weather, sea level rise…

In the autumn of 1977, visitors arriving in Ames, Iowa, encountered something they would never have expected to…

Rodríguez-Eugenio, N., McLaughlin, M. & Pennock, D. Soil Pollution: A Hidden Reality (FAO, 2018). Montanerella, L. et al.…

Three western states in the United States would take less water from the Colorado River under a federal…

Greek firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire in the area of Porto Germeno, some 70 kilometres (45 miles)…

Doug Daws remembers when colossal dust storms would regularly strike his outback hometown, grinding life to a halt…

The UK is bouncing from one type of extreme weather to another this year. This is climate whiplash.…

Water scarcity and urban heat are two separate crises that public infrastructure rarely addresses together. Most public spaces…

Representative Image of Europa’s hidden ocean beneath its icy surface (AI-generated image) Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons,…

Hosepipe bans are already in force across large parts of the UK, and people in the Midlands have…

As July draws to a close, the waning solar heating is increasingly obvious at high latitudes and this…

“Do what you can do tomorrow, today,” says Roy Kim, a 13-year-old Oregon student who has solved the…

‘We’re a bit late on the case, but we are on the case’: Author Fred Pearce on the rise of renewables, a defused population bomb, and letting nature find its own way