From coral bleaching and rising sea levels to increased marine heatwaves and more powerful storms, climate change is destroying our ocean ecosystems - harming people just as much as the f...

Olivia Rosane · EcoWatch 16 Jan 2020

Global Risks

Biodiversity loss puts our food supplies and medical care at risk. It must be stopped

Humans rely on nature more than they realise. Food and medical research will also be a victim from biodiversity loss. But it's not too late.

Peter Giger 15 Jan 2020

Australia

Australia bushfires: 5 things to know about the crisis

Australia's 2019 bushfires have ripped through the country. Here are five things you need to know about them, from CO2 levels to the destruction of nature.

Rosamond Hutt 08 Jan 2020

Biodiversity

Why nature is the most important stakeholder of the coming decade

As businesses realign themselves ethically, it is time for a new, rights-based approach to stakeholders - one that prioritizes the most important one of all. Here's a guide

Tariq Al-Olaimy 07 Jan 2020

Climate Change

England’s beavers are back, and they've already made a big impact

Beavers were hunted to extinction in England centuries ago but have returned in a river in the southwest where researchers are trying to understand if they have a positive or negative eff...

Katharine Rooney 06 Jan 2020

Global Health

6 surprising places scientists are searching for new drugs

From the bottom of the sea, to the desert, scientists are looking for antibiotics and anticancer drugs in the most unlikely places.

Linamaria Pintor Escobar and Alba Iglesias Vilches · The Conversation 20 Dec 2019

Climate Change

This Pacific island has banned fishing to allow the marine ecosystem to recover

Palau has been practising "bul" for centuries – and now it’s the philosophy behind its huge new protected marine area.

Kate Whiting 11 Dec 2019

Future of Food

50% of all land in the world is used to produce food

While livestock takes up 77% of the world’s agricultural land, it only produces 18% of the world’s calories and 37% of total protein.

Hannah Ritchie · Our World in Data 11 Dec 2019

Biodiversity

Spying on whales: an extract from Nick Pyenson's new book

Nick Pyenson's book, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures, explores the incredible life of the planet's biggest creature. This is an extract t...

Nick Pyenson 29 Nov 2019

Climate Change

Greenhouse gases hit a new record in 2018, says U.N.

As world leaders prepare to meet at a U.N. climate change summit it Spain, new figures show the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at a new high.

Emma Farge · Reuters 26 Nov 2019

Biodiversity

There's been an apocalypse going on right under our noses - but we can still save their world

Over the past 50 years, an “unnoticed apocalypse” may have killed off half the planet’s insects. Here's what you can do to help save the rest.

Johnny Wood 25 Nov 2019

Water

Plants will make future river flooding way worse

In a new study scientists found that plants regulate the amount of gas they consume, limiting the release of water through evaporation - but what are the effects of this on the wider envi...

Brian Bell · Futurity 15 Nov 2019

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Biodiversity

One trillion trees - World Economic Forum launches plan to help nature and the climate

Why 2020 is the year to reset humanity’s relationship with nature

Europe’s lakes and rivers are under threat - but it’s not too late to save them

2019 was the oceans' hottest year on record

Biodiversity loss puts our food supplies and medical care at risk. It must be stopped

Australia bushfires: 5 things to know about the crisis

Why nature is the most important stakeholder of the coming decade

England’s beavers are back, and they've already made a big impact

6 surprising places scientists are searching for new drugs

This Pacific island has banned fishing to allow the marine ecosystem to recover

50% of all land in the world is used to produce food

Spying on whales: an extract from Nick Pyenson's new book

Greenhouse gases hit a new record in 2018, says U.N.

There's been an apocalypse going on right under our noses - but we can still save their world

Plants will make future river flooding way worse

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