19 books every climate activist should read
From Greta Thunberg's No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, here are 19 books on climate change.
Here’s how one UK seed bank is ensuring the survival of 8,900 Australian species
After wildfires devastated huge areas of forest and agricultural land in Australia, the UK's Kew Gardens Millenium Seed Bank are storing seeds in sub-zero temperatures to ensure the survi...
After devastating droughts and bushfires, Australia receives heavy rain
Australia has experienced the biggest sustained rainfall for 30 years in Sydney and the surrounding areas, causing flooding after a summer of extreme heat and deadly bushfires.
Antarctic base records hottest temperature ever
The Esperanza research base, on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, recorded a temperature of 18.3 degrees Celsius, the warmest temperature ever recorded on the continent.
This 'fake wood' is transforming the Canadian furniture industry
A waste management firm in Nova Scotia is giving discarded single-use items new life as synthetic timbers, rails and fence posts.
Next time you fly, could you be boarding a train instead of a plane?
Codeshare agreements are allowing some passengers to swap their plane for a train in a bid to reduce carbon emissions.
The surprising effect aerosols have had on extreme weather in Europe
Scientists at Caltech and JPL have managed to link a change in weather to decreased use of aerosols across Europe and Northern Eurasia.
Here's how climate change could cause insects to destroy our crops
A new study suggests that climate models could vastly under-estimate the effect global warming has on agriculture, as they fail to factor in the increased destruction of insects on crops.
Can European Green Deal make Europe the first climate-neutral continent?
European Green Deal may be setting the pace, but is the EU doing enough? And can the EU governments get behind its Green Deal with the political divisions
Carbon capture and storage will be key to the clean energy transition. Here's why
Carbon capture and storage can reduce emissions and atmospheric CO2 - but to meet our climate goals, we need to scale this technology 100-fold by 2050.
This is what we can really do about climate change, says new report
This report identifies six steps necessary to avoid climate catastrophe.
How Europe’s science offers hope in tackling the climate emergency
From understanding ice melt to building bird-like drones to monitor pollution, 'blue sky' innovations are helping us tackle the climate emergency.