How Japan's renewables-powered Olympics could kick off a global race for clean energy
Japan could become a champion of climate action and environmental protection by committing to 100% renewable power for the 2020 games.
How pollution has caused monsoon rain to decline
Researchers are trying to better understand the past and future of the global monsoon systems that deliver much of the world’s precipitation.
How Iceland's Carbfix Project is turning carbon dioxide into rock
The CarbFix project at the Hellisheidi geothermal power station in Iceland is transforming carbon dioxide into volcanic basalt through carbon sequestration
New climate risks threaten human survival, UN warns
Air pollution, diseases, drought, climate change and earthquakes are creating risks "in a way that we have not anticipated"
Bill Gates: carbon free energy is what we need to tackle climate change
Here are three key solutions we’ll need for the transition to carbon free energy, as shared by Bill Gates
Underwater Arctic forests are expanding with rapid warming
Climate change is altering marine habitats such as kelp forests on a global scale.
Glasgow and Edinburgh race to become the UK’s first net-zero emissions city
Rival Scottish cities Glasgow and Edinburgh are competing to become the first city in the UK to achieve net zero carbon emissions.
Antarctica’s ice is melting 5 times faster than in the 90s
Almost 25 percent of the West Antarctic ice shelf is now thinning, and the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers are losing ice at five times the rate they were in the early 1990s.
Unlimited zero-carbon energy; Europe's trap and other top stories of the week
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Drought-hit Kenya is using camels to tackle malnutrition
Their milk has been dubbed "white gold" by food experts, who say it could help to tackle malnutrition in the region.
Scientists create first ever map of ‘wood wide web’
Scientists have created the first ever map of the underground web of fungi and bacteria which connect trees and forests around the world.
CO2 levels in the atmosphere just reached the highest level in human history
According to sensors at the Mauna Loa Observatory, a research outpost of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, the increasing proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at a...