Climate


Hammans shut down in drought-stricken Morocco

Hammans shut down in drought-stricken Morocco

ByStuart ButlerApr 14, 2024
Morocco is in the grip of an unprecedented drought and to save water the government has taken the controversial step of closing hammams.
M&S aim to stop cows farting

M&S aim to stop cows farting

ByStuart ButlerApr 10, 2024
British high street chain, M&S, aims to reduce the methane produced from farting and burping cows by changing their diet.
Controlled fires are now part of land management in many countries

Fires, forest and our lands – an Indigenous ecological perspective

ByGeographical StaffApr 8, 2024
Western science has a lot to learn from Indigenous perspectives on how to manage fire says Hillary Renick, President of the California Indian Land Institute
Report paints a mixed picture for worldwide deforestation rates

Report paints a mixed picture for worldwide deforestation rates

ByStuart ButlerApr 5, 2024
Report into worldwide deforestation rates reveals dramatic declines in Brazil and Colombia, but that worldwide deforestation rates have risen.
Polygonal tundra landscape in Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula

A warmer Arctic could have a big impact on Earth’s northernmost rivers

ByBryony CottamApr 4, 2024
A warmer Arctic could have a big impact on Earth’s northernmost rivers
UN report reveals colossal levels of food waste

UN report reveals colossal levels of food waste

ByStuart ButlerMar 28, 2024
A new UN report reveals that worldwide over a billion meals a day are wasted and that this is taking a significant environmental toll.
Immune cells in the brain, microglia, are damaged by heat stress

Climate change is radically affecting our brain health

Neuroscientist turned environmental journalist Clayton Aldern reports an unreported crisis in neurological health linked to climate chang
An illustration of Rafflesia banaoana, one of the rarest species in the genus

Saving raffelsia – the world’s largest flower

ByBryony CottamMar 21, 2024
It smells of rotting flesh, spends most of its life as a parasite inside another plant and, when it blooms, it’s the world’s largest flower.
Food production generates the equivalent of 31 per cent of all greenhouse gases

Food for thought: feeding the world accounts for a third of human-made carbon emissions

ByMarco MagriniMar 18, 2024
For Marco Magrini the agricultural transition is as important and urgent as the energy transition
Wood logs burning in a stove

Mums for Lungs wants wood-burning stoves outlawed

ByGraeme GourlayMar 14, 2024
A campaigning group of mothers is calling for a ban on wood-burning stoves as evidence mounts on their threat to health
Extraction of Earth’s natural resources could soar by 60 per cent

Extraction of Earth’s natural resources could soar by 60 per cent

ByStuart ButlerMar 6, 2024
New report warns that by 2060 extraction of the Earth’s natural resources will soar by 60 per cent putting climate change goals at risk.
Climate change affects rural women more than men

Climate change affects rural women more than men

ByStuart ButlerMar 6, 2024
A new report shows that the effects of climate change on people living in rural areas varies depending on gender, age and wealth.
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