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Rosebank oil field: how will it affect the climate, wildlife and energy prices?

Rosebank oil field: how will it affect the climate, wildlife and energy prices?

ByCharlotte HallSep 29, 2023
The newly approved Rosebank North Sea oil field has sparked controversy - but how will it really impact gas prices, wildlife and the climate?
An adult Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito species responsible for most malaria deaths

Could a new gene-editing technique be a major breakthrough in the battle against malaria?

ByBryony CottamSep 23, 2023
Progress on reducing malaria deaths stalled ten years ago. However, researchers are optimistic about a new way to eradicate deadly mosquitoes
Farmer spraying pesticides

UK fails to ban 36 pesticides including 13 classed as highly hazardous

ByStuart ButlerSep 20, 2023
Since leaving the EU the UK has failed to ban 36 pesticides, with 13 considered highly hazardous that have already been banned by the EU
A rare centipede from the genus Eupolybothrus that lives in the soil

More than half the world’s biodiversity lives in our soil

ByBryony CottamSep 18, 2023
New research on soil biodiversity reveals that we've greatly underestimated the number of species that live underground
Southern white rhino with calf

Ambititous plan to release 2,000 white rhino into the wild

ByStuart ButlerSep 14, 2023
13% of the worlds southern white rhinos have been bought by African Parks to be released back into the wild
The radar mast dominates the Lincolnshire flatlands

Lincolnshire’s silent sentry near RAF Stenigot

ByRory WalshSep 11, 2023
Rory Walsh visits a Lincolnshire landmark that shaped the sky and once provided radar for RAF Stenigot
Sharyn and Tom Wotton (aka Swampy Tom), Wandella, New South Wales, Australia, January 2020 (from the series Portraits in Ashes)

Gideon Mendel: Portraits of devastation

ByGeographical StaffSep 8, 2023
South African born 'struggle photographer' Gideon Mendel hauntingly captures the aftermath of fires and floods around the world
Emperor penguins

90% of emperor penguin colonies could be wiped out by end of the century

ByStuart ButlerSep 7, 2023
Scientists have warned emperor penguins are in serious trouble with 10,000 babies killed in 2022 due to melting sea ice
An ice-coring field camp on the Greenland ice sheet, ten kilometres from Summit Station

Science at the Summit – the research centre high on Greenland’s ice sheet

On Greenland ice sheet scientists and support staff carry out cutting-edge research into everything from climate change to particle physics
Ship in the Panama Canal

Geo Explainer: Can the Panama Canal survive drought?

ByChloe SmithSep 6, 2023
After the driest 2 years on record, with hundreds of ships waiting, drought is affecting this vital shipping route
Blackpool tower and beach

Britain’s top ten dirtiest beaches

A study has revealed the ten ‘dirtiest’ beaches across the UK with sites in Bradford, Blackpool and North Somerset topping the chart. 
Deforestation in Borneo

Can Indonesia go green in time?

ByMark RoweSep 4, 2023
Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation and largest coal producer, has committed to a net-zero future. Great news for the environment? Conservationists are sceptical
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