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COP-WATCH: Day two at COP26 – World leaders speak, India makes a pledge, everyone talks money
Nov 01, 2021
Written by
Marco Magrini
Marco Magrini sums up the action from day two of COP26, during which world leaders and heads of state made statements
The expert climate view from the world's most vulnerable nations: Small island states
Nov 01, 2021
Written by
Peter Thompson, Danny Faure
COP has been described as the 'best last chance' to turn the tide on climate change. As world leaders gather, we hear the expert view from leaders of the small island states that are most vulnerable to rising sea levels…
Opinion: Scotland, the host of COP26, is taking a lead on climate change
Nov 01, 2021
Written by
Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson, chief executive of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS), describes how the host of COP26 is taking a lead on climate
Two China experts on whether the world's largest emitter of CO2 can and will turn the tide
Oct 29, 2021
Written by
Ma Jun, Steve Tsang
Will China's climate pledges be enough to achieve Xi Jinping's vision of a 'beautiful, green China'?
"Paris was the 'what?', Glasgow is the 'how?'" – A climate expert's take on how we turn things around
Oct 27, 2021
Written by
Rachel Kyte
The expert view on COP26
Net Zero: What does it mean, and can we really achieve it?
Oct 26, 2021
Written by
Mark Rowe
Net zero. It’s the phrase that polarises scientists and environmental campaigners like no other. For some, it’s the only game in town, the sole means by which humans will avoid catastrophic climate change and limit global warming to 1.5°C. For…
From COP1 to COP26: Flashes of brilliance; years of disappointment
Oct 25, 2021
Written by
Marco Magrini
As the world gears up for COP26 in Glasgow, Marco Magrini charts the fortunes of the COP summits
Hippos, beavers and humans: friends reunited in modern Britain
Oct 20, 2021
Written by
James Wallace
James Wallace, chief executive of Beaver Trust, shares an unlikely tale of acquaintance between three familiar species
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021: Winners
Oct 14, 2021
Written by
Geographical
The winners of the most hotly anticipated photography competition have been announced
Arctic artist and geographer Nicholas Jones' evocative icebergs
Oct 13, 2021
Written by
Geographical
Artist and geographer Nick Jones was appointed artist in residence for the Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute, and in 2018 voyaged to Greenland and Baffin Island, painting pictures of icebergs, clouds, cliffs and seascapes
A research expedition to uncharted waters in the Indian Ocean
Oct 13, 2021
Written by
Tommy Trenchard
Photojournalist Tommy Trenchard joins a research expedition to the Saya de Malha Bank in the Indian Ocean, where a profusion of marine life waits to be discovered
A marketplace for soil carbon credits could change agriculture
Oct 13, 2021
Written by
Jacob Dykes
So far, carbon offsets have focused mostly on tree-planting. But a marketplace for verified soil carbon credits is emerging, and it could bring significant change to agriculture
Social media is providing crucial data to study and monitor marine species
Oct 07, 2021
Written by
Jacob Dykes
Marine scientists are often too few and too underfunded to study marine species. Social media and citizen science is filling in the gaps
Saving the marmosets under threat from the pet trade
Oct 06, 2021
Written by
Lucy Haslam
Indigenous marmosets are under threat from released pets and forest fragmentation
Tracking the Persian leopard, a cat caught between two warring states
Oct 01, 2021
Written by
Jack Losh
A rare encounter with a leopard in the mountains of Armenia sparked a hunt for the elusive creature, caught between Armenia and Azerbaijan
An autonomous, uncrewed vehicle sets out to map the ocean floor
Sep 30, 2021
Written by
Jacob Dykes
The Saildrone Surveyor, a type of uncrewed autonomous vehicle, has completed its maiden voyage. Its design could enable Saildrone to revolutionise ocean mapping
Australia won't pull its weight on climate change, despite a population embracing solar power
Sep 24, 2021
Written by
Matthew Brace
Australia has the highest per-capita use of rooftop solar power in the world and some of its states and territories are striding ahead with clean-energy initiatives, yet the federal government still keenly supports fossil fuels. So what’s up Down Under?
Listening in: using ecoacoustics to detect invasive species
Sep 15, 2021
Written by
Bryony Cottam
Ecoacoustics – a way to listen in closely to the ecosystem – is being trialled in ponds and streams as a way to detect invasive species
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