Environment

REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo Global temperatures will continue to warm over the next five years, and may even temporarily rise to more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the World…

Matt Davey of the University of Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences samples green algae on Lagoon Island in Antarctica Antarctica conjures images of an unbroken white wilderness but blooms of…

An environmental activist holds a banner as Greenpeace has called on Poland’s conservative government to focus on its citizens’ wellbeing and the environment rather than on the GDP growth as…

Greenland’s ice sheet shrank by more than at any time since record-taking began last year, according to a study published on Wednesday that showed the risk that climate change could…

Carbon dioxide emissions could fall by the largest amount since World War Two this year as the coronavirus outbreak brings economies to a virtual standstill, according to the chair of…

The entrance of the international seed bank Svalbard Global Seed Vault A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples contains one million…

Students protest during a climate school strike in London Many wealthy nations are letting the world’s younger generations down by failing to curb planet-warming emissions, a UN-backed report said on…

Climate change could expand farmland globally by almost a third, a study by international researchers found this week Kenya’s livestock herders planting chilli peppers, Pakistan’s mountain farmers rearing fish and…

When scientist Peter Soroye first saw the figures showing estimated bumblebee populations in North America had fallen by nearly 50% in a single generation, he thought it must be a…