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Some European cities have poor tree shade cover and this is ramping up heat for their citizens.
Pistachio production will require even more water use by 2050 if temperatures and greenhouse gas levels continue to rise.
Developing a new material is only the first step. Convincing an industry built around traditional textiles to adopt it is a very different challenge.
Glacier melt is partly responsible for the disaster along the border with Tibet and Nepal. An expert explains why this is a growing issue for the world.
Burnham’s plan to tackle criminal fly-tipping gangs needs to go further.
One disaster can create the conditions for the next.
A group of 50 Himalayan hazard experts is providing rapid analysis of the event. Here’s what they’ve found so far.
In poetry, speculation might help us make sense of what it means to live with an uncertain climate future.
Most climate aid arrives after the disaster. A handful of countries are proving it doesn’t have to.
Tags on these deep-diving whales are providing vital data from places research ships struggle to reach.
Recovery time between climate disasters makes a huge difference to the consequences affecting local people.
Climate change does not affect every form of transport in the same way. And the result is more than just cancelled journeys.
There is something apocalyptic in this performance.
El Niño summers can mean less rain overall, but more extreme daily rainfall.
How big policy areas like crime, education, transport and energy have changed.
In poetry, speculation might help us make sense of what it means to live with an uncertain climate future.
Green hydrogen production is, in effect, a way of bottling renewable energy.
Data beats greenwashing. How a simple QR code connects you to a massive European database that exposes fake sustainability claims in seconds.
England’s event duration monitoring system records when a sewage overflow starts and stops. But duration alone tells us very little about the pollution released.
A volcanic eruption in 536 kicked off ‘the worst year to be alive’.
Ecologists thought the largest trees would be most vulnerable to drought. The reality is more complex, with some forest giants unexpectedly resilient.
An ecologist explains what happens next.
The British landscape has been stripped of many of its bogs and wetlands in the last three centuries.
More northern Europeans are thinking about adding air conditioning. But there’s a lot to consider before making a decision.