Environment and Climate Change
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A Decade After BP Oil Disaster, Gulf of Mexico Still Shows Scars
Scientists say large swaths of the Gulf may never be the same. Matt Haines VoA London-based oil company BP, which…
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Australia Bay Seafoods loses export licence amid legal fight with NT Government
Australia Bay Seafoods (ABS) is taking the Government to court over plans to merge two fisheries, claiming there is no…
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Jane Goodall: humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19
Humanity will be “finished” if we fail to drastically change our food systems in response to the coronavirus pandemic and…
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The African water wars are here: Egypt and Ethiopia could go to war over river Nile
Away from the chatter of a global pandemic, in the long-lost areas of the African continent, there is a war…
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What Modern Sustainability Could Learn From a 200-Year-Old American Tradition
While many today think of Thoreau’s memoir as a paean to a solitary existence, those who study and teach Thoreau…
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The rush to claim an undersea mountain range
The winner will change maps forever. Martha Henriques BBC One of the most mysterious mountain ranges in the world is…
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Siberia heatwave was ‘almost impossible’ without climate change, scientists say
A recent heatwave in Siberia that saw temperature records tumble as the region sweltered in 38-Celsius highs was “almost impossible”…
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Coalition backs ‘cloud-brightening’ trial on Great Barrier Reef to tackle global heating
A government-backed research program to make the Great Barrier Reef more resilient to global heating will spend $4.7m this financial year…
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Locust invasion in Yemen stokes food insecurity fears
AL-MUKALLA: Locust swarms have swept over farms in central, southern and eastern parts of Yemen, ravaging crops and stoking fears…
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Why This Year Is Our Last, Best Chance for Saving the Oceans
The former marine biologist runs a scuba-diving center on the Australian island’s east coast, and rhapsodizes about the wonders of…
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Climate explained: what the world was like the last time carbon dioxide levels were at 400ppm
The world was about 3℃ warmer and sea levels were higher than today. James Shulmeister The Conversation We know how…
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How humans are altering the tides of the oceans
In the mid-2000s Talke was a postdoctoral scholar at Utrecht University, studying the river Ems that empties into the North…
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Rapid Arctic meltdown in Siberia alarms scientists
“It just felt like you couldn’t breathe at all,” said Deyev, 32, who lives in Irkutsk, a Siberian region along…
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Climate crisis: Temperature of 38C thought to be highest ever recorded in Arctic circle
A temperature of 38C (100.4F) has been recorded in a Siberian town in what is thought to be a new…
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A feast for the ages and a dip in -2c water, celebrating the solstice in Antarctica
After weeks of living without sun and enduring temperatures of around -20 degrees Celsius, Antarctic expeditioners are more than ready…
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We know that climate change is caused by human activity, but pinning down exactly who is responsible is trickier than it might seem.
With every passing year of inaction, the emissions cuts needed to limit global warming to relatively safe levels grow steeper…
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