Environmental

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of Senegal to see an innovative land recovery projec...

When plants sense danger like a nearby herbivore ready to take a bite, calcium erupts within their systems.

Arctic Ice argues its rare, pure product can be part of Greenland’s green transition and greater independence

Scientists think we need to pay attention to a measure of heat and humidity – and it’s edging closer to the limits of human survivability

Due to the problematic degradation properties of plastics, the decomposition of plastic results in the formation of numerous microplastics (MPs), less than 5 mm in diameter. These MPs enter the soil and the ocean, eventually passing through the air, water, ...

In terms of architecture, it’s possible that the features that consistently produce minor stress responses in our bodies are the most insidious, precisely because they often go unnoticed.

Floods, freezes and heatwaves threaten seed production as farmers scramble to produce strains that resist climate chaos

City councillors pass motion to let community groups, charities and neighbours cultivate fruit and veg

I read this story on Canary Media with interest – “Solarpunk is going mainstream. This couple’s $1M Kickstarter proves it. Canary chats with the co-creators of the forthcoming video gam…

Researchers’ analysis of DNA suggests housing circumstances ‘get under the skin’ and are associated with significant health consequences

Sam Woods, head of the Bank’s financial stability watchdog, says lenders have only shown they can survive ‘slow burn’ changes to temperatures

A small fraction of tropical tree leaves already pass the threshold, scientists estimate, and that number could grow under worst-case climate models.

In our warming world, kids are running out of places to play safely.

Cities are the first line of defense in humanity’s battle against deadly heat. Bloomberg Green’s Hot Cities series looks at changes some of the world’s hottest cities are making to protect their people from extreme temperatures.

Wildfires have also engulfed popular Greek tourist destinations such as Corfu, Evia and Rhodes.

Armed with new technology, botanists are proposing what was once thought impractical: reviving long-lost plant species by using seeds from dried specimens in collections. The challenges remain daunting, but researchers are now searching for the best de-extinction candidates.

Arizona will not approve new housing construction on the fast-growing edges of its largest city that rely on groundwater thanks to years of overuse and a multi-decade drought worsened by the climate crisis

Dutch study identifies several examples of corvids’ ‘amazing’ ability to adapt to the urban environment

A new study suggests a link between past climate changes and a drop in the size of the human brain – an adaptive response that emerges in an analysis of climate records and human remains over a 50,000-year period.