Just half a degree less global warming would avert food shortage
Governments are dithering over whether to limit climate change to 1.5°C or 2°C, but it seems the stricter target would avoid food shortages and major economic losses
Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef
Fish and seafood are normally fairly environmentally friendly, but it takes so much fuel to catch some species that their carbon footprint is as big as that of red meat
The frogs bouncing back after almost being wiped out by disease
A few amphibian species in Panama are recovering from near-extinction, after apparently evolving resistance to the deadly chytrid fungus
One year until Brexit: 7 big issues that must be solved
The UK must answer difficult questions on climate change, food security, aviation and more as it leaves the EU on 29 March 2019
Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest
Even some of the more remote parts of the Amazon rainforest, far from major rivers, were once densely populated – centuries before the arrival of Europeans
In 30 years Asian-Pacific fish will be gone, and then we’re next
An assessment of Earth’s biodiversity predicts catastrophic losses within decades, with severe knock-on effects for human civilisation like shortages of food
Heavy metal poisoning may be changing birds’ personalities
Great tits exposed to toxic metals like cadmium and lead alter their behaviour, becoming less exploratory and more cautious, suggesting their personalities have been reshaped
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is gobbling up ever more plastic
There's at least four times as much plastic floating in the Pacific as we thought, and a lot of it may have floated over from Japan after the 2011 Tohoku tsunami
Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth
A strange discovery, made by polar explorer Robert Scott a century ago, might explain how complex life survived when the planet froze over into “Snowball Earth”
Huge Australian bushfire was caused by unseasonal freak weather
A fire in New South Wales has destroyed 69 homes, even though Australia’s fire season is over – climate change may be a factor