With the world already experiencing ‘crop failures, intensified natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks’, climate change is a growing threat to the UK’s ability to feed itself ...

Carbon capture hasn’t delivered major climate benefits — and the plants would still emit thousands of tons of pollution.

The Pacific Ocean is warming so quickly that scientists had to find a new method for detecting and predicting El Niño and La Niña events.

In ordinary circumstances coral reefs are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, built slowly by animals that appear to be plants. Each coral polyp houses microscopic algae that convert ...

As the planet warms, many expected ecosystems to change faster and faster. Instead, a massive global study shows that species turnover has slowed by about one-third since the 1970s. Nature’s constant ...

ILULISSAT, Greenland (AP) — Growing up in a village in northern Greenland, Jørgen Kristensen's closest friends were his stepfather's sled dogs. Most of his classmates were dark-haired Inuit; he was ...

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