Planet Earth is sick – and getting sicker, according to a new Planetary Health Check. The report, by Germany’s Potsdam Institute, finds that humans – like a drunken driver heedlessly  ru…

Scientists are getting a better handle on how fast Greenland's ice is flowing out to sea. Old models that used Antarctica as a baseline were way off the mark.

Scientific Reports - Global impacts of heat and water stress on food production and severe food insecurity

Summers lost to fire and smoke. Biblical floods. Dying forests. Retreating coasts. Economic turmoil and political unrest. It’s going to be a weird century. Here’s what it will look like—and how...

Scott Morrison's decision will continue eating away at any remaining vestiges of his authority from this moment on.

Exclusive: Decision to make episode about natural destruction available only on iPlayer angers programme-makers

Sheesh, I was just going to go to bed, but then this had to come out. The Guardian just picked up a new study today from the Elsevier journal Biological Conservation by researchers at the University...

When Peter Singer first published Animal Liberation in 1975, he wasn’t aware of climate change. But the new book, Animal Liberation Now, argues eating plants will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

Remember, people, this is an experiment we haven’t run before, and the test tube we’re using is the whole planet.

They're building the world’s first octopus farm. Here's how we can stop them:

The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months...

The upper levels of the ocean have never been this hot. Blame the end of La Niña and the ever-present heating effect of climate change.

Two climate scientists have issued a dire warning about the consequences the planet might face if humans did not limit the global temperature rise.

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Mukhtar Babayev is named president-in-waiting of UN climate summit to be held in November

Analysis released at Cop27 climate summit shows plans would thwart chances of keeping global heating to 1.5C

Surveys suggest that wet weather and habitat deterioration are among the causes of devastating population declines, but there are ways to help

Analysis of Pacific Ocean sediments shows doubling atmospheric CO2 might raise Earth's temperature by up to 14 degrees, exceeding IPCC predictions, with historical data indicating significant future...

NOAA warned in late June that half of the world's oceans may experience marine heat wave conditions by September.

More than 800,000 people were forced to relocate in and around Beijing after nearly 30 inches of rain triggered some of the worst flooding in the city’s history.

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Recent studies suggest the duck-billed mammal is not as widespread as thought, in part due to centuries of hunting and habitat loss.

Unusual warm temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean, linked to climate change, are “deeply troubling,” scientists say.

The extreme flooding in Slovenia has caused millions of dollars worth of damage and killed at least three people.

Companies are developing technology that sucks carbon dioxide out of the air. But scientists say it can't be scaled up fast enough.

PDF | After 50 years, there is still an ongoing debate about the Limits to Growth (LtG) study. This paper recalibrates the 2005 World3‐03 model. The... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

Climate change, deforestation and other human threats are driving the rainforest towards a tipping point of sustainability. Researchers are racing to chart the Amazon’s future.

This crucial fertiliser component is mostly found in just five countries.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has taken a firm stance against countries unwilling to act on reducing emissions.

The legendary British broadcaster attacked Australia's steadfast commitment to the coal industry in an interview with an Australian radio program.

There's been a slight calculation error.

Researchers say ‘urgent action’ needed as rise in renewables is eclipsed by increase in world’s total energy consumption

Marine and ice specialists from top research outfits gathered at an emergency summit in Wellington on Tuesday to discuss record low sea ice in Antarctica this year, which they described as "deeply...

Many will argue that chemicals are needed to feed the population, but this is a false dilemma.

Emissions will erode petroglyphs, scientists warn

The secretary general also called on all countries to ban fossil fuel advertising, as new data reveals how quickly the world is approaching a critical threshold

Initially postponed due to coronavirus, the deployment of US Marines to the Top End is back on, but questions remain about how many are coming, when they'll arrive or where they'll be treated if any...

If re-elected as prime minister, Ms Ardern says she'll end all non-renewable energy generation in New Zealand by the end of the decade.

After WWII, people wondered why nobody had thought to put a stop to either Hitler or Stalin before they could accomplish their wicked designs.

After WWII, a good many people wondered why nobody had put a stop to either Hitler or Stalin, the two greatest butchers of history up to that point, before they could accomplish their wicked design…

Big tech is playing its part in reaching net zero targets, but its vast new datacentres are run at huge cost to the environment, says economics professor Mariana Mazzucato

By Julian Cribb AM Fifty-five million years ago, the Earth took a fever. Somehow, 12,000 billion tonnes of carbon escaped into the atmosphere – and global temperatures soared by 5-8 degrees Celsius…

The base of the food chain could lose much of its nutrient supply if the current collapses

Last year, the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment was formally recognized by the UN–and more legislation is coming.

Another 'Great Dying'.

Nature Sustainability - As an alternative to monetary estimates, this study expresses the costs of climate change in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’,...

Concerns about accusations of hype may have biased them toward conservative underestimates

Two expeditions to the Thwaites Ice Shelf have revealed that it could splinter apart in less than a decade, hastening sea-level rise worldwide

The Earth's species — plants, animals and humans, alike — are facing imminent demise. How we got here, and how to cope.