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A woman is laying leather out to dry in Bangladesh.

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Sean Mowbray 6 Feb 2024

Harvesting oranges near Sicily, Italy.

Cradle of transformation: The Mediterranean and climate change

John Cannon 28 Apr 2022

Freshwater planetary boundary “considerably” transgressed: New research

Petro Kotzé 27 Apr 2022

In lab animals and humans, dysfunction of the gut microbiome has been linked to digestive diseases.

Unseen crisis: Threatened gut microbiome also offers hope for world

Claire Asher 26 Apr 2022

Detroit Dam in Oregon

The world’s dams: Doing major harm but a manageable problem?

Petro Kotzé 21 Apr 2022

Tree rings on a dead tree.

Tropical trees’ growth and CO2 intake hit by more extreme dry seasons

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Apr 2022

A Royal Navy research vessel patrols Antarctica.

Robot revolution: A new real-time accounting system for ocean carbon

Elizabeth Devitt 18 Apr 2022

A red-eyed tree frog in Brazil.

Global biodiversity is in crisis, but how bad is it? It’s complicated

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Apr 2022

Musk oxen.

‘Nature has priority’: Rewilding map showcases nature-led restoration

John Cannon 11 Apr 2022

How much does air travel warm the planet? New study gives a figure

Liz Kimbrough 6 Apr 2022

These women, who are part of the Mam indigenous community, are harvesting pine nuts in a forest in Cajolá, Quetzaltenango, to be sold later at a local market. Our work supports reforestation efforts and helps local families sustain themselves economically. Photo credit: Sergio Izquierdo

Reaching the Paris Agreement without protecting Indigenous lands is “impossible”, says report

Dimitri Selibas 1 Apr 2022

Traditional knowledge guides protection of planetary health in Finland

Jane Palmer 31 Mar 2022

Marine cold spells, a potential buffer against warming seas, are fading away

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Mar 2022

Multiyear ice thinner than thought as Arctic sea ice reaches winter max: Studies

Alec Luhn 22 Mar 2022

Chemical recycling: ‘Green’ plastics solution makes more pollution, says report

Claire Asher 22 Mar 2022

World’s biggest tropical crop bank opens in Colombia, taking food research high tech

Liz Kimbrough 18 Mar 2022

Traffic on Nepal's highway

Road project threatens to derail Nepal’s conservation gains, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Mar 2022

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Claire Asher 15 Mar 2022

The world says yes to a cradle to grave plastics treaty: Now the work begins

Charles Pekow 7 Mar 2022

Microplastics plus organic pollutants equals 10 times the toxicity, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Mar 2022

Aerosol pollution: Destabilizing Earth’s climate and a threat to health

Conrad Fox 3 Mar 2022

Caffeine: Emerging contaminant of global rivers and coastal waters

Sean Mowbray 22 Feb 2022

The small cats nobody knows: Wild felines face intensifying planetary risks

Sean Mowbray 17 Feb 2022

Tiny plastic particles accumulating in river headwaters: Study

Claire Asher 10 Feb 2022

Preventing the next pandemic is vastly cheaper than reacting to it: Study

Sharon Guynup 4 Feb 2022

As world drowns in plastic waste, U.N. to hammer out global treaty

Charles Pekow 2 Feb 2022

Safe havens for coral reefs will disappear as oceans warm, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Feb 2022

Innovative sewage solutions: Tackling the global human waste problem

Sean Mowbray 25 Jan 2022

Efforts to dim Sun and cool Earth must be blocked, say scientists

Shanna Hanbury 24 Jan 2022

We’ve breached Earth’s threshold for chemical pollution, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Jan 2022

A Bohemian waxwing takes off with a fruit in its bill. (Photo by Christine Johnson)

As animals vanish, the plants they spread can’t keep pace with climate change

Liz Kimbrough 19 Jan 2022

In hot water: Ocean warming hits another record high on climate change

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Jan 2022

The thick of it: Delving into the neglected global impacts of human waste

Sean Mowbray 11 Jan 2022

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