FIFTH of the world’s population will be affected by sinking land by 2040 due to human and natural removal of groundwater, model predicts Researchers led from Spain created a new model of global subsidence risks The phenomenon could come to threaten 635 million people within two decades Most of the populations at greater risk are in … Read more
After four-and-a-half years, the world’s largest deep-sea exploration mission has identified at least 12 new species of marine life, including a new kind of coral. Funded by the European Union, the just-completed ATLAS Project carried out some 45 research expeditions since June 2016, exploring undersea life in a deep stretch of the North Atlantic. More … Read more
South America’s Amazon rainforest will be wiped out by 2064 due to deforestation and prolonged droughts from climate change, a scientist predicts in a new paper. At about 2.3 million square miles, the Amazon is the largest tropical forest on Earth. As well as reducing air pollution and regulating the world’s oxygen and carbon cycles, it … Read more
South America’s Amazon rainforest will be wiped out by 2064 due to deforestation and prolonged droughts from climate change, a scientist predicts in a new paper. At about 2.3 million square miles, the Amazon is the largest tropical forest on Earth. As well as reducing air pollution and regulating the world’s oxygen and carbon cycles, … Read more
Greta Thunberg says it is ‘great’ to be back at school after she spent gap year trying to save the world and believes Covid shows importance of listening to scientists Teenager told BBC’s Today programme world needs to follow climate science Says coronavirus pandemic has ‘shone a light’ on need of listening to experts Celebrated … Read more
Sir David Attenborough welcomes Joe Biden’s US presidential election victory – and stresses America’s importance in fighting climate change David Attenborough says ‘of course’ Joe Biden’s victory was good for the world Mr Biden pledged to rejoin Paris climate accord on the first day of his presidency Broadcaster Sir David discussed the US returning to … Read more
Sir David Attenborough welcomes Joe Biden’s US presidential election victory – and stresses America’s importance in fighting climate change David Attenborough says ‘of course’ Joe Biden’s victory was good for the world Mr Biden pledged to rejoin Paris climate accord on the first day of his presidency Broadcaster Sir David discussed the US returning to … Read more
A mindfulness coach who celebrates Christmas by regifting presents to loved ones has hit back at critics who say “it’s mean” – explaining that she is reducing waste and helping the planet. Mother-of-three Hollie Barber, 29, is concerned about the future her children Alexis, 10, Zachary, eight, and Nox, two, will grow up in because … Read more
Devastating dolphin disease that covers up to 70 per cent of their skin in lesions is caused by decreased water salinity linked to climate change ‘Freshwater skin disease’ was first spotted in dolphins living in Louisiana in 2007 The conditions causes patchy and raised lesions that appear across the body US and Australian researchers have … Read more
World leaders should aggressively reduce the carbon footprint of the wealthiest to curb the effects of climate change, experts have said. It comes after a UN report found that the wealthiest 1 per cent pump more than twice times as much carbon into the atmosphere as the bottom 50 per cent. It is hardly the first … Read more