On 15 September, satellites recorded an arctic sea ice level of 3.74m sq km, the second-lowest minimum in the 42-year satellite record, according to the latest report released by the
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Trees naturally take up and store carbon dioxide, creating a vast and natural carbon sink that is crucial to putting the brakes on global warming. One assumed benefit of higher
Asphalt may be a significant, yet overlooked, source of air pollution in urban areas. In a new paper published on 2 September in Science Advances, scientists reveal that common road
Water from melting glaciers is sharply increasing the volume of glacial lakes, according to a new study published on 31 August in the journal Nature Climate Change (1). The volume
The world’s plastic pollution problem is much worse than imagined, according to a new analysis published on 18 August in Nature Communications (1). Compared to previous estimates of around 17
From snowfall on remote mountaintops from the Arctic to the European Alps to the deepest depths of the ocean, microplastics have been documented in virtually every corner of the world.
Over the past six months, widespread lockdown measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus have led to notable declines in greenhouse gas emissions. But short-term gains are unlikely to
At the end of July, part of Canada’s last fully intact ice shelf began to break off and a mass of ice around 80 square kilometres broke off and began
Declining wild bee populations translate directly into decreased crop yields, according to a new study published last month in Proceedings of the Royal Society B (1). Five of the seven
The cost of preventing future pandemics is a mere modicum of the amount Covid-19 is expected to cost the global economy, according to a new analysis published on 24 July