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The U.K. government has rejected calls to fully ban bottom trawling in its offshore marine protected areas, despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large amounts of carbon. Bottom trawling involves dragging weighted nets across…
NAIROBI — In May and June, the Food and Agriculture Organization’s commission for controlling desert locust outbreaks in West and Northwest Africa warned that heavy rainfall and vegetation in North Africa could support major locust swarms in the Sahel this…
Exclusive: Luis Vayas Valdivieso says he is quitting for personal and professional reasons after reports of pressure behind the scenes The chair of stalled UN plastics treaty talks, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, is preparing to step down, after accounts of behind-the-scenes…
In northern Thailand’s Ban Pong village, a group of women has spent nearly two decades restoring and guarding their community forest to prevent dry-season wildfires. From the restored forest, residents now harvest forest products to sell in markets and feed…
The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
Scientists find 10% chance that similar events to the ‘unheard of’ temperatures in 2023 could occur each year The unprecedented marine heatwave of 2023 was in line with climate modelling, research shows, as scientists warn such events will become more…
New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission, in potential conflict with Trump’s drive to use them for law enforcement. By Marianne Lavelle The National Guard logged more than 400,000 member service days per year over the past decade…
Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean water. By Kiley Bense In the summer of 2022, John Stolz got a phone call asking for his help. This request—one…
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called environment department bureaucrats ‘weak’ – though later withdrew the remark Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australian government officials are investigating whether a coal mining company is putting threatened greater…
A white-headed woodpecker stirs the dawn quiet, hammering at a patch of charred bark stretching 15 feet up the trunk of a ponderosa pine. The first streaks of sun light the tree’s green crown, sending beams across this grove of…