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ABOARD LIFTBOAT ROBERT, North Atlantic (AP) — Scientists conducting a first-of-its-kind drilling operation have extracted samples of fresh water hiding in massive reservoirs deep under the ocean. Their consortium of more than a dozen nations sank pipes through the seabed…
Tropical bird populations are crashing as temperatures soar. That’s according to a new study that found abundances of tropical birds were 25-38% lower than they would be without human-driven climate change and the rising temperatures it has caused. This temperature…
Maureen Gilbert’s body was floating in her home when son came to help her following river in Chesterfield overflowing The son of an 83-year-old woman who died during Storm Babet has called for more money to be invested in protecting…
Officials in Guatemala have announced plans to occupy a recently closed oil field with the aim of increasing enforcement in protected areas badly hit by organized crime. The Xan oil field inside Laguna del Tigre National Park, in northern Guatemala,…
‘Fragmented’ policies leading councils to prioritise approval of housebuilding over parks, researchers find Children in cities across Britain face barriers to playing outside because urban planners are prioritising housebuilding over parks, a study has found. The research, published in the…
Amazon Rainforest Day, first celebrated in 2008, aims to raise awareness about the importance of Earth’s largest rainforest. There is a place where the Amazon meets the Andes, where forests climb the lower slopes of mountains before giving way to…
Kokichi Akuzawa climbed with 70-year-old daughter to break record for oldest person to make ascent – a second time Kokichi Akuzawa has become the oldest person to climb to the top of Mount Fuji at the age of 102 –…
Temperatures climb above 40C, while a powerful hailstorm in the US lashes Kansas and Oklahoma A spate of extremely hot weather in British Columbia has broken Canada’s national maximum temperature record for September. On Tuesday, it reached 40C (104F) in…
Survey of eight countries finds 82% of people support 30×30 biodiversity target, as progress stalls on protected areas Much of the world favours protecting 30% of the world’s land and water for nature by 2030, according to new research that…
The Trump administration wants to switch off and possibly destroy the climate-monitoring technology.