Environment & Sustainability

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First assessment of UNESCO sites finds widespread climate impacts

Nearly all of UNESCO’s more than 2,200 World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves and Geoparks have already endured climate extremes over the past two decades. That’s according to initial data from the first ever global biodiversity and climate assessment unveiled at…

Local divers pick away at Lake Malawi’s underwater garbage problem

CAPE MACLEAR, Malawi — On a clear August morning, three scuba divers disappeared under the waters of Lake Malawi. Above them, serenity: The clear water rippled gently, spick-and-span Cape Maclear Beach was empty of tourists and the shoreline trees stood…

Five crucial Earth systems near a tipping point: Report

Five of Earth’s vital systems are close to a point of irreversible change, warns a new report released by a global network of scientists ahead of the upcoming U.N. climate change conference in Brazil. The 2025 Global Tipping Points report…

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support Ed Miliband has approved the UK’s biggest solar farm, which will be built in a county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has won rising…