Advances in fields such as spectrometry and gene sequencing are unleashing torrents of new data about the ancient world – and could offer answers to questions we never even knew to ask.
For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU’s climate service. This breach doesn’t break the Paris agreement, but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term.
The Dominican Republic’s forests are being cut down for grazing land – and it’s also having a serious effect on the water supply. Is planting new trees a natural solution to the crisis?
Last year was about 1.48C warmer than the long-term average before humans started burning large amounts of fossil fuels. Almost every day since July has seen a new global air temperature high for the time of year, BBC analysis shows.
In an extract from her book Not the End of the World, data scientist Hannah Ritchie explains how her work taught her that there are more reasons for hope than despair about climate change – and why a truly sustainable world is in reach.
Two new coalitions of scientists, lawyers, philosophers, and artists have joined the burgeoning global campaign for ecosystems and other species to have legal rights and even political representation.
From skyrocketing temperatures to Germany phasing out nuclear and a historic global deal to “transition away” from fossil fuels, Deutsche Welle (DW) looks back at the environmental highs and lows of the last 12 months.
Looking back to this time last year in Montreal where governments signed a once-in-a-decade deal, it is worth remembering that the world has never met a UN target to stem the destruction of wildlife and life-sustaining ecosystems.
Despite the urging of more than 130 countries and scientists and civil society groups, the agreement did not include an explicit commitment to phase out or even phase down fossil fuels. Instead, it called on countries to transition away from fossil fuels.
