A searing heatwave that struck west Africa in February was made 4C hotter and 10 times more likely by human-caused global heating, a study has…
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‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes
In the districts surrounding Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, most people have little idea their villages were at the centre of a multimillion-dollar carbon boom. Punctuated…
View More ‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemesScientists unearth mysteries of giant, moving Moroccan star dune
They are impressive, mysterious structures that loom out of deserts on the Earth and are also found on Mars and on Saturn’s biggest moon, Titan.…
View More Scientists unearth mysteries of giant, moving Moroccan star dune‘Stop insuring fossil fuel’: activists target London insurers in week of action
Traffic petered out on Gracechurch Street, in the heart of London’s financial district, as hundreds marched down the road, in step with samba drummers beating…
View More ‘Stop insuring fossil fuel’: activists target London insurers in week of actionDeath toll rises to seven in Malawi elephant relocation project linked to Prince Harry NGO
Four more people have died after an elephant translocation overseen by two wildlife organisations, including one that was headed by Prince Harry, in a protected…
View More Death toll rises to seven in Malawi elephant relocation project linked to Prince Harry NGOJust two northern white rhinos remain. The species’ first IVF pregnancy could save them from extinction
The critically endangered northern white rhino could be saved from the brink of extinction after scientists performed the first successful embryo transfer in white rhinos.…
View More Just two northern white rhinos remain. The species’ first IVF pregnancy could save them from extinctionAfrican elephant populations stabilise in southern heartlands
African elephant populations have stabilised in their southern heartlands after huge losses over the last century, according to the most comprehensive analysis of growth rates…
View More African elephant populations stabilise in southern heartlandsI discovered … chimps using tools – and people wouldn’t believe me
I was born in Ngomboku village, surrounded by the lush, evergreen forests of what is now the Bakossi national park in Cameroon. My parents were…
View More I discovered … chimps using tools – and people wouldn’t believe meThe new ‘scramble for Africa’: how a UAE sheikh quietly made carbon deals for forests bigger than UK
The rights over vast tracts of African forest are being sold off in a series of huge carbon offsetting deals that cover an area of…
View More The new ‘scramble for Africa’: how a UAE sheikh quietly made carbon deals for forests bigger than UKCountries meet in Kenya to thrash out global plastic pollution treaty
Government delegations will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, to hammer out details of what could be the first global treaty to tackle the plastic pollution crisis.…
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