Video footage from a deep-sea mining test, showing sediment discharging into the ocean, has raised fresh questions about the largely untested nature of the industry,…
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Polar bears vanishing from ‘polar bear capital of the world’ in Canada
Polar bears are disappearing fast from the western part of Hudson Bay on the southern tip of the Canadian Arctic, according to a government survey.…
View More Polar bears vanishing from ‘polar bear capital of the world’ in CanadaCop15 half-time report: China prompts fears of new ‘Copenhagen moment’
Talks to halt the destruction of nature “very much hang in the balance”, sources have said, as environment ministers from around the world begin to…
View More Cop15 half-time report: China prompts fears of new ‘Copenhagen moment’Humanity has become ‘weapon of mass extinction’, UN head tells Cop15 launch
Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction and governments must end the “orgy of destruction”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has said at…
View More Humanity has become ‘weapon of mass extinction’, UN head tells Cop15 launchCanada and China prepare to open Cop15 biodiversity summit despite rifts
More than 10,000 scientists, government officials and activists will gather in Montreal this week for the world’s most important biodiversity conference, eager to hammer out…
View More Canada and China prepare to open Cop15 biodiversity summit despite riftsResearchers discover two new minerals on meteorite grounded in Somalia
A team of researchers in Canada say they have discovered two new minerals – and potentially a third – after analysing a slice of a…
View More Researchers discover two new minerals on meteorite grounded in Somalia‘Life no longer as we know it’: war in space would have devastating effects, military expert says
It would no longer be “life as we know it” if a space war destroyed the satellites that the world now relies on, space commanders…
View More ‘Life no longer as we know it’: war in space would have devastating effects, military expert says‘We need a breakthrough deal on biodiversity’: can Montreal summit deliver for nature?
In 2010, politicians and scientists made a pledge to halt the devastating reductions in wildlife numbers that had been denuding the planet of its animals…
View More ‘We need a breakthrough deal on biodiversity’: can Montreal summit deliver for nature?‘It was like an apocalyptic movie’: 20 climate photographs that changed the world
An iceberg threatens a village in Greenland, July 2018, Magnus Kristensen For a week in July 2018, a giant 100m-tall iceberg loomed over a tiny…
View More ‘It was like an apocalyptic movie’: 20 climate photographs that changed the world‘Alien goldfish’ may have been unique mollusc, say scientists
The mystery of a bizarre creature dubbed the “alien goldfish”, which has baffled fossil experts for decades, may have been solved, according to scientists who…
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