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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Impact of warmer seas on fish stocks leads to rise in pirate attacks
Dwindling fish stocks caused by the climate crisis are leading to an increase in pirate attacks, according to a new study looking at two piracy…
View More Impact of warmer seas on fish stocks leads to rise in pirate attacks‘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 worldFood for the future: helping farmers in Kenya adapt to the climate crisis
The harsh midday sun beats down on the withering pawpaw plants in Maureen Adhiambo’s patch of land. The villagers in Kamenya have not seen rain…
View More Food for the future: helping farmers in Kenya adapt to the climate crisisDrought puts 2.1 million Kenyans at risk of starvation
An estimated 2.1 million Kenyans face starvation due to a drought in half the country, which is affecting harvests. The National Drought Management Authority (NDMA)…
View More Drought puts 2.1 million Kenyans at risk of starvationAn actor, two big bees and a lot of experts: a week spent tackling the planet’s problems
At times in Marseille’s early autumn sun, pre-pandemic life felt tantalisingly close at the world’s largest conservation gathering since Covid began. Scientists presented the latest…
View More An actor, two big bees and a lot of experts: a week spent tackling the planet’s problemsElephants might not fly: confusion over Carrie Johnson charity’s rewilding plan
Confusion has erupted over plans to fly a herd of elephants from Kent to Kenya, after the Kenyan wildlife service said it had not been…
View More Elephants might not fly: confusion over Carrie Johnson charity’s rewilding planArchaeologists uncover oldest human burial in Africa
Archaeologists have identified the oldest known human burial in Africa during field work that uncovered the remains of a child laid carefully to rest in…
View More Archaeologists uncover oldest human burial in Africa‘Ecological island’: as Maasai herding lands shrink, so does space for Kenya’s elephants
Kenyan elephants risk a slow extinction in a bleak, ever-shrinking “ecological island” in one of the country’s most picturesque and photographed landscapes, according to a…
View More ‘Ecological island’: as Maasai herding lands shrink, so does space for Kenya’s elephantsAnd then there were two: can northern white rhinos be saved from extinction?
“I watch these beautiful animals walk the path toward extinction every day,” keeper James Mwenda tells me. He’s out in the Kenyan bush, swatting flies.…
View More And then there were two: can northern white rhinos be saved from extinction?