Fossil experts say they have gained unprecedented insights into a type of enormous prehistoric shark, after finding complete skeletons of the creatures. The specimens, discovered…
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‘A mystical experience’: millions watch total solar eclipse sweep across North America
The ethereal spectacle of a total solar eclipse swept across North America on Monday afternoon, giving tens millions of people in Mexico, the US and…
View More ‘A mystical experience’: millions watch total solar eclipse sweep across North AmericaPeople displaced by climate crisis to testify in first-of-its-kind hearing in US
Communities under imminent threat from rising sea level, floods and other extreme weather will testify in Washington on Thursday, as the region’s foremost human rights…
View More People displaced by climate crisis to testify in first-of-its-kind hearing in USGrey whales seen seeking human help to remove parasites
Grey whales have learned to approach whale-watching boats to have parasites removed by human beings, it has been claimed. Video footage documenting the behaviour in…
View More Grey whales seen seeking human help to remove parasites‘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 worldThe race against time to breed a wheat to survive the climate crisis
A dozen or so farm workers perched on wooden stools carefully emasculate wheat spikes using nail scissors and tweezers – the first step in a…
View More The race against time to breed a wheat to survive the climate crisisUK zoo helps lost Mexican fish live to see another Tequila sunrise
A “charismatic little fish” declared extinct in the wild has been reintroduced to its native Mexico after being bred in an aquarium at Chester zoo.…
View More UK zoo helps lost Mexican fish live to see another Tequila sunriseLatin America urges US to reduce plastic waste exports to region
Environmental organisations across Latin America have called on the US to reduce plastic waste exports to the region, after a report found the US had…
View More Latin America urges US to reduce plastic waste exports to region‘We are fearful’: Indigenous Mexicans dread new military buildup on ancestral land
Micaela* always stops to kiss a cross at the base of three hills, a lush swath of land in the indigenous ejido of San Sebastián…
View More ‘We are fearful’: Indigenous Mexicans dread new military buildup on ancestral landProsecutors in Mexico seeking arrest warrants for more than 30 scientists
Mexico’s scientific community has reacted with outrage after the country’s chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for 31 scientists, researchers and academics on accusations of organised…
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