Difficulty means severe storms arrive with little warning of where or when exactly they will hit, with sometimes deadly consequences

Research finds global heating has already lengthened the pollen season in addition to worsening heatwaves and droughts

As sea levels rise, Venice’s options are running out. New research shows that even the most ambitious engineering may only delay the inevitable.

Conservation International helped secure a million-hectare marine park, two decades in the making.

The Hankyoreh reviewed years’ worth of court cases to understand how the failure to enshrine the right to abortion in law and normalize it as standard health care has affected Korean women who chose t...

Marine protected areas can’t stop pollution flowing in from the land and Northern Ireland’s seagrass meadows are paying the price.

Soil fungi “borrow” bacterial genes to control the weather

No matter where you get your food from, a good chunk of your diet is ultimately reliant on fossil fuels. We already need to change this to tackle climate change, but the Iran war and resulting oil sho...

Agriculture has boomed in Uruguay over the past decade, but the accompanying rise in agrochemical use poses a problem for honey producers

Conservation International helped secure a million-hectare marine park, two decades in the making.

In a quiet village in Kisii County, southwestern Kenya, 16-year-old Juliet Moraa sits on a wooden plastic stool, cradling her one-month-old baby boy. Her eyes well with tears as she reflects on how a simple visit to a nearby health facility changed the course of her life.

Bird lovers need to take care of how and when they feed them to avoid spreading a deadly disease, the RSPB has said.

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers

Over the last 12 years, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo fundamentally reshaped the City of Lights. As she leaves office, this is the story of how she reclaimed the city’s public spaces from cars, covered the...

Large majority in parliament backs amendment to Luxembourg’s highest law, with ‘freedom’ to have an abortion added to constitution

Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

With the High Seas Treaty coming into force in January, efforts to establish protected areas in the marine spaces that lie beyond countries’ jurisdiction are gaining momentum — including one off the c...

Thuisabortus.nl, the website where women who want to terminate an unwanted pregnancy can get the abortion pill online, has been paused just five days after its launch. The demand was much higher than ...

‘Precious ocean life is being pushed to the brink’ say campaigners, arguing that overfished marine areas are ‘protected only on paper’

Reform is joining a chorus of European hard right parties who frame fertility as a cultural battleground - and whose pronatalism is accompanied by efforts to limit women’s choices

Tens of thousands of baby corals, grown on land or settled from wild spawn slicks, have been transplanted onto the Great Barrier Reef.

The EU claims to police the world’s oceans against illegal fishing, yet allows its own fleets to plunder with impunity, internal documents obtained by Follow the Money reveal. Analysts warn that weak ...

A new global review reveals a critical “gap between advocacy and evidence” when it comes to scaling traditional agriculture to fight climate change.

The country’s speedy rollout of renewables has put a lid on electricity bills

Vast journeys, among world’s great wonders, found to be under threat as freshwater fish populations crash by 81% “It’s very hard to imagine what’s going on beneath the water when you look at a river – but you have billions of fish making these epic migrations, some of the largest animal migrations on Earth,” said Dr Zeb Hogan, at the University of Nevada in the US. The longest migration of any freshwater fish species is the dorado catfish, which makes a migration of 7,000 miles (11,000km), from spawning in the foothills of the Andes to feeding in the Amazon estuary and back again. The silver-gold fish themselves were incredible, said Hogan: “They get to about 2 metres long.” Continue reading...

Romania’s history offers a rare natural experiment on what happens when abortion laws change rapidly. What can the rest of the world learn from this?

For the first time, scientists have measured atmospheric gases from the late Pliocene, yielding data that could help to predict the future climate

Old-growth forests store 78-89% more carbon than managed forests do.

From a deconsecrated London cemetery to a Cumbrian seal colony, our readers select wonderful ‘havens for both human and non-human visitors’

Moss can absorb pollution caused by traffic and grow in thin soil.

Arizona farmers face increasing stressors due to climate change, but there are solutions. It will take some effort, but they are in reach.

As war exposes the fragility of global energy supplies, communities are showing how clean power can be local, affordable and owned by the people who use it

Emerging technologies such as lab-based meat could produce the same quality and quantity of protein on hundreds of times less land.

From sea turtles to birds and the gentle dugong, the Persian Gulf's diverse but fragile marine life is threatened by the bombs and oil of the war in the Middle East.

Redbridge, on behalf of The Australia Institute, surveyed a nationally representative sample of 2,010 Australians about their knowledge of, and opinions