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April 27, 2026, 03:15 PM - 6 min read
By analysing observations of where landslides have occurred in past storms, alongside the underlying environmental conditions that increase landslide susceptibility.
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April 27, 2026, 02:00 PM - 6 min read
A new study of two whale fossils, with preservedfragments of shark teeth, suggests the modern descendants of these animalscould once again roam the southern region of the North Sea, between the UK,Belgium and Denmark.
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April 24, 2026, 01:56 PM - 7 min read
By pinpointing exactly when Madagascar’s most arid region was wet, dry and everything in between over 700 years, scientists now have a powerful new baseline for evaluating what might happen with today’s climate change.
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March 10, 2026, 02:31 PM - 6 min read
The poorer a country, nation or community, the greater the risk of exposure to extreme weather, food and water insecurity, disease and forced displacement. Yet people in the least developed countries have contributed almost nothing to global heating.
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March 5, 2026, 02:19 PM - 6 min read
The picture for 2026 is complicated. Although flooding can kill overwintering eggs and adults, a mild wet winter will have reduced slug mortality. It may also affect slug predators.
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January 28, 2026, 01:25 PM - 8 min read
The damage to Lebanon’s environment will have long-term consequences and repairing the damage would involve a multi-year reconstruction project costing an estimated US$11 to $14 billion. This destruction indicates a grave breach of international environmental law and raises the question of whether Israel committed war crimes in Lebanon by deliberately targeting natural resources and engaging in environmental warfare.
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January 22, 2026, 02:40 PM - 5 min read
Historically, it has been thought these volcanic arcs were the primary culprits of injecting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The new findings challenge that view. Instead, researchers suggest that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts have played a much more significant role in driving Earth’s carbon cycles throughout geological time.
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December 7, 2025, 03:03 PM - 7 min read
What controls the fate of the Antarctic ice sheet–and therefore the rate of sea-level rise–is how much ocean heat reaches the base of the floating ice shelves. But the processes that cause melting in ice-shelf cavities are very challenging to observe.
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December 4, 2025, 01:17 PM - 5 min read
For 250 million years, coral reefs have played a pivotal role in regulating Earth’s climate by influencing ocean alkalinity and carbon absorption.
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October 18, 2025, 01:25 PM - 3 min read
At the G20 Environment Ministers’ Meeting, India’s Environment Minister, Bhupender Yadav, underscored the importance of respecting each country’s contribution in the fight against climate change and understanding that their responsibilities differed based on current capacities
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October 3, 2025, 05:54 PM - 4 min read
Migratory species from elephants to snow trout face shrinking habitats as climate change drives them into ecological bottlenecks, warns a UN report urging urgent global conservation action.
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September 25, 2025, 03:41 PM - 6 min read
Stretching from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, the whole river basin supports over 650 million people, a quarter of India’s freshwater, and much of its food and economic value.
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