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Environment

Has global warming stopped?

Biodiversity improves crop production

Man raising a handful of earth.

Chile's biggest drought is not a children's thing

Catalina Silva, Julieta Itzcovich and Bruno Rodríguez.

3 young Latin Americans fight for the environment

This new porous coordination polymer has propeller-shaped molecular structures that enables selectively capturing CO2

New material captures carbon dioxide

Polystyrene pollution at the tide's edge.

Sunlight degrades polystyrene much faster than expected

Alberto Carrasquilla

Colombia: Why is Alberto Carrasquilla Minister of Environment Ad Hoc?

Coastal home

Are you getting prepared for climate change?

Air conditioning device outside a house.

A cool eco-friendly alternative to air conditioning

Many houses were leveled, gutted or flooded in Pascagoula, Mississippi, by Hurricane Katrina.

Costs of natural disasters are increasing at the high end

Glacier

Disappearing Peruvian glaciers

Cooling tower in a nuclear power plant.

Is nuclear energy the solution for climate change?

Plane in the sky

How to make carbon pricing palatable to air travellers

Office with computers in cubicles.

How much are you polluting your office air just by existing?

Tuna fish

How sustainable is tuna?

Batteries

A new concept could make more environmentally friendly batteries possible

Plastic bottles on top of body of water.

Converging on a global waste solution

Waste products made with plastic.

5 initiatives where you will get benefits for recycling

Angela Merkel speaks with the participants in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change.

UN: Merkel calls urgently to save the rainforest

View of an area of factories where there are carbon dioxide emissions.

UN should review its own carbon footprint

Agricultural crop field

The next agricultural revolution is here

Dominika Pasternak, a Polish PhD student in atmospheric chemistry at Britain’s University of York.

The climate hunters: three young women racing to help environment

  1. Smartphones will have to last longer to reduce carbon emissions
  2. New wildfire models to predict how wildfires will burn in next 20 minutes
  3. Why is Earth so biologically diverse? Mountains hold the answer
  4. Japan: The nuclear disaster will be investigated again