How do the clothes you buy wear out the natural world? To take stock of the damage you have to account for the materials, water and...
Earthquakes, large and small, happen every single day along zones that wrap around the world like seams on a baseball. Most don’t bother anybody, so they...
For most of us, Antarctic sea ice is an abstraction – something far away we may have seen on a documentary. But the radiant white sheets...
Drinking straws that are made from materials like paper and bamboo are often promoted as more eco-friendly than their plastic counterparts. However, a new study has...
Rates of cycling are falling in Australia, a national report released today shows. More people started riding bikes early in the pandemic, but that hasn’t lasted....
The green transition is happening too slowly. We are in a climate emergency and it is clear that we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by...
Our cities are complex places of work, industry and residential activities. This often makes it hard to pin down the spread of different contaminants throughout them....
A healthy coral reef in Palau in the western Pacific Ocean. Liam Lachs, Author provided Unprecedented ocean temperatures are triggering mass coral bleaching events across the...
When soaring temperatures, extreme weather and catastrophic wildfires hit the headlines, people start asking for quick fixes to climate change. The U.S. government just announced the...
Rapid reductions in fossil fuel production and use are essential to limit global warming to 1.5℃ compared to pre-industrial levels. Our new research shows most of...