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Flying over the heart of the Amazon is like flying over an ocean of green: an expanse of trees broken only by rivers. Even more amazing than their size is the role the Amazon and other rainforests… Read more

The tell-tale signs and impacts of climate change – such as sea level rise, ice loss and extreme weather – increased during 2015-2019, which is set to be the warmest five-year period on record,… Read more

A landmark global assessment warns that the window is closing to safeguard biodiversity and a healthy planet. Yet solutions are in sight. Read more

Billions of tons of groceries from agriculture are transported to our cities all around the globe every day to feed its dwellers. Produced anywhere in the world and transported as cargo on roads, rail… Read more

Storing carbon dioxide (CO₂) deep below the seabed is one way to counteract the increasing concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere. But what happens if such storage sites begin to leak and CO₂ escapes… Read more

The ice sheet covering West Antarctica is at risk of sliding off into the ocean. While further ice-sheet destabilisation in other parts of the continent may be limited by a reduction of greenhouse gas… Read more

Germany likely faces a heat wave this week. In which way is this releated to human-caused climate change? Read more

What you need to know about a popular weed killer’s alleged link to cancer. Read more

Ocean Overfishing is simply the taking of wildlife from the sea at rates too high for fished species to replace themselves. Read more

CO₂ greenhouse gas amounts in the atmosphere are likely higher today than ever before in the past 3 million years. For the first time, a team of scientists succeeded to do a computer simulation that… Read more