A new tethered design for plastic caps on drinks bottles has some consumers in a huff, but what’s behind the move? Cracking open a cold coke on a hot day is...
Category - Environment
A costly step in the process of taking carbon dioxide emissions and converting them into useful products such as biofuels and pharmaceuticals may not be...
They call it “The Blob.” A vast expanse of ocean stretching from Alaska to California periodically warms by up to 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees F), decimating...
Cocoa fruit contains other valuable ingredients that have been underutilised until now, the researchers say. Scientists in Switzerland have invented a way to...
European Union countries approved a law on Monday (27 May) to impose methane emissions limits on Europe’s oil and gas imports from 2030, pressuring...
The world experienced an average of 26 more days of extreme heat over the last 12 months that would probably not have occurred without climate change, a report...
Nine small island states have won a historic climate change case at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), which ruled that all signatories...
They are supposed to be the climate-savers’ gold standard — the key data on which the world relies in its efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions and hold...
Canada’s air pollution levels last year were worse than those in the United States for the first time since an air quality firm in Switzerland started...
For years, climate scientists have called for a phase-out of fossil fuels to avoid catastrophic global warming. Now, according to a first-of-its-kind survey of...