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Plant me here: Scientists map where crops grow with maximum yield and minimum environmental damage

We're growing food in all the wrong places.

This airport in Europe will limit flights to bring down polluting emissions

The Netherlands is targeting aviation to reduce its climate footprint.

So one of Antarctica's regions has lost thousands of billions of tons of ice

Researchers studied the mass balance of the region from 1996 to 2021.

Big climate report says we're really running out of time to act on climate

The IPCC researchers say we need to take big action yesterday.

Massive underwater waves disrupt carbon storage in the oceans

They are as tall as 500 meters.

La Niña climate pattern is officially over. But El Niño may already be on its way

They are the opposite phases of what is called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation system.

We need at least $1 trillion worth of offset to make the aviation industry carbon neutral

...and not even spending that much is guaranteed to work.

Fossil fuel companies donate millions to US universities

Universities have downplayed the negative impacts of fossil fuel emissions.

SUVs now release more carbon emissions than most countries

Big cars are a big problem to the environment -- and we don't really need them.

Air pollution from natural sources is set to increase as the planet warms

Not all pollution comes from people

China is still moving ahead with coal power despite climate crisis

The country accounts for about half of the world’s coal production and consumption

Warm water is eating away the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica

A sneak peek below the "doomsday" glacier yields has both good and bad news.

UK Science Museum agreed to a “gag clause” with fossil fuel giant

The museum can’t say anything that could damage the company's reputation

Cargo ships return to sail power to reduce carbon footprint

Cargo shipping is going back to basics.

EU approves ban on new gas car sales by 2035. Trucks not included

The bloc expects not to have diesel and petrol cars on the road by mid century

Emissions from fertilizers could be reduced by 80% in three decdes

It’s all about using them more efficiently, the researchers said

Climate change may be to blame for the downfall of the Hittite civilization

We can learn from history and maybe not do the same mistakes.

Engineers captured CO2 and put it into concrete

It could be a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions coming from concrete.

Big fossil fuel companies just announced record profits

They keep expanding when they should be doing the exact opposite

Volcanoes release more gases into the atmosphere than previously thought. Even inactive ones

It’s not necessarily good or bad for climate change, the researchers said -- but it will improve our climate models.

Rock daisies quickly conquered deserts -- but the rest of the plants aren't likely to adapt to an increasingly arid world

Today's plants are likely poorly equipped to withstand rising aridity unless they come preadapted.

Almost all coal plants in the US are more expensive than new renewables

There's basically no reason to cling on to caol.

The cute and bizarre echidnas blow snot bubbles to beat the heat waves

The cold beaks of echidnas cool down their hot blood.

Abandoned mines could be turned into gravity 'batteries 'that could power the entire planet

When a mine has been exhausted of its resources, it often becomes a forgotten eyesore. But scientists now want to give them a new life as energy storage units.

Exxon predicted climate change with remarkable accuracy -- but chose to lie about it

Their projections were even better than those of some academic and governmental scientists -- which makes it all the worse.

Green ammonia (and fertilizer) may finally be in sight -- and it would be huge

Scientists made significant progress in making ammonia production more environmentally friendly

Earth’s ozone layer is on track to recover within decades

Almost all the ozone-depleting substances have been phased out

Logging tropical forests makes them release carbon for a decade

Researchers quantified emissions and uptake from degraded and deforested in Asia, finding more reasons to fight deforestation.

Warming oceans are destroying many marine parasites. This could be a bad thing

Studying parasites is often overlooked, but they also play important roles in ecosystems.

NYC's greenery surprisingly captures carbon emissions from all the vehicles in the city

The city is the number one emitter in America and the third largest in the world.

Large volcano outburst is spotted by small Earth telescope on Jupiter’s moon Io

You could make the same observation with readily available equipment.

A heatwave in January in Europe? Temperatures reach all-time high in many countries

My colleagues in Europe are chilling in tshirts. In January.

Climate change: 'The Future We Choose' by Christiana Figueres

The world faces an unprecedented crisis as global temperatures continue to rise, leading to devastating environmental impacts such as rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and species extinction. COP27, the 27th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, was an important event that took place in November 2022. This year’s […]

Climate activists who damaged artwork in the UK have to pay fine

This happens amid a boom of climate protests in museums

France bans some short-haul flights that can be a train journey instead

It’s just for three routes, but it’s a start.

Rich countries agreed to pay for climate damages. But how will this work?

It’s called loss and damage finance and it was agreed at the COP27 climate summit.

Want to make your pet more sustainable? Try dry food

A dry diet can turn your pet into an energetic and environment friendly companion.

President-elect Lula says Brazil is now ready to tackle the climate crisis

It's a welcome change not just for Brazil, but for the entire planet.

Buckle up and prepare: we have only nine years to avoid catastrophic global warming

The tipping points after which we can't return to a "normal" climate are almost upon us.

Oil and gas emissions could be three times higher than what companies claim

They are the main culprits behind the climate crisis, and they've been lying and lobbying against it

It’s all about the money: COP climate conference stumbles into arguments on who should fund climate action

Many countries are vulnerable to the climate crisis and they are asking to be compensated.

Ukraine sets the stage at landmark climate conference with its first-ever country pavilion

I went and investigated Ukraine's pavilion at the world's largest conference.

What to expect from COP27: the most important conference on the climate crisis

The climate summit to be held in 8 November 2022 in Egypt will discuss issues such as financing for developing countries, combating deforestation and reducing emissions.

This window coating plans to make our buildings cooler without using any energy at all

It could cut down on energy used for cooling by 31%.

Scientists equip sharks with scientific equipment and send them to study the world’s largest seagrass hotspot in The Bahamas

Instrument-equipped sharks led scientists to a large seagrass ecosystem that can fix more carbon than you can ever imagine.

The rich produce much more emissions than the poor. Much, much more, according to a new study

A lifestyle with big cars, many flights and meat-rich diets comes at a big cost for the planet.

Climate change will make rainbows more likely

It's completely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, though.

Heatwaves have cost world economy trillions in the past two decades

... and this is just one of the problems caused by climate change

The world is failing the climate change test. All the metrics look bad, climate catastrophe is likely

The world is on track to 2.5 degrees Celsius of warming by end of the century

NASA’s new instrument spots giant methane emissions from space

It's worse than anything we imagined, but there's a silver lining: these emissions can be addressed relatively fast.