CO2 emissions stay same for third year in row – despite global economy growing
by International Energy Agency report puts halt in emissions from energy down to growth in renewable power
Month: March 2017
Europe poised for total ban on bee-harming pesticides
Exclusive: Draft regulations seen by the Guardian reveal the European commission wants to prohibit the insecticides that cause ‘acute risks to bees’
Churchyards are our forgotten nature reserves
Often ignored, the ancient sites in the hearts of towns and villages have become refuges for a tremendous range of plants
Environment / News / Science
A window into the life of the wood
New Forest To some, fallen timber makes for an untidy forest. There was a time when the woodsmen would have cleared much of it away. Not now
Environment / News / Wildlife
Why you should never ever feed bread to a duck
Enough with this quackery pexels Do not feed the cute ducklings bread. Don’t even think about it. Are you on the internet right now? If …
Culture / Featured Stories / Justice / News / Science
Study reveals why so many met a sticky end in Boston’s Great Molasses Flood
In 1919, a tank holding 2.3m gallons of molasses burst, causing tragedy. Scientists now understand why the syrup tsunami was so deadly
End of the world on the edge of Skye
Fiskavaig, Skye This huge island is a complication of landscapes, and on its west coast you walk the divide between them all
Shell’s 1991 warning: climate changing ‘at faster rate than at any time since end of ice age’
Critics say public information film shows Shell ‘understood the threat was dire, potentially existential for civilisation, more than a quarter of a century ago’
• ‘Shell knew’: oil giant’s 1991 film warned of climate change danger
Mathematician Eugenia Cheng: ‘We hate having rules imposed on us’
Eugenia Cheng combines home baking with higher-dimensional category theory. She talks about pudding, infinity, and why geeks are the new alphas
‘Just racist’: EPA cuts will hit black and Hispanic communities the hardest
Proposal would remove environmental justice office, tasked with bridging gap in pollution in black, Hispanic and low-income areas and wealthier white ones