Marine life is struggling to adapt to the rapidly changing ocean environment, but its resilience is being undermined by fishing on an industrial scale. Over-fishing not only threatens...
Europe wants to lead the fight against plastic pollution. On January 18th EU member states confirmed the provisional agreement reached between the presidency of the Council and the European Parliament on...
“We have a safe port,” a crew member tells dozens of despondent asylum seekers crammed into a cabin aboard the Sea-Watch 3 NGO rescue ship. After almost three...
People’s social-media feeds have been filled with “10-year challenge” posts that juxtapose a photo of a person in 2009 and one of them in 2019.Environmental activists are using...
The world’s permafrost, layers of frozen soil that currently cover around one-sixth of the Earth’s land areas, is getting warmer due to climate change and could release dangerous...
For the last 35 years, the snowpack in the West’s mountains has resisted the impacts of global warming. But that could soon change, according to a new study...
A new study has revealed that ice mass loss in Antarctica has increased by 280 percent in recent decades, and as a result the world’s oceans will experience significant...
Sea level rise puts coastal areas at the forefront of the impacts of climate change, but new research shows they face other climate-related threats as well. In...
The oceans are warming faster than climate reports have suggested, according to a new synthesis of temperature observations published last week. The most recent report from the...