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First Mammal Species Recognized as Extinct Due to Climate Change
A small rodent that lived only on a single island off Australia is likely the world's first mammal to become a casualty of climate change, scientists reported in June 2016. The government...
Oil Spill From Shipwreck Threatens Solomon Islands’ World Heritage Site
The Solomon Islands prime minister has asked Australia for emergency help cleaning up an environmental disaster after oil spilled from a bulk carrier that ran aground on a coral reef near a...
Banning Single-Use Plastics ‘Could Lead to Higher Carbon Emissions’
Banning single-use plastics could lead to higher carbon emissions.That’s according to a new report published by BP, which says a worldwide ban on the use of plastics for packaging and other single-use...
Enough Plastic Produced Each Day to Make 22 Trillion Water Bottles
Enough plastic is produced each day to make almost 22 trillion water bottles.
That’s according to the National Geographic Society and Sky Ocean Ventures, which say more than 90% of this volume will...
New Chemistry Technique Turns Waste Plastic Into Clean Fuel
Waste plastic is choking the Earth’s oceans and poisoning its wildlife. That’s why researchers at Purdue University are excited about a new chemical technique that turns waste plastic back into useful polymers...
World’s Seas ‘Will Change Colour by 2100’
The world’s seas will change colour by 2100. That’s the prediction made in a new study led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and published in the Nature Communications...
Adidas Doubles Recycled Plastic Shoe Production
Adidas has announced plans to more than double the amount of shoes it is making from recycled plastic waste in 2019.
The trainer and fashion brand aims to produce 11 million pairs of...
Microplastics Found in Every Marine Mammal Surveyed in UK Study
Microplastics are being widely ingested by Britain’s marine mammals, scientists say, with samples found in every animal examined in a study.The research on 50 stranded creatures including porpoises, dolphins, grey seals and...
Lions Have Adapted to Hunt Seals and Seabirds in Namibia, Study Finds
Lions in Namibia have turned to hunting seabirds and seals in the face of scarce food resources in the desert landscape, research has found.The desert lions, which are found exclusively within the...
Antarctic Melting Increased 6x in the Past 40 Years
The results of what researchers say is the longest-running study of Antarctica's ice mass have been published, and they are dramatic. Yearly ice loss has increased by a factor of six in the...
This Robot Is Delivering Coral Babies to the Great Barrier Reef
The climate is changing faster than many species can adapt, so scientists are trying to speed up evolution by fostering the spread of creatures who can take the heat. Think of it as natural...
10 Worst-Case Climate Predictions if We Don’t Keep Global Temperatures Under 1.5 Degrees Celsius
The summer of 2018 was intense: deadly wildfires, persistent drought, killer floods and record-breaking heat. Although scientists exercise great care before linking individual weather events to climate change, the rise in global...
2018: A Year of Fighting Plastic Waste
The plastic pollution crisis has been building for some time now, to the point where around eight million tons of plastic enter the world's oceans each year.
In response, a movement to cut...
Environmental Storytelling Can Help Spread Big Ideas for Saving the Planet
Tackling climate change will require huge changes in society. Decarbonizing energy, restoring habitat and making food supply sustainable are all critical, but methods for motivating these actions have typically taken the wrong approach—by highlighting the...
World’s First Lab-Grown Steak Revealed – but the Taste Needs Work
Nascent industry aims to reduce environmental impact of beef production.
The first steak grown from cells in the lab and not requiring the slaughter of a cow has been produced in Israel.
The meat is...
The Past 5 Years Were the Arctic’s Warmest on Record
The Arctic is still warming at twice the rate of anywhere else on Earth, and the region's air temperatures in the past five years between 2014-2018 have exceeded all previous records since 1900, according...