Emissions of some ozone-depleting Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) have shot up in the past six years, despite a decades-old treaty banning them…
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17 different types of plastics were found in ice samples from sea ice when German researchers investigated the presence of…
Coral bleaching events are happening much more often, and warmer oceans are a major contributing factor, but the corals are…
In the Arctic cold of Svalbard in Norway, a backup is kept with seeds from all over the world. The…
Scientists have long presumed that a powerful volcanic eruption can cool down the Earth’s climate. New research shows how these…
Geoengineering and the manipulation of the Earth’s climate could, according to some, be an effective way of protecting us from…
The presence of plastic among coral reefs increases the risk of corals suffering from various diseases. This is what an…
A previously unknown source of the greenhouse gas methane has been discovered in the Amazon. The natural leakage of methane…
Nearly 80 percent of all flying insects appear to have disappeared from central Europe over the past three decades. Researchers…
Coral reefs around the world are in decline. A combination of overfishing, nutrient pollution, and rising ocean temperatures linked to…
Scientists have, for the first time, managed to map some parts of the Antarctic ice sheet in 3D using a…