Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record, scientists said Tuesday…
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Catch this week's supermoon, biggest and brightest of year
A supermoon rises in the sky this week, looking to be the biggest and brightest of…
More pavement, more flooding problems
Think your daily coffee, boutique gym membership and airport lounge access cost a lot? There may…
Innovative birds are less vulnerable to extinction
Bird species that have the capacity to express novel foraging behaviours are less vulnerable to extinction…
Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions
Some of the tiniest creatures on the planet are vital for the environment. But there is…
NASA finds heavy rainfall in powerful tropical cyclone Harold
One of NASA’s satellites that can measure the rate in which rainfall is occurring in storms…
Societal transformations and resilience in Arabia across 12,000 years of climate change
Today, the Arabian Peninsula is one of the most arid regions in the world. But its…
The ocean's 'biological pump' captures more carbon than expected
Every spring in the Northern Hemisphere, the ocean surface erupts in a massive bloom of phytoplankton.…
Climate change encouraged colonisation of South Pacific Islands earlier than first thought
Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton has found settlers arrived in East Polynesia…
Indigenous knowledge could reveal ways to weather climate change on islands
Some islands have such low elevation, that mere inches of sea-level rise will flood them, but…