Preventing the worst impacts of climate change will require a more sustainable shipping industry, according to a new report. In High Seas: High Stakes, experts from...
Climate change is decimating populations of tiny species that live on the seabed of the Antarctic shore, threatening ecosystem stability and life higher up the food...
The government must increase spending on flood defences if a repeat of the floods that devastated many parts of the UK last winter is to be...
The amount of water in ponds that collect on top of ice floes during periods of spring warming can help predict how much the Arctic will...
Far beneath the flat, tranquil surface of northern Greenland’s ice sheet, scientists have discovered vast ice structures as tall as skyscrapers and as wide as the...
May 2014 was the third warmest May since global temperature satellite measurements began 35 years ago, scientists have revealed. The global average temperature for the month was...
Dozens of plant and tree species are under threat as they fail to adapt to warming temperatures, a University of Cambridge study has found. Species including...
Incidents of extreme flooding strengthen Britons’ belief in climate change, while warnings over rising temperatures fail to resonate, a new study has found. The paper, published...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
US president Barack Obama has acknowledged the warnings of climate scientists and financial analysts that the majority of known fossil fuel reserves must never be used...
Environmental campaigners and local and central government must do more to encourage activism at home, according to a new report that calls for “a revolution in...
Some 67 University of Oxford academics, including the former science adviser to the British government, have called on the institution to divest from fossil fuel companies....
Ocean waves larger than 3 metres in height can travel hundreds of kilometres below the ice before dispersing, scientists have shown. These higher waves have been...
At a recent event at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres invited individuals not to simply leave the grand building with inspiring...
The melting of the Arctic will make the region more vulnerable to alien and invasive species, because of increased shipping and transport activity, scientists have warned....