Explainer: the omega‑shaped jet stream responsible for Europe’s heatwave
Shifting air currents high up in the skies can have a big impact down on the ground.
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Citizen science heading for world domination
People from all walks of life and all corners of the world are becoming scientists. Citizen science empowers those with an interest in any area from ecology to astronomy to be a part of the scientific…
The world’s biggest ice sheet is more vulnerable to global warming than scientists previously thought
But new research offers some hope if we are able to keep climate change under control.
Billions of years ago, the rise of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere caused a worldwide deep freeze
Scientists have now dated the ‘Great Oxidation Event’ to just before the planet’s first ‘snowball’ period.
Blocking out the sun won’t fix climate change – but it could buy us time
Though climate engineering has lots of problems we need to do more than simply cut emissions.
As sea levels rise, are we ready to live behind giant walls?
A new study suggests raising dykes along a third of Europe’s coastline, but there are more cost-effective options.
Nature’s first aid kit: a fungus growing on the side of birch trees
The fungus birch polypore has a remarkable list of medicinal uses.
Can animals ever be artists?
The natural world throws up all kinds of beautiful creations, but many still say art is for humans.
‘This was something new’: what people in Greenland told us about learning to live with wildfires
It’s the new reality in an Arctic where the climate is changing fast.
We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years, says new study
The sun is more powerful today than when we last had similar levels of carbon in the atmosphere.
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