Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics
Up to 42,000 tonnes a year of microplastics are removed from sewage, spread on fields as fertiliser and eventually wash back into watercourses.
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We found long‑banned pollutants in the very deepest part of the ocean
No place on Earth is free from pollution.
Climate change ‘hotspots’: why they matter and why we should invest in them
Some areas expecting big environmental changes already have large, vulnerable populations.
Ancient four‑legged whales once roamed land and sea
Our flippered friends evolved from small, hooved deer-like creatures more than 50m years ago.
Explainer: what are ice cores?
Ice cores are cylinders of ice drilled from glaciers and ice sheets. When snow falls it takes with it a record of many aspects of the atmosphere. As long as no melting takes place, this information is…
It’s too early to talk about climate change refugees in Bangladesh
Climate change will certainly affect Bangladesh but claims of climate change refugees are premature.
A ‘super El Niño’ could make India’s monsoon drier yet more dangerous
El Niño summers can mean less rain overall, but more extreme daily rainfall.
India’s monsoon is becoming more extreme – even though overall rainfall has hardly increased
Wilder, not wetter: climate change means extreme downpours are becoming far more common.
How India and Pakistan are competing over the mighty Indus river
Hydropower dams in upstream India have left Pakistanis worried.
As Bolivia’s glaciers melt, new lakes threaten mountain communities
Bolivia is home to nearly a fifth of the world’s tropical glaciers. but they are shrinking at an alarming rate.
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