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Africa’s parks bleed large mammals

Africa’s parks bleed large mammals

Africa’s extensive network of national parks is failing to stem the decline of large mammals, according to a new study.

Climate panel to be probed

The United Nations is to commission an independent group of top scientists to review its climate change panel.

Warning on warming

New predictions of global warming outstrip earlier worst-case scenarios, reports David Adam.

New weapon in climate war is brilliant white roofs

Painting your roof white could help slow climate change by reflecting sunlight back into space. So would painting the moon.

‘Eight years to curb CO2’

Scientists warned this week that global warming will be "stronger than expected and sooner than expected", after a new analysis showed carbon dioxide is accumulating in the…

A return to the old ways

Conservation experts are to reverse five centuries of British history and deliberately allow rising sea levels to flood a huge stretch of reclaimed Essex coastline. In the most…

Calculating food miles

A UK supermarket aims to tell its consumers how much pollution is caused by the goods they buy. David Adam reports.

Is a meltdown unavoidable?

A critical meltdown of ice sheets and severe sea level rise could be inevitable because of global warming, the world’s scientists are preparing to warn their governments. New…

‘Third killer quake on the way’

A third killer earthquake may be lurking beneath the Indian Ocean, seismologists say. Last Monday’s quake was caused by an increased geological stress set up by the giant…