Plant life on Antarctica is growing rapidly due to climate change, scientists have found. Few plants live on the continent, but scientists studying moss have found a sharp increase in biological activity in the last 50 years. A team including scientists from the University of Exeter used moss bank cores ...
Coffee lovers could be left tired and grumpy as heatwaves caused by global warming threaten to decimate coffee crops. Even the predicted short bursts of hot temperatures expected this century could lead to heat stress wilting the plants and stopping them producing flowers and fruit. That means there will be ...
Kyla Mandel Editor of Desmog UK has been investigating the hidden contriving between shady fossil fuel lobbyists, prominent climate deniers, secretive think tanks, false news propagandists and government figures to subvert the unprecedented global consensus to tackle climate change of the Paris Agreement signed last year to achieve a crucial reduction in ...
Many environmentalists were worried about Donald Trump becoming US President after a number of comments seemingly dismissive of global warming and its dangers to the planet. In one tweet he wrote: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." ...
Forget cutting edge green technology, according to a new scientific study bird poop could be the key to combating climate change. Researchers at the Colorado State University who are working to better understand key components of Arctic climate systems have linked ammonia emissions from summertime Arctic seabird-colony excrement, called guano, to ...
A paper written by James Hanson, an ex-Nasa climate scientist, and a number of other leading experts in the field have reported that the earth is now as hot as it has been for 115,00 years. The worrying news is further compounded by their claims that climate change has contributed ...
Almost all scientists agree that climate change is a fact and a huge issue that could wipe humans from the planet, but sadly quite a lot of people don't think it is real. Well step forward a newly elected Australian politician who thinks climate change is in fact a climate ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor An “alarming” and “unprecedented” rate of climate change taking places across the planet, the World Meteorological Organisation has warned. The WMO, which is a United Nations body, reported on a number of climate and weather records that were broken last year. These included increased rainfall, ...
Callum Towler, Stephen Adams and Owen Black chat about the the outcome of the Paris climate summit, exploring the inability for a lot of people to care about something so seemingly far into the future, how we consume and whether the prevailing political model can ever achieve sustainability.