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Global warming has the potential to reshuffle the spaces used by life on Earth, across all ecosystems. And our new research shows whale sharks – the world’s largest fish – could be at risk, as warming oceans may force them into busy human shipping lanes.

Letter: Adam Halawi says the high quotes he got to install a heat pump made it much more expensive than a boiler, despite a higher government grant

Florida’s west coast is bracing for a historic Category 5 hurricane as Milton ‘explosively intensifies.’

Research reveals ‘sea walnuts’ fuse together if they become injured, and nervous systems merge

Authorities on France's Reunion Island have dismantled a major hazardous waste trafficking ring, arresting nine people for illegally exporting vehicle scrap contaminated with toxic materials to India.

Sub-Antarctic marine park expansion welcomed but scientists say some areas important to penguins and seals missed out on sanctuary-level protection

South Africa is immersed in a “just energy transition” from a fossil fuel-based energy system to a cleaner, low-carbon energy system. This new system will be based primarily on renewable energy, such as solar, wind and green hydrogen.

Total declared salmon catch estimated at 5,399 fish, down from 6,952 in 2022 – and 20,000 in years up to 2017

Some hurricanes are remembered for their wind damage or rainfall. Others for their coastal flooding. Hurricane Helene was a stew of all of that and more. Its near-record-breaking size, storm surge, winds and rainfall together turned Helene into an almost unimaginable disaster that stretched more than 500 miles inland from…

Microbes are hungry. All the time. And they live everywhere, in enormous numbers. We might not see them with the naked eye, but they are in soils, lakes, oceans, hydrothermal vents, our homes, and even in and on our own bodies. And they don’t just hang out there. They are…

Plans to engineer greater water flows at a floodplain along the Murray River face a battle in court, in a new battle over the preservation of the river system.