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The largest increases in emissions of the greenhouse gas come from China and Southeast Asia.

The goal of the 2021 Global Methane Pledge is bold: cut methane emissions by 30% by the end of the decade. This is to buy us vital time to work on cutting carbon dioxide emissions. Over 150 nations have now signed up to the pledge – representing more than half…

Houndkirk Moor, South Yorkshire: Sooty bark disease has been afflicting many more trees this summer, but that’s not the culprit with this sapling

Trade in “exotic” pets from foreign countries is a global multibillion-dollar industry. Australian species are highly sought after.

Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south

Latin America was the most deadly region in which to defend ecosystems from mining and deforestation, with Indigenous people among half the dead

A “fast” approach to business — characterized by overconsumption across supply chains — has become almost ubiqutous in recent years.

For people in southeast Australia, springtime means soaking up the sun and getting our vitamin D levels back to baseline. But we’re not the only ones likely to be basking. Snakes are getting out and about, too.

Urban flooding is increasingly concerning in Canada, where water drainage systems are at risk of being overwhelmed. Natural watersheds have been greatly altered by construction disturbing the natural ways that water flows from rainfall, across the land and into water bodies. The result is that drainage infrastructure must cope with…

Most sick and injured koalas that wind up in the care of vets are put down, a grim new analysis of data shows.

Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation in Indigenous lands in the Amazon.