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Rainclouds roll in over a field

Earth

Rain spawns more rain when it falls on ploughed land

As rain falls on soil it can loft tiny organic particles into the air, which help to form clouds and generate more rain. This could have consequences for climate models

News

A road with a coffee sign

Environment

Recycled coffee grounds could make roads smoother and greener

News

seed bank

Life

A new politics of climate change could save the world

Culture

A plane flies over the icey Antarctic landscape

Earth

Huge never-before-seen lake spotted hiding under Antarctic ice

News

Arjen Hoekstra

Earth

We can avoid a water crisis, but the fix will be hard to swallow

Opinion

Dried out river in Greece

Earth

A looming water crisis demands creative thinking

Leader

A group of men and women mountain climbing on the Mer de Glace, France, circa 1870

Earth

Victorians experienced early climate change but missed the signs

News

Paris climate

Earth

Do flatlining emissions make Paris climate deal more realistic?

Insight

Forest in Basel, Switzerland

Earth

Trees share vital goodies through a secret underground network

News

Water drips into the sea from an ice shelf

Earth

Record early ice melt in Greenland due to freak warm weather

Greenland's ice usually doesn't start melting much until mid-May. This April’s temperatures above 10 °C have led a tenth of the ice there to start melting already

News

Life

Lemur extinctions in Madagascar leave behind doomed orphan trees

News

Earth

Capitalism must be re-engineered if we want a low-carbon world

Comment

Earth

I'm creating supercharged corals to beat climate change

Opinion

Earth

Anger as coal mine that could damage Great Barrier Reef approved

News