Human Interest

The real cause of our environmental crisis is captalism, says the Guardian writer George Monbiot

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Behavioural evidence suggests marine organisms are not just ingesting microplastics by accident but actively seeking them out as food

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Some global corporations are trying to address the environmental impact of throwaway culture, but campaigners say they remain part of the problem

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Humans must start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as soon as possible to avoid saddling future generations with a choice between extreme climate change or spending hundreds of trillions of dollars to avoid it, according to new research. An international team of researchers – led by Professor Jim Hansen, Nasa’s former climate science chief – said their conclusion that the world had already overshot targets to limit global warming to within acceptable levels was “sufficiently grim” to force them to urge “rapid emission reductions”.

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Climate scientist Chris Rapley and his co-author of the acclaimed play 2071 explain why the 2015 Paris climate summit cannot be allowed to fail – for all our sakes

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Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn group, is covered by 18 tonnes of plastic – the highest density of anthropogenic debris recorded anywhere in the world

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The problem is staggering, and it'll get worse if we do nothing.

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The company says it's committed to recycling, but a new Greenpeace report says that's not enough.

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His sequel to The Blue Planet will focus not only on the marvels of sea life but also the threats to it. The naturalist explains why plastic pollution, climate change and overpopulation are problems too urgent to be left to ecologists

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Wayne Lotter had received numerous death threats while battling international ivory-trafficking networks

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In 1998 Charles Moore, an oceanographer, was sailing across the North Pacific when he made an unwelcome discovery.  “As I gazed from the deck at the surface of what ought to have been a pristine ocean, I was confronted, as far as the eye could see, with the sight of plastic,” Moore wrote in Natural History magazine. 

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Acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change and a cynic about the nature of academic research. But through hi

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A new gold rush is targeting rich ores on the ocean floor containing valuable metals needed for smartphones and green technologies, but also hosting exotic ecosystems

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A new Columbia University study is challenging the accuracy of methods used by the IUCN to determine conservation status.

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Donald Trump is a creep and unpleasant to look at, but at least he’s not a stunning hypocrite when it comes to climate change

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