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Environment

The most encouraging climate solutions and green technologies of 2024

Renewable energy continued to grow in 2024, and there were other hopeful developments in technologies aiming to reverse the rise in greenhouse gas emissions

News

A single snow crystal in close up

Video

Supersized snowflakes: A scientific quest to make enormous snow

Video

Environment

Global forecast for 2025 sees temperatures falling back below 1.5°C

News

Science can be our trusty shield in a time of deepening crises

Physics

Science can be our trusty shield in a time of deepening crises

Comment

A man makes his way at a hill as African dust from the desert of Sahara covers the city of Athens, Greece, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC2FC7ATEP85

Environment

Climate chaos accelerated in 2024 as we hit 1.5°C for the first time

News

From enshittocene to virome, science and technology's words of 2024

Society

From enshittocene to virome, science and technology's words of 2024

Features

2KEFP4Y London, England, UK. 12th Nov, 2022. A protester outside Shell HQ holds a sign referencing the film 'Don't Look Up'. Thousands of people gathered outside Shell Headquarters in London and marched to Trafalgar Square as part of the Global Day of Action for Climate Justice as world leaders meet in Egypt for COP27. (Credit Image: ?? Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press Wire) Credit: ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy Live News

Environment

After another dire year for the environment, here's to better times

Comment

Lidar and crest lines, Tugunbulak Credit: SAIElab, J. Berner, M. Frachetti https://press.springernature.com/large-scale-medieval-urbanism-traced-by-uav-lidar-in-highland-ce/50086460

Technology

High-tech archaeology shows we aren't the first to endure hard times

Comment

Members of the Indigenous People Association stage a protest to demand action on climate change, holding big head cut-outs of world leaders U.S. President Joe Biden, China's President Xi Jinping, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, on the waters of Botafogo Bay, ahead of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil November 16, 2024. REUTERS/Tuane Fernandes SEARCH

Environment

To fix the world's problems, we need both optimism and pessimism

Leader

Scenic landscape with tundra, lonely mountain and moon. In June in the Arctic in the tundra, not all snow has melted yet. Beautiful nature of the far North. Anadyr tundra, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia.; Shutterstock ID 1602740413; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Environment

Arctic tundra is now a source – not a sink – of carbon emissions

For millennia, Arctic ecosystems have stored more carbon dioxide than they release, but that has shifted as warming temperatures have boosted wildfires and melted permafrost in the north

News

Environment

Extreme heat may rapidly sap the ocean’s ability to absorb CO2

News

Video

Why Kelly and Zach Weinersmith are sceptical about a future on Mars

Video

Environment

We finally have an explanation for 2023’s record-breaking temperatures

News

Life

The extraordinary ways species control their own evolutionary fate

Features

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