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Earthshot prize: five winners that will help solve major environmental problems

Mark Maslin, UCL Climate change is one of the greatest threats ever to face humanity.…

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Melting Arctic is releasing ancient germs – how worried should we be?

Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia Scientists have recently revived several large viruses that had…

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What is sustainability accounting? What does ESG mean? We have answers

Leanne Keddie, Carleton University Sustainability is a hot topic today due to increasing awareness of…

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Why the UK needs to stop exporting plastic waste

Steve Fletcher, University of Portsmouth The world produces a vast amount of plastic. Global plastic…

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Black Friday: so many online returns end up in landfill – here’s what needs to happen to change that

Erica E.F. Ballantyne, University of Sheffield and Jonathan Gorst, Sheffield Hallam University Two of the…

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The best fiction of 2022: Zoe Gilbert’s Mischief Acts and reclaiming the myths of the natural world

Joe Bedford, University of Leicester Every culture, by and large, has its myths of the…

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4 signs of progress at COP27

Rachel Kyte, Tufts University Something significant is happening in the desert in Egypt as countries…

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If more houses had water butts, it could help with drought, flooding and water pollution

Liz Sharp, University of Sheffield; Kiera Chapman, University of Sheffield, and Ruth Quinn, Atlantic Technological…

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Climate change will force up to 113m people to relocate within Africa by 2050

Nicholas P. Simpson, University of Cape Town Adapting to a world that is warmer than…

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COP27: Which countries will push to end fossil fuel production? And which won’t?

Philippe Le Billon, University of British Columbia; Nicolas Gaulin, Wageningen University, and Päivi Lujala, University…