Climate Change & Global Warming

Environment bill to include legally binding targets to curb plastic waste and air pollution

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Legally-binding targets to curb plastic waste and reduce air pollution will form part of new environment bill An environment bill is being introduced in PM’s bid to ‘build back greener’     Goals to focus on less waste, cleaner air, cleaner water and more biodiversity  The Daily Mail has long campaigned against plastic polluting the seas and … Read more

Hundred-year-old photos show how treeline has crept up the Rockies due to climate change 

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Brave pioneers trekked through unknown parts of the Canadian Rockies a century ago to take photographs of the region and build the area’s first topographical maps. Fast forward to present day and scientists are using these timeless pictures to understand how much of the landscape has evolved over the past 100 years. The team replicated … Read more

Global warming: Greenland glaciers pass ‘point of no return’

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Greenland’s glaciers have already passed the ‘point of no return’ beyond which the ice would continue to melt away even if global warming stopped, a study has found. Experts from the US used nearly 40 years of satellite data to measure the annual rate of ice loss and snow accumulation on 200 large glaciers around … Read more

Global warming: Greenland’s glaciers are already past the ‘point of no return’

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Greenland’s glaciers have already passed the ‘point of no return’ beyond which the ice would continue to melt away even if global warming stopped, a study has found. Experts from the US used nearly 40 years of satellite data to measure the annual rate of ice loss and snow accumulation on 200 large glaciers around … Read more

Woolly rhinos were wiped out by climate change not human hunters

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Human hunters were not responsible for killing off the woolly rhino, according to a new study of the extinct creature’s genome that found climate change is to blame.  Experts from Stockholm University sequenced ancient DNA taken from 14 woolly rhinoceros fossils to find out the state of their population near the end of their existence. … Read more

Dog lover James Middleton shares his advice on keeping pets cool in the heat

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The Duke of Sussex will credit sport with helping bring people ‘back from the darkest places’ as he appears in a new Netflix documentary. Prince Harry, 35, who is currently living in a $14 million mansion in Santa Barbara, stars in a new Netflix documentary Rising Phoenix, which is set to air on the platform on … Read more

Ben & Jerry’s goes on Twitter attack over Home Secretary’s call for Navy to police the Channel 

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Priti Patel’s migrant war… against Ben & Jerry’s: Ice cream giant goes on Twitter attack over Home Secretary’s call for Navy to police the Channel Ben & Jerry’s criticised Priti Patel for calls to stop migrants crossing the Channel The American company’s British account tweeted ‘people cannot be illegal’ The Home Secretary has looked into … Read more

Pesticides and fertilisers now largest human source of sulphur

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Pesticides and fertilisers have overtaken fossil fuels as the largest human source of sulphur in the environment, study shows Sulphur is one of the key components of acid rain which can harm ecosystems  Regulations of fossil fuel emissions have helped reduce this form of damage US experts have found sulphur used in farming is now … Read more

Zero-emission ammonia-fuelled aeroplanes could take to the skies ‘within years’

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Zero-emissions aeroplanes could take to the skies ‘within years’ thanks to British scientists who are developing technology that will allow them to run on ammonia. The collaboration between Oxford-based Reaction Engines and the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council could see ammonia replace kerosene as jet fuel. Unlike kerosene-based jet fuel, ammonia is less of a fire … Read more