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Africa’s climate services need local detail and knowledge, say people who use the information
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (811+ words) Across Africa, people are restoring and managing mangroves, grazing lands and urban green areas in the face of increasing threats from climate change. Increasingly they make decisions based on climate-related information supplied by governments, funders and researchers. But are they…...
New fossils show Tasmanian devils lived with people in outback Western Australia 45,000 years ago
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (573+ words) Despite their name, Tasmanian devils could be found across mainland Australia thousands of years ago....
What the backlash to the Industrial Revolution can teach us about handcrafts in the age of AI
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (540+ words) Anxiety about automation dates back hundreds of years....
Africa’s rocks hold ancient stories. We need better ways to document and protect them
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (698+ words) These places are not simply beautiful. Their rocks, fossils, caves, craters and river valleys preserve evidence of ancient climates, vanished environments, human origins and changes in the Earth’s surface. They are part of Africa’s geoheritage: geological features and processes with…...
Too hot to learn: how climate change hurts children’s chances from birth
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (718+ words) Children across Europe have returned to school after a summer of extreme heat. As the climate warms, one question is becoming harder to ignore: how can students learn when classrooms become dangerously hot? Extreme weather is likely to disrupt schooling…...
Fire and floods are usually treated as separate hazards. Portugal’s Pinhal Interior shows why they are part of the same cycle
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (675+ words) Portugal, Spain and France have spent another summer confronting severe wildfires. But in Portugal, the story began months before the flames. February 2026 was the country’s wettest February in 47 years. Across much of mainland Portugal, rainfall reached three to four times…...
How beavers can help create fire breaks as part of a drought preparation plan
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (807+ words) Most of the countryside around the Holnicote estate in Somerset has been dry and dusty for most of the summer. But one corner remains conspicuously green. Here in south-west England, an animal that was made extinct in Britain in the…...
How cities can use rain gardens to help prevent flooding
1+ week, 3+ day ago (812+ words) The Canadian capital of Ottawa was bombarded with 167 millimetres of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a one-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 basement-flooding reports followed, and the worst of it hit the city’s west…...
Some of Australia’s biggest companies are planning for an unbearable climate future
1+ week, 5+ day ago (247+ words) Making sure big companies do their bit to reduce emissions is essential for Australia to meet its climate targets....
Africa’s herbarium collections are a scientific treasure. They need to be digitised before more biodiversity is lost
2+ week, 3+ day ago (754+ words) Universities and biodiversity institutes have hidden treasures: their collections of pressed plant specimens. These are plants that have been flattened, dried and mounted on special cardboard sheets. Some of them were collected centuries ago. They hold information about where species…...