Sam Fankhauser, University of Oxford The Scottish government has rescinded its 2030 target of a 75% emissions cut to greenhouse gas emissions, relative to 1990. The target was statutory, meaning it had been set in law in the Emissions Reduction … Continue reading
A new first-ot-its-kind green cement plant in Redding, California, has 70% lower emissions than conventional cement production. Fortera, CC BY-ND Jamie Goggins, University of Galway Aside from water, concrete is the most-used material in the world, with about 14 billion … Continue reading
Marbled white butterfly. Iain H Leach/Butterfly Conservation, CC BY-ND Marcus Rhodes, University of Exeter Butterflies are important bellwethers of environmental change. Highly sensitive to climatic conditions and undergoing large fluctuations in abundance from year to year due to vagaries of … Continue reading
StockStudio Aerials Matthew Carl Ives, University of Oxford; Belinda Wade, The University of Queensland, and Saphira Rekker, The University of Queensland Just 57 companies and nation states were responsible for generating 80% of the world’s CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels … Continue reading
Daniel Pahmeier/Shutterstock Tonya Lander, University of Oxford and Matthias Becher, University of Exeter Wild bees pollinate the crops and wild plants that feed us and sustain entire ecosystems, but many of the world’s 20,000 bee species are in decline. Loss … Continue reading
