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October 12, 2025, 04:42 PM - 6 min read
In a new study of a 56 million-year-old fossil bird, researchers show that the distant ancestors of ostriches and other large flightless birds once flew great distances.
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September 26, 2025, 07:49 PM - 2 min read
The environment ministry has mandated cities under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to utilise at least 75 per cent of the funds disbursed so far if they want to access allocations for the FY2025-26
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September 10, 2025, 03:36 PM - 6 min read
A deadly mite, Tropilaelaps mercedesae or “tropi” is on the march. Beekeepers fear it will wreak even greater havoc than varroa – and the ripple effects may be felt by the billions of people around the world.
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August 13, 2025, 02:51 PM - 4 min read
In Geneva this week, countries including Nigeria are negotiating a treaty to end plastic pollution.
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June 2, 2025, 03:14 PM - 7 min read
Almost 90 per cent of the kids spoken to recognise climate change as a real and urgent problem, calling for intergenerational collaboration and bolder environmental mitigation and adaptation commitments.
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June 1, 2025, 05:15 PM - 7 min read
In late 2015, nations agreed through the Paris Agreement to try to hold warming well under 2°C and ideally to 1.5°C. Almost ten years later, cutting emissions to the point of meeting the 1.5°C goal looks very difficult.
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March 25, 2025, 03:18 PM - 15 min read
Millions of used UK tyres are being shipped to India to make dirty fuel harming people and the environment.
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February 17, 2025, 03:18 PM - 6 min read
Dust produced by wear of the road, tyres, and brakes, known as “non-exhaust emissions”, are now the major type of emissions from road transport, surpassing exhaust emissions across many European countries.
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January 27, 2025, 01:10 PM - 5 min read
Wood burning produces a complex chemical mixture of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and gases, which can be breathed deep into the lungs.
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January 20, 2025, 12:33 PM - 8 min read
Birds that thrive on nectar such as honeyeaters, and bossy birds with bold personalities such as noisy miners, some parrots and magpies, tend to dominate the scene. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
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November 28, 2024, 12:48 PM - 3 min read
The death toll is likely to increase in the future as climate change makes wildfires more frequent and intense.
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August 18, 2024, 10:19 PM - 2 min read
After researchers increased CO₂ levels in a forest to what will be the planetary level in the 2050s, trees took more of it from the atmosphere and their wood production increased by 10 per cent.
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