Natural World

As Marine Week kicks off, we take a look at some of the tech projects being developed around the world to cool our oceans – but could they have unintended consequences on the world’s seas?

Fossil fuel emissions must be reduced to counter deadly climate-change-induced heatwave and wildfires, say scientists

Every day NASA tracks thousands of asteroids – some the size of sky scrapers, houses and buses – to ensure they don’t come too near Earth and has even carried out a mission to successfully divert a huge space rock

Indigenous stewardship, plant-based diets and quitting fossil fuels for good are key to safeguarding our remaining rainforests which are the lungs of the planet

The reintroduction of a crash of white rhinos heralds plans for national breeding programme

As extreme weather makes many places inhospitable because of global warming, climate scientists have listed the top and least desirable places to live according to climate change

The Cambodia-UK rehabilitation project looking after Chhouk have called the prosthetic ‘amazing’

Global warming is exacerbating the effects of the climate-changing El Niño phenomenon which, when it arrives later this year, will make the world hotter and the UAE wetter

On World Honeybee Day we report on the uncertain future of earth’s most important pollinators