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Opinion What in the World, a free weekly newsletter from our foreign correspondents, is sent every Thursday. Below is an excerpt. Sign up to get the whole newsletter delivered to your inbox. London: My journey on a London red bus was turning me into a Sunday roast. And it was…

The road from Enugu to a landfill site out of town was eerily quiet early on the Sunday morning a team of young scientists from the University of Nigeria readied to go sample collecting. A lone tuk-tuk chugged along a well-laid avenue lined with willow trees; there was almost no…

NASA astronauts took this photo of Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away during the Apollo 10 mission in 1969. (Image credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio) A major climate report, the U.S. government's primary, peer-reviewed climate assessment that is completed every four to five years, will not be published on NASA's…

Across South Africa, a growing movement of student-led environmental action is reshaping schools and communities. Supported by the TUI Care Foundation and Masifunde, young ‘Eco Champions’ are tackling climate change with creativity, passion, and purpose — turning rubbish into playgrounds, launching recycled materials fashion shows, and proving that youth have…

The gentle giraffe faces multiple threats across Africa. Foremost of these are habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation, poaching and climate change. Notably absent from the list of existential threats is legal trophy hunting...Read More

The City of Saskatoon should plant more trees, writes one resident. Article content In the aftermath of the July 4 Texas flood tragedy, three dominant narratives prevail as causation. These narratives mask the underlying cause. The first is that the Guadalupe River flood was a “100-year event,” something that can…

During Uncle Paul Kabai's lifetime he has seen the seasons change on his home island of Saibai, an outer island of Zenadth Kes (the Torres Strait). Uncle Paul and Uncle Pabai Pabai are so afraid for the future of their ancestral homelands that in 2021 they launched Federal Court action…

Forests are falling dangerously behind in the race against climate change. A new study reveals that tree populations typically need 100 to 200 years to respond to warming—far too slow for today’s rapid shifts. Ancient pollen records and spectral analysis show that while the climate races ahead...Read More

Pink Lake, Hutt Lagoon, Western Australia, 2020. Some of Western Australia's pink lakes are starting to turn blue. Tiny extremophiles give the salty lakes their rosy hue, but over-mining and climate change are threatening their existence. Beside the ochre-colored gorges and turquoise coastlines of Western Australia lies a surprising hue:…