Reef protection, despite official advice recommending against the projects, or repeatedly finding them to be failing.

The contracts include millions of dollars for tourism operators to cull out-of-control coral-eating crown of thorns starfish. Funds continue to be distributed, despite researchers employed to evaluate the program repeatedly finding it to have failed, and potentially having made the problem worse.

It also includes $2.2m spent on an unusual project involving giant fans installed

Scientists have a new, narrower estimate of "climate sensitivity," a measure of how much the climate could warm in response to the release of greenhouse gases.

The new study, published in Nature, refines this estimate to 2.8°C, with a corresponding range of 2.2 to 3.4°C. If correct, the new estimates could reduce the uncertainty surrounding climate sensitivity by 60 percent.

The narrower range suggests that global temperature rise is "going to shoot over 1.5°C" above pre-industrial levels,

A team of divers in eastern Mexico have discovered what’s believed to be the longest underwater cave in the world, just three miles west of the white sand beaches of Tulum.

The findings confirm that the vast, 164-mile-long Sistema Sac Actun, a waterlogged system of natural sinkholes, or cenotes, is actually connected to the nearby 52-mile-long Dos Ojos system, bringing the total length of the caves to a winding 216 miles. That’s more than the combined height of 24 Mount Everests stacked on top

The utility in question is Xcel Energy, Colorado’s biggest, which serves 3.3 million electricity customers in the upper Midwest, Colorado, and New Mexico.

In 2016, Xcel released its Colorado Energy Proposal, which was news in itself. The utility proposed to shut down two coal plants in the state and replace their output with roughly 700 MW of solar, 1 GW of wind, and 700 MW of natural gas by 2023. That would put Xcel’s Colorado energy mix at roughly 55 percent renewables.

We are destroying the world’s biodiversity. Yet debate has erupted over just what this means for the planet – and us.

Just over 250 million years ago, the planet suffered what may be described as its greatest holocaust: ninety-six percent of marine genera (plural of genus) and seventy percent of land vertebrate vanished for good. Even insects suffered a mass extinction – the only time before or since. Entire classes of animals – like trilobites – went out like a match in the wind.

In a study published this weekend in the journal Environmental International, a team of researchers from the University of Exeter found that regular surfers and bodyboarders are four times as likely as normal beach-goers to harbor bacteria with high likelihoods of antibiotic resistance. This is because surfers typically swallow ten times more seawater during a surf session than sea swimmers.

Australians love cooking with gas, but what if you could make your own supply, using leftover food waste? It may be time for more households to embrace home biogas – and stop paying gas bills.

The pollution-beleaguered country plans to increase forest coverage to 23 percent of its total landmass by the end of the decade.

In addition to the abundance of trees, the government has enacted an “ecological red line” program, reports Stanway, a plan that will require provinces and regions to restrict “irrational development” and limit building near rivers, forests and national parks. Fifteen provinces have already created plans, with the other 16 provinces to follow suit this year.

New science sheds more light on recent controversy over how much the large carnivores are being impacted by melting sea ice.

Polar Bears Really Are Starving Because of Global Warming, Study Shows
New science sheds more light on recent controversy over how much the large carnivores are being impacted by melting sea ice.


POV FOOTAGE SHOWS POLAR BEARS STRUGGLING TO FIND FOOD
By Stephen Leahy
PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Millions have seen the heart-wrenching video of a polar bear clinging

Researchers say it’s a crucial step towards cheaper and more environmentally-friendly energy storage

The USDA Forest Service reveals that cities and communities are losing 175,000 acres of tree cover annually, while pavement, roads, and buildings are increasing.

On Saturday, engineers plan to tow a gigantic floating boom out of San Francisco Bay, past Alcatraz prison, and to the open ocean. It is destined to begin cleaning up the mountains of plastic rubbish circulating in the Pacific. But is this the right way to do it?

The idea of the project, called The Ocean Cleanup, is to collect plastic passively. As waves lap against the boom, the buoyant rubbish fragments should collect against it. Any drifting animals such as jelly fish, should be washed underneath.

The ‘de-extinction’ of vanished wild animals, from the woolly mammoth to the Pyrenean ibex, raises deep questions about our relationship to nature

New research has connected hundreds of mummified penguin carcasses to two disastrous weather events thought to be influenced by climate change. The study, which was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences, warns that these events might foreshadow what's to come if the Earth continues to get hotter. A team of Chinese and Australian researchers found the mummified Adélie penguins under a remarkably thick layer of sediment in Long Peninsula, East Antarctica,

If you aren't fond of spiders, this scene will sound like a nightmare. A 300-metre-long (1,000-foot) field of spiderweb has sprung up in western Greece in the town of Aitoliko. As you can see in the video below, its covering everything from trees to shrubs near a lagoon on the shores of the town. The spiders are likely from the genus Tetragnatha, which are commonly known as stretch spiders due to their stretched-looking, elongated bodies. They live in many areas around the world, including

As representatives gather in Poland for talks on climate change, we look at how hot the world has got and what can we can all do to tackle global warming.