25 Mar 2025
Image description: Bleaching at Lakeside Reef Front, Ningaloo. Photograph: Zoe Richards/Curtin University / The Guardian. Australia’s two world heritage-listed reefs, Ningaloo on the west coast and the Great Barrier Reef on the east, are experiencing mass coral bleaching events simultaneously. Reef experts are reporting the events as “heartbreaking” and “a profoundly distressing moment”, in […]
11 Mar 2025
Ditches are human-made, linear waterways built to serve a variety of purposes, such as draining wetlands, irrigating crops and creating desirable waterfront properties. Previous research revealed that man-made ditches were responsible for emitting 3% of the total global methane emissions from human activities. Now a new study, carried out by ditch experts from the UK, […]
15 May 2023
A paper published in Nature refutes the findings of a paper by Sala et al, 2021 on the amount of CO2 released from the seabed by bottom trawling. The paper made significant headlines around the world as it equated the carbon released by bottom trawling to be of a similar magnitude to the CO2 created […]
08 Oct 2018
As part of the decision to adopt the Paris Agreement, the IPCC was invited to produce a Special Report on global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways. Finalized last week, a key message is that we are already seeing the consequences of 1°C of global warming through more […]