Africa calls for climate justice
Africa is running out of water In the event of a global temperature increase of two degrees Celsius (35.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the World Bank predicts that southern Africa would experience up to...
Sharks and scorpions? The world’s deadliest animals aren’t what you thought
1. Mosquitoes People killed each year: around 725,000. In places like Germany, they are just a nuisance, elsewhere they can be harbingers of death. And again it is the diseases they carry, not the...
Animals in Europe making a comeback
When people think of endangered animals, images of fluffy pandas munching on bamboo in Asian forests or hulking great rhinos trundling across African plains usually spring to mind. But Europe is...
Trinity: when the nuclear weapons age began
On July 16, 1945, at 5:29 a.m., scientists conducted the first nuclear weapon test ever. Its codename: Trinity. The United States Army wanted to observe the effects of its atomic bomb in real life...
Insects: Winners and losers of climate change
Fuzzy pollinators Global warming is shrinking the habitat where bumblebees can live in North America and Europe. These pollinators in particular tend to overheat due to their large size, dark color...
CHANGING FACES OF ANIMALS WE THINK WE KNOW
Walrus “I am a walrus,” as sung the Beatles, was in reference to Lewis Caroll’s “The Walrus and the Carpenter” in which the former is a villain. The specimen pictured...
Typhoon Chan-hom batters eastern China
A farmer walks in a flooded watermelon field after heavy rainfall from Typhoon Chan-hom hit Sanmen county, Zhejiang province. Tourists hold umbrellas as they tour the West Lake battered by strong...
10 moments that shaped environmental activism
Galvanizing the anti-nuclear movement On July 10, 1985, the French secret service used underwater mines to sink the “Rainbow Warrior,” killing Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira....
