For the first time, environmental concerns are the top five global risks in the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report. The health of the ocean – or lack of it – is everywhere. 2019 was the hottest year ever recorded for the ocean, capping the hottest decade on record for the planet. The ocean, which feeds...Read More

The wide-scale introduction of large herbivores to the Arctic tundra to restore the “mammoth steppe” grassland ecosystem and mitigate global warming is economically viable, suggests a new paper from the University of Oxford. Grazing animals such as horses and bison are known to engineer the landscape around them, for example suppressing the growth of trees...Read More