Climate Change
A report has found that the condition of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has deteriorated since its last evaluation by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in 2014. The causes cited for this include climate change, overfishing and coral bleaching events. Experts believe its condition can be improved if strong local and global actions are taken. The reef’s status as a UNESCO World Heritage listing is at risk considering this outlook.
By failing to act right now, we’re condemning our children to a bleak or even non-existent future. The public has a right to respond to this crisis, writes Extinction Rebellion's Linda Doyle
"We like to consume things, but the more we consume the more we absorb the resources of the planet," says the government’s chief environment scientist.
The teenage climate change activist is in New York to attend the UN climate summit in September.
Bolivia's President Evo Morales said on Monday his government is working to combat raging wildfires in his country and partly blamed drought for the phenomenon. In an about-face, Morales on Sunday said he was now open to international aid to fight the blazes that have engulfed rural villages and doubled in size since Thursday.
This weekend was the hottest late August bank holiday the UK has ever seen.
The Brazilian leader said the French president must retract some of his comments, "and then we can speak".
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PM says he will prove his critics wrong and warns that it is a 'grave mistake' to think UK will go backwards after quitting EU.
Scientists in Florida have artificially induced reproductive spawning of an endangered Atlantic coral species for the first time in an aquarium setting, a breakthrough they say holds great promise in efforts to restore depleted reefs in the wild.