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Tropical plants are blooming as they gorge on our pollution

Tropical plants are blooming as they gorge on our pollution

2 February 2018

We are pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, heating the planet, but some plants are using the excess carbon dioxide to make more flowers

Box jellyfish will destroy future oceans by gobbling up the food

Box jellyfish will destroy future oceans by gobbling up the food

8 September 2017

As the oceans become more acidic thanks to greenhouse gas emissions, box jellyfish will eat far more copepods – the foundations of marine food webs

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