Just half a degree less global warming would avert food shortage
3 April 2018
Governments are dithering over whether to limit climate change to 1.5°C or 2°C, but it seems the stricter target would avoid food shortages and major economic losses
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Refusing to accept GM food is safe is like climate change denial
3 April 2018
Environmentalist Mark Lynas, who once destroyed GM crops and then made headlines by ending his opposition, is stepping up his call for reason to triumph
Shrimp and lobster are as bad for the climate as eating beef
2 April 2018
Fish and seafood are normally fairly environmentally friendly, but it takes so much fuel to catch some species that their carbon footprint is as big as that of red meat
Lost villages from centuries ago found in the Amazon rainforest
27 March 2018
Even some of the more remote parts of the Amazon rainforest, far from major rivers, were once densely populated – centuries before the arrival of Europeans
