26 June 2020
This year is shaping up to be an average one for global forest fires, but the vital ecosystems of the Amazon and the Arctic are experiencing a second year of severe blazes
22 June 2020
The record-breaking heat that has baked Siberia for several months should serve as a “loud alarm bell” of the need to adapt to climate change, researchers say
15 May 2020
Unprecedented Arctic fires from last summer appear to have smouldered in the underground peat of the tundra through winter and reignited this month as snow melted
4 March 2020
The flooding of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in 2016 raised concerns over the future of seed backups in a warming world – so Norway made €20 million of upgrades to the facility
25 February 2020
Around 60,000 new seeds are being safeguarded in an Arctic vault, including sacred corn from the Cherokee Nation, Brazilian onions and European crab apples
11 December 2019
A strange discrepancy in global temperatures 8000 years ago can be explained if sea ice is more vulnerable to the effects of warming than we thought
11 December 2019
New Scientist was well ahead of the curve in 1979 when we warned that the 'so-called carbon dioxide greenhouse effect' threatened long-term climate change
21 October 2019
Some sites in the Arctic had already flipped from carbon sinks into sources of emissions, but new research shows the phenomenon has happened across the region as a whole
13 September 2019
An icebreaker ship is about to deliberately let itself be frozen into the drifting Arctic ice as part of the largest ever scientific Arctic expedition
28 August 2019
Thousands of hectares of Arctic forest is on fire and the effects on human health and the climate could be terrible. Why did this happen and how can we respond?
