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11 February 2022
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RPS Science Photographer of the Year winners and runners up announced
12 February 2021
From the dramatic decline of Arctic ice to a colourful dinosaur bone and bubble beats, enjoy the winners of the RPS Science Photographer of the Year competition
David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste
25 October 2019
Seven Worlds, One Planet, David Attenborough’s stunning celebration of Earth’s biodiversity, prepares a new generation to save a beautiful world
David Attenborough's Our Planet on Netflix is beautiful but empty
4 April 2019
The veteran naturalist lays the blame for Earth’s increasingly fragile ecosystem on humans, yet the stunning visuals in Netflix’s Our Planet add little to the genre
Cycling race footage highlights climate change effects on trees
3 July 2018
Historical footage of the Tour of Flanders shows that trees have been flowering earlier since the 1980s
EU will limit the use of palm oil as car fuel but won’t stop it
14 June 2018
The European Union will make only minor tweaks to “renewable” energy policies that are actually increasing greenhouse gas emissions and driving deforestation
Africa's 2000-year-old trees of life are suddenly dying off
11 June 2018
In the past decade most of the oldest baobabs, many of them sprouted over two millennia ago, have died unexpectedly and few new ones are sprouting
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming
24 May 2018
The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago caused dramatic climate change, which could mean we are underestimating how much the planet will warm in the coming centuries
Plants love carbon dioxide, but too much could be bad for them
19 April 2018
Most plants were expected to grow more as CO2 levels rise, but a 20-year experiment suggests that the extra CO2 is somehow stunting plant growth, which could make climate change worse
Most UK plants will flower at once in short ‘condensed spring’
17 April 2018
Plants in the UK are set to blaze into flower virtually simultaneously, because flowering has been delayed two weeks by the unusually cold weather
