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Denmark approves construction of artificial island off the coast of Copenhagen

The island will protect the port from rising sea levels and house around 35,000 people.

Hundreds of Chinese vessels suspected of illegal fishing along Argentina's waters

They turn off their tracking systems so to avoid detection.

Cow manure and beer byproducts may replace harmful industrial pesticides while increasing yields

The organic pesticide may help improve soil health and reduce the use of potentially harmful chemicals.

Researchers travel to the bottom of the ocean and find almost intact plastic waste

Plastic waste is all over the place, even where you less expect it.

Out of tune with nature: the guitar industry's growing environmental problem

A growing awareness among musicians could help change this.

Spending 0.1% of global GDP would avoid a collapse of ecosystems, UN says

It's a small price to pay to protect nature.

"Sea snot" is covering Turkey's waters -- and climate change could be behind it

Think of something the most yucky, slimy, watery thing you can imagine -- this probably beats it.

It will take millions of years for biodiversity to recover from the crisis we caused

The world is entering into a 6th mass extinction.

Iran's groundwater resources are rapidly depleting, and everyone should pay attention

It's their problem today, but it's going to be our problem in the future.

We've changed a third of the Earth's land surface in less than 60 years

Hurray, we did it... wait, that's bad?

Conservation efforts can really help forests regrow naturally

Overall though, deforestation rates remain high throughout the world.

How Tibbles the cat possibly caused an entire species to go extinct

A cautionary tale we've failed to heed more than a century later.

Algae-based material could revolutionize the fashion industry

Soon, your future shirts or pants might be made of algae.

Off to a rocky start: Deep-sea mining robot got stranded in the ocean during trials

The activity has been questioned by scientists and environmentalists -- and the problems just keep piling on.

Goodbye, pesticides? This new robot can kill 100,000 weeds per hour using lasers

Technology is increasingly making its way to the crops.

Consumers would pay more for sustainably produced food, study finds

Time to say goodbye to monocultures and encourage crop diversification.

Japan to dump contaminated water from Fukushima into the ocean

Fishermen and neighboring countries voiced concern.

If we want to reduce global inequality, we could learn a thing or two from Mario Kart

Study finds metaphor that could be applied in the real world

No longer wasted off beer: Beer byproducts could be used for biofuels and food

Beer produces a lot of waste, but it doesn't have to leave a bitter aftertaste.

No pandemic break for rainforests: deforestation surged in 2020

It was the third-worst year since 2002, when reliable monitoring began.

Reading this? The odds are your consumer habits are causing the loss of 4 trees per year

That coffee you are drinking might be linked to deforestation.

Coffee waste can help restore degraded land and forests

A large part of Earth's land is increasingly degraded and coffee could be used to help/

Indigenous communities are the best guardians of Latin America’s forests

Indigenous communities can help protect the forests but are highly challenged by extractive industries

Land-use change is creating an infectious disease boom, study finds

Deforestation leads to infection, and we've all seen what infectious diseases can cause

Dump the plastic: Scientists create edible food packaging films from seaweed

They are water-soluble and eco-friendly, you can eat them or throw them away.

Clean energy, high yields: greenhouse plants grow just fine with semi-transparent solar cells

Solar cells and greenhouses work better than researchers thought.

A new approach to cleaning space junk is being tested in space right now

It's not meant to remove what's already there, but to stop new trash from piling up.

The pandemic has dealt a big blow to nature conservation

The world's biodiversity was suffering before. Now, it's worse.

Researchers find a way to grow wood in a lab, and it could curb global deforestation

Your future furniture might be produced with lab-grown wood

Used face masks turned into roads to tackle pandemic waste

A two-lane road would use up to 3 million masks.

Over half of all the rivers in the world have been heavily impacted by humans

We rely on river basins over the world, but we're badly mistreating them.

This Spanish city is using discarded oranges to obtain electricity

Seville didn't know what to do with all its oranges but it came up with a solution

Pirate attacks are more frequent in areas with harmful fishing practices

Yes, piracy is still a problem -- and it goes hand in hand with bad or illegal fishing practices.

Sawfish could soon become completely extinct if we don't stop overfishing, says a study

Ever seen a sawfish? Chances are you didn't because they're very endangered.

Ocean life is suffering because we're too loud, says new study

Fish aren't having a good time.

Reforesting is useful -- but there are some "golden rules" to follow

Many tree-planting projects are not being done correctly

Global ice loss rate increased by over 65% in the last two decades

People, we have to chill here. Literally.

Flooding caused by climate change is costing the US billions every year

There's more rainfall due to climate change -- and more flooding.

Almost half of the global waste is not collected properly -- and much of it is burned

It's one of the largest health crises you don't know about.

Archaeologists just found a lot of plastic at an archaeological site

More than 2,300 pieces of plastic were found in a digging site in Wales.

Trump auctions Arctic refuge to oil companies in last bid against the environment

It's a slap in the face to everyone looking towards a sustainable future.

Climate change is turning the Eastern Mediterranean into a completely new ecosystem

Sadly, it's doing it through to the death of local species.

How satellite alerts are tackling deforestation across African countries

Millions rely on tropical forests in Africa, such as the Guinean Forests. Thanks to satellites, they can be easier protected.

Mexico City kicks off the new year with a ban on single-use plastics

From forks to coffee capsules, the Latin American city takes a big step

Researchers develop a new tool to identify at-risk corals

They’re small and pretty and they need our help.

Remember Chernobyl? A new waterway could bring nuclear runoff back to the surface

The waterway would fo from Poland to Ukraine and it would be Europe's longest one

Large ecosystems collapse "over ‘human’ timescales", a new paper reports

We may take it for granted, but if pushed too far, the inner workings of mother nature will grind to a halt very fast, a new paper reports.

Rivers can change colors as time passes, and this is linked to ecosystem health

Some US waterways have become greener and others yellower, but overall many have changed.

Giant iceberg A-68a scrapes seafloor and breaks into two. Its current trajectory is unknown

It's currently drifting towards Georgia, US.

The most important news on the environment, climate and energy of 2020

It's been quite the year.

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