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CSIRO has told staff it will cut 92 positions in its environment unit – just days after the Australian government boosted funding to the national science agency by A$387 million. Our scientific colleagues have told us roughly a third of CSIRO’s climate modellers will lose their jobs – between four a...

How dangerous is UV radiation and how can you protect yourself when levels are high?

Successive governments have failed to prepare the UK for extreme heat, the climate watchdog says.

Gretar Ívarsson/Wikimedia Long before sunlight sustained life on the surface, Earth’s internal heat powered the deep-sea vents where scientists believe life began. The immense reservoir of heat inside Earth keeps the planet geologically active. But it can also be very useful to humans. Geothermal en...

Keep Britain Tidy awards six Blue Flags but Avon Beach misses out because of a slip-up.

Wokephoto17/Getty Indonesia plans to build a “giant sea wall”, more than 500 kilometres long, to defend Java’s north coast from rising sea levels. The proposal includes a large lagoon behind the colossal concrete wall, raising significant questions about the feasibility and cost of such a giant pro...

Could locally-sourced wool restore peatlands and reduce the carbon cost of conservation?

The fresh air, picturesque vistas and pristine bush of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney draw millions of visitors a year. Unfortunately, the Blue Mountains are also the site of a controversial investigation into water contamination with “forever chemicals”, also called PFAS. Our recent study invest...

Thanks to a restorative justice programme, Joan Scourfield is sharing a stage with the man who killed her son to talk about forgiveness The post Life after: confronting a killer appeared first on Positive News.