By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News23 February 2011 Three-quarters of the world's coral reefs are at risk due to overfishing, pollution, climate change and other factors, says a major new assessment. Reefs at Risk Revisited collates the work of...
Smoke billows at night during a fire in an area of the Amazon rain forest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil, on 17 August 2019. Photo: Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters 24 August 2019 (AFP) – Hundreds of new fires are raging...
SAFFRON HOWDEN, TOM ARUP AND BEN CUBBYApril 6, 2010 A PLUG made of compressed coral and held in place by water pressure is likely to be the only thing stopping more than 900 tonnes of oil gushing from a grounded...