Georgina RannardClimate and science correspondentProf Daniel J Mayor @oceanplanktonA tiny, obscure animal often sold as aquarium food has been quietly protecting our planet from global warming by undertaking an epic migration, according to new research.These "unsung heroes" called zooplankton gorge themselves and grow fat in spring before sinking hundreds of metres into the deep ocean in Antarctica where they burn the fat.This locks away as much planet-warming carbon as the annual emissions of roughly 55 million petrol cars, stopping it from further warming our atmosphere, according to researchers.This is...
Tim DoddClimate and science reporterEPABanning or charging for plastic bags is helping stop them ending up on US shorelines, a study of the country's...
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Niede Guidon, a Brazilian archaeologist whose work called into question a longstanding theory of how the Americas were first populated by humans, and who...