As world leaders struggle to meet deadlines to halt nature loss set four years ago, a rare leopard in host country Armenia offers a symbol of what is at stake Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here The Armenian capital Yerevan is chock-a-block right now with officials, scientists and environmentalists from all over the world gathering for Cop17.
Moment octopus escapes death after hunt gone wrong. The sequence is part of the latest Blue Planet series from Sir David Attenborough.
People succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer, new research suggests, with scientists blaming climate breakdown for two in every three of the deaths. Morgues and funeral homes filled with bodies from June to August as the heat added by planet-baking pollution cut short an extra 32,000 lives in urban areas, the researchers found.
The world is set to breach the critical 1.5-degree temperature limit, with Donald Trump's US withdrawal from climate action worsening the outlook, according to a UN report. But there is a small silver lining.