Rising temperatures will radically affect how much Antarctic ice melts — and the impact is likely to be irreversible.

Infernos in South America’s Pantanal region — the world’s largest tropical wetland — have burnt twice the area of California’s fires this year.

Record-breaking fires in California will probably ravage more than 1.5 million hectares over 2020.

Plant “species are disappearing faster than we can find and name them”, says Alexandre Antonelli, the director of science at the Royal Botanic Gardens