A ROUND OF A PAWS...

Three wild jaguars have been successfully tagged with special collars, allowing scientists to better monitor and understand the behaviour of this elusive species.

The project – a collaboration with WWF Brazil – made the announcement as it is estimated the recent fires raging across the

Amazon have destroyed the habitat of at least 500 of the big cats.

They say tracking will inform and improve plans to protect this nearthreatened species (IUCN Red List), against human-jaguar conflict, deforestation and the illegal wildlife trade in their skin and body parts.

Just 170,000 jaguars now remain.

A MELTING block of ice stood in for the Prime Minister after he ducked a debate on the most important issue facing humanity.

Tipping points are reached when particular impacts of global warming become unstoppable. This threatens the loss of the Amazon rainforest and the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, currently undergoing unprecedented changes.

And they warn one tipping point, such as the release of methane from melting permafrost, will fuel others, leading to dramatic cascading effects.

In the past, extreme heating of 5C was thought to be necessary to pass a tipping point but new evidence says it could be between 1C and 2C. While researchers acknowledge the complex science of tipping points means uncertainty remains, the potential damage is so big and the time to act is so short, that to “err on the side of danger is not a responsible option”. Prof Tim Lenton, at the University of Exeter and lead author of the report, said: “The simple version is the school kids [striking for climate action] are right – we are seeing potentially irreversible changes in the climate system under way, or very close.”

Johnson’s boycott not only shows the Tories are not interested in voters concerned about the environment – but how his lack of knowledge would not stand up to scrutiny.

CRISIS The melting ice floes

We may have already gone beyond some crucial climate tipping points