The cultural significance of Tu BiShvat has taken on new meaning in modern Israel.
Teddy Brauner/National Photo Collection, Government Press Office (Israel)
Restoring entire ecosystems is a difficult and expensive process. Thankfully, certain species, called ecosystem engineers, can make restoration easier. Gaining social and political support is critical too.
Considering veganism as bigger than your own dietary choices can free you from futile debates about what is and isn’t acceptable on the plate.
People walk past an art installation by Turkish-American artist Refik Anadol at the 2023 World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Laurent Gillieron / EPA-EFE
Leaders must find new ways to measure development and economic progress and to co-operate on prioritising human and environmental security over profits.
Plastic waste washed up by the sea lies on the beach of the coastal city of St. Louis, Senegal.
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Holidays should be a time for children to relax both their bodies and their brains.
NIF’s target chamber, where a powerful laser is used to start nuclear fusion reactions.
Photo by Jason Laurea/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
A US national lab has proved we can the fusion process can be used to produce energy, but it’s just the first step in a very long process.
Issa chimpanzees live in a woodland dominated environment interspersed with riparian forests, grasslands, and rocky out-crops.
Photo: R. Drummond-Clarke/GMERC
Thomas Burelli, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Alexandre Lillo, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); Alycia Leonard, University of Oxford; Elie Klee, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Erin Dobbelsteyn, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Justine Bouquier, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa, and Lauren Touchant, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
The historic agreement on a loss and damage fund was overshadowed by lack of progress on phasing out fossil fuels.
A herder grazes cattle alongside wildlife in Samburu, Kenya.
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Mike Davis’s radical urban history of LA was a trailblazing book that remains startlingly relevant to those of us who live in other supersizing cities in the early 21st century.
A mangrove seed at Nxaxo estuary on South Africa’s Wild Coast.
J. Raw