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We have barely begun to tap into the pharmaceutical potential of the most diverse animals of all.
Understanding the best food option is getting complicated. Enter the new flexitarians.
Food, water and climate are complex, interconnected systems that when disrupted can cause severe social and political shocks.
Ecologically sound housing needs to be built on a much larger scale.
Falling costs and better infrastructure are making the transition easier for drivers.
We have the penis of a monogamous primate yet our body sizes suggest our ancestors slept around a lot.
Rich countries waste a lot of food. Producers and consumers need to rethink eating habits if this problem is to be solved.
Many people are suspicious of GM crops, but new techniques could massively increase food production.
Cars, clothes, diamonds and jets: it’s time we addressed just how much the wealthy are hurting the planet.
Nearly two-thirds of the billion people suffering food insecurity are themselves farmers. Here’s how some are protecting themselves.
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to global food insecurity except that the West needs to learn to consume, and waste, less.
French company Seabubbles provides new transport concept which aims to see the people of Paris using water instead of roads.
Our closest relatives are being wiped out and it’s all our fault.
It risks becoming the first ape to go extinct.
It seems Trump and his appointees already accept more global warming science than they are prepared to let on.
The world’s largest trader is closing down.
Regional solutions can spread across the planet.
This is what neo-colonialism looks like in the 21st century.
Scientists correctly realised there was an increasing risk of major flooding. But they didn’t know humans were to blame.
Mining brings some benefits to some but when extraction is over, the lack of wider benefits to all is keenly felt.
A swampy area the size of England stores as much carbon as 20 years of US fossil fuel emissions.
Most passengers have no idea how bad air travel is for the environment.
The species died out long before humans could properly study it.
The country’s electricity is now the cleanest it has been in 60 years.