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The human voice is a sonic fingerprint - and Greta Thunberg’s tells a powerful story.
Automation can be a more efficient use of resources, but it may also mean people consume more.
Humans consume excessive resources with little or no benefits to well-being – and the politics of our economy are to blame. To counter the influence of industries in democracy, we must strike.
We asked a media studies researcher why climate change doesn’t make more of a splash in the press.
As the UN’s Climate Action Summit approaches, governments need to start doing more than setting targets. Here’s how they can make a start.
What has just happened may represent the irreplaceable loss of a small but nonetheless precious part of the planet’s biological heritage.
Humans did not always see themselves as he separate from the natural world. If we are to reverse its decline, we must re-entangle ourselves with it.
Climate engagement still tends to increase with education and income.
At current rates of reduction, the UK’s fair carbon budget will be spent in just four years’ time.
Misinformation and lies are regularly used to undermine the science of climate change – here’s how to see through the fog.
Diving animals are incredible athletes.
Many return to dangerous evacuation zones fully understanding the risks. New research explains why.
As a human evolution researcher, I was very excited to work with the creator of the Assassin’s Creed games.
The monster trees are almost 90m tall, and may make the Amazon’s northeast a much greater carbon sink than previously thought.
Humans have never known a world without the Araucaria. But rising temperatures and changing rainfall mean that the extinction of these majestic trees may be just a generation or two away.
The Western Ghats are a global biodiversity hotspot, but urgently need better legal protection.
The largest reproductive event on the planet is under threat.
The design of the global money game is the real antagonist in the fight against climate change. But the call to arms tends to be directed at the players who have had best luck with the dice.
The Amazon will take a lifetime to recover from this year’s fires – if it ever does.
Rainforest fires heat the planet, but the degraded forest left behind has far more consequences for the local environment.
After five centuries of extraction, the Amazon region stands on the brink.
Following a vegan lifestyle isn’t always easy. Navigating its burdens can signal a new you.
Fish that live in the sea have found amazing ways to control the amount of water and salt in their bodies, and stay hydrated.
Putting all of our eggs in the net zero basket is merely kicking the can down the road.