Summon the bee bots: Can flying robots save our crops?
13 November 2013
If bees are dropping like flies, robot insects may have to pollinate our fields. Building them is a huge task, but there are other ways for robots to aid bees
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The shaman's-eye view: A Yanomami verdict on us
13 November 2013
In The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami shaman, Davi Kopenawa looks from the other side of the anthropological lens – and the result is a literary treasure
Get off the carbon train soon or the world is stuffed
13 November 2013
Runaway warming beckons – if levels of carbon dioxide keep rising, the climate will become ever more sensitive to each extra tonne
Primeval planet: What if humans had never existed?
13 November 2013
What was the planet like before Homo sapiens, and would it still be that way if we had never gone global? We rewind time, erase our ancestors, and hit play
Air pollution blights London life
13 November 2013
In almost half of London boroughs, the proportion of deaths from air pollution rose between 2010 and 2011, probably because of diesel-fuelled vehicles
Natural disasters don't have to be human disasters
13 November 2013
We need to take more decisive action to move people out of harm's way before disaster strikes
Social media helps aid efforts after typhoon Haiyan
12 November 2013
For the first time in a disaster of this scale, volunteers are mining social media to give aid workers in the Philippines maps of who needs help where
