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2T96G2H Harvesting shrimp in a shrimp farm in Loc An, Ba Ria Vung Tau, Vietnam

What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?

30 July 2025

Saving the planet means factoring nature into our economics, argues Partha Dasgupta, in a book with fascinating ideas. But does it take passion to make people listen?

Exposure to microplastic makes animals want to eat it more

18 July 2025

Over multiple generations, small nematode worms began preferring microplastic-contaminated food over cleaner options, which could have consequences for ecosystem health
Have we found an unlikely solution to the climate impact of flying?

Have we found an unlikely solution to the climate impact of flying?

16 July 2025

Aviation is probably the single hardest industry to decarbonise. Sustainable fuels aren't the answer, but Mike Berners-Lee thinks there is one at hand
Incredible images show a huge iceberg drifting dangerously close to the shore in Greenland this week. The towering structure has been edging closer to a harbour in Innaarsuit, where local authorities have issued warnings to the public. It is now near the Royal Greenland fish factory and the local food store, where people are being advised to take care when visiting.

Greenland village has close encounter with giant iceberg

16 July 2025

A huge iceberg has been towering above Innaarsuit in Greenland for a week
Sentinel-5 seafloor scene

Could undersea living be the future as sea levels rise?

4 June 2025

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, we journey to 2035, when undersea living became a reality. Rowan Hooper tells us how it happened
F5F7KW Wheal Coates; Engine House; Sunset; St Agnes; Cornwall; UK

A rich new history of our obsession with extracting Earth's resources

28 May 2025

Philip Marsden's book Under a Metal Sky is an engrossing look at how we have excavated key metals and rocks over the millennia. It's a story shot through with awe, power, greed and hubris
What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re starting to find out

What are microplastics doing to your brain? We’re starting to find out

7 May 2025

The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it’s unclear how this affects us. Now animal studies are revealing links to poor cognition and weird behaviour
A cyclist unlocks his bike on Silk Street in the City of London, the capital's financial district, on 8th April 2025, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

Are ordinary people fighting a losing battle to go green?

23 April 2025

Corporations and governments are playing fast and loose with environmental protections. Are there still ways we can make a difference as individuals, and live a climate-friendly life, asks Graham Lawton

Trump budget cuts would eliminate much of NOAA’s climate research

11 April 2025

Proposed cuts would wipe out NOAA’s Ocean and Atmospheric Research office among a raft of other reductions to one of the main scientific agencies of the US
TOPSHOT - A boy rides past as smoke billows from a burning garbage dump, in Lahore on November 1, 2024. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP) (Photo by ARIF ALI/AFP via Getty Images)

Mike Berners-Lee's solution for the polycrisis may be just too hard

26 March 2025

A Climate of Truth is a penetrating and enlightening analysis of the many crises we face. But it demands impossible standards of flawed human beings, finds Graham Lawton

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