Which came first, the acorn or the oak? A more important question is which came first: our words for trees, or our understandings of what trees...
This Halloween, around 18,000 tonnes of pumpkins will go to waste in the UK alone. That’s because, of the 30 million purchased each year, about half...
Most of the world washes their clothing by hand. elJad/Pixabay, CC BY-NC-SA Between 6,500 and 87,000 tonnes of microfibres are shed during domestic laundering every year...
The rate at which the warming Southern Ocean melts the West Antarctic ice sheet will speed up rapidly over the course of this century, regardless of...
The dual pressures of climate change and plastic pollution are frequently conflated in the media, in peer-reviewed research and other environmental reporting. This is understandable. Plastics...
Storm Babet has caused havoc across the UK, with strong winds and rough seas along the east coast, record breaking rainfall and river levels in Scotland,...
Why do we feel stuck in our efforts to solve the great sustainability crises of the 21st century? Between the dire need to successfully mitigate climate...
The world is very warm right now. We’re not only seeing record temperatures, but the records are being broken by record-wide margins. Take the preliminary September...
The statistics surrounding mobile phones are staggering. There are more than 7 billion mobile phone users worldwide, nearly 5 billion of whom use a smartphone. These...
When sea ice melts, polar bears must move onto land for several months without access to food. This fasting period is challenging for all bears, but...