environment

Walking the Space: Lucio Fontana

13/03/2021

A new art book highlights the importance of the Argentine-Italian artist's spatial experiments, but fails to capture the radical spirit of his creativity...

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dancers

Helsinki Biennial to Launch this Summer

18/02/2021

The Helsinki Biennial will open this June on the uninhabited island of Vallisaari, featuring works by 40 local and international artists...

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Lisa Sanditz: Mud Season

02/09/2020

Paintings made during lockdown reimagine and rework the tradition of the Romantic landscape in the time of global health pandemics and Trump-era America....

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We Are Nrvs: A View

07/05/2020

Audio visual resistance punk duo NRVS present their manifesto of digital primitivism. ...

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Landmark Exhibition to Explore the Fragility of the Natural World

14/12/2019

Paradise Lost, the first UK solo exhibition by visual artist Jan Hendrix, will convey his response to the transformation of Botany Bay in Australia....

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Not For Her…

11/09/2019

A poetography piece dedicated to Greta Thunberg, by photojournalist Julio Etchart....

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More Authenticity, Less Plastic – Cambridge Folk Festival 2019 Delivers On All Fronts

10/08/2019

CFF 2019 showcased some incredible new talent. Amy Montgomery is one of the few performers who stops you dead in your tracks and forces you to lower your lens to breathe in the sheer brilliance of it...

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“Are We Going to Be the Last Generation on This Planet?”

24/04/2019

Extinction Rebellion is a moving reminder of the strategy by the environmental coalition of protesters to engage in peaceful protest around the world....

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Just a Lonely Plastic Bottle…

15/03/2019

Just a lonely plastic bottle... the self-mutilating symbol of our suicidal age....

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Invasive Snakes Hitchhiking With US Military

26/09/2018

A research team has been studying why a type of cat-eyed snake has been so effective at devastating native bird populations on the island of Guam....

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Cambridge Folk Festival 2018 Is On The Shimmering Horizon

18/07/2018

Trebuchet could not countenance summer without the Cambridge Folk Festival. At the curational helm of 2018’s vaunted cross-pollination with Newport folk fest is Rhiannon Giddens, whose Baez-like...

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20% of America’s Gassiest Citizens Produce Half Its Diet-Related Gas

22/03/2018

20 percent of Americans are responsible for almost half of US food-related greenhouse gas emissions...

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Have a Wee Drink? Urine Trouble if You Don’t

15/03/2018

Taste test gauges how recycled wastewater performs against bottled and tap water...

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bees by pixabay and oldiefan

Buzz, Feed? Keeping up with the Bees

11/01/2018

Worldwide importance of honey bees for natural habitats captured in new report...

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Dirty turkey

Are You Prepped? Post-Brexit Dirty Turkey Terror

19/12/2017

Risk of 'dirty' turkey after Brexit if UK strikes a US trade deal...

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The Physics of Coffee and How They’ll Fix Oceans

15/12/2017

Layering in cafe lattes yields insights for engineering, medicine and environment...

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cow, cow avoidance

Greenouse Gases, Atmospheric Methane – Cows Say ‘It Wasn’t Us!’

11/12/2017

Researchers establish long-sought source of ocean methane ...

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Do Mekong River Dams Need to Ruin Villages?

08/12/2017

Towards an algorithm for dam operators that will increase fish harvests and still generate power...

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Glycine: Cheap, Readily Available Energy. But From Where?

06/12/2017

Researchers generate electricity from low-cost biomaterial ...

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Electric Cars, Perpetual Motion and the Home Energy Mobius Strip

29/11/2017

Energy from electric cars could power our lives - but only if we improve the system ...

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The Many Uses of Dead Baby Whales

29/11/2017

Blue Planet II's weekly reminder that you are a sh*t...

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The Flip Side: Are Blue Whales Left or Right ‘Handed’?

21/11/2017

Scientists discover most blue whales are 'right-handed' - except when they swim upward ...

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cow, cow avoidance

Be Nice to Cows, Science Says So

17/11/2017

Brazilian study shows how small changes on farms can lower stress levels of cattle...

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accelerated evolution

Mega-Rats! Does Accelerated Living = Accelerated Evolution?

10/11/2017

Explosion of rats, clovers, bedbugs, mosquitoes unintended evolutionary consequence of urbanization...

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solar greenhouse

Don’t Throw Stones! Inside the Smart Solar Greenhouse

09/11/2017

Solar greenhouses generate electricity and grow healthy crops ...

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The Trump Effect: Blaming Liberals for Ecology

08/11/2017

Rise of populism affects wildlife management in US ...

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Avoiding Mouldy Wine? Nature Knows Best

07/11/2017

Wild grape yeast could be more effective than pesticides in preventing grape molds ...

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green spaces

Want More Attentive Kids? Get Them to the Green Spaces

31/10/2017

Living close to green spaces is associated with better attention in children ...

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desalination

Desalination: Cleaner, Better Ways to Turn Deserts Green

18/10/2017

MIT researchers tackle what happens when the river runs dry...

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Capitalism. Either it Goes, or We Do

28/09/2017

The city's pantheon of possibility has been scoured away. Whither now?...

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