Society
“Are We Going to Be the Last Generation on This Planet?”
Extinction Rebellion is a moving reminder of the strategy by the environmental coalition of protesters to engage in peaceful protest around the world. (read more)
environment
Art
Just a Lonely Plastic Bottle…
Just a lonely plastic bottle… the self-mutilating symbol of our suicidal age. (read more)
News
Invasive Snakes Hitchhiking With US Military
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. (read more)
Events
Cambridge Folk Festival 2018 Is On The Shimmering Horizon
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 vocals go a fair way toward making that (read more)
News
20% of America’s Gassiest Citizens Produce Half Its Diet-Related Gas
20 percent of Americans are responsible for almost half of US food-related greenhouse gas emissions (read more)
News
Have a Wee Drink? Urine Trouble if You Don’t
Taste test gauges how recycled wastewater performs against bottled and tap water (read more)
News
Buzz, Feed? Keeping up with the Bees
Worldwide importance of honey bees for natural habitats captured in new report (read more)
News
Are You Prepped? Post-Brexit Dirty Turkey Terror
Risk of ‘dirty’ turkey after Brexit if UK strikes a US trade deal (read more)
News
The Physics of Coffee and How They’ll Fix Oceans
Layering in cafe lattes yields insights for engineering, medicine and environment (read more)
News
Greenouse Gases, Atmospheric Methane – Cows Say ‘It Wasn’t Us!’
Researchers establish long-sought source of ocean methane (read more)
News
Do Mekong River Dams Need to Ruin Villages?
Towards an algorithm for dam operators that will increase fish harvests and still generate power (read more)
News
Glycine: Cheap, Readily Available Energy. But From Where?
Researchers generate electricity from low-cost biomaterial (read more)
News
Electric Cars, Perpetual Motion and the Home Energy Mobius Strip
Energy from electric cars could power our lives – but only if we improve the system (read more)
Society
The Many Uses of Dead Baby Whales
Blue Planet II’s weekly reminder that you are a sh*t (read more)
News
The Flip Side: Are Blue Whales Left or Right ‘Handed’?
Scientists discover most blue whales are ‘right-handed’ – except when they swim upward (read more)
News
Be Nice to Cows, Science Says So
Brazilian study shows how small changes on farms can lower stress levels of cattle (read more)
News
Mega-Rats! Does Accelerated Living = Accelerated Evolution?
Explosion of rats, clovers, bedbugs, mosquitoes unintended evolutionary consequence of urbanization (read more)
News
Don’t Throw Stones! Inside the Smart Solar Greenhouse
Solar greenhouses generate electricity and grow healthy crops (read more)
News
The Trump Effect: Blaming Liberals for Ecology
Rise of populism affects wildlife management in US (read more)
News
Avoiding Mouldy Wine? Nature Knows Best
Wild grape yeast could be more effective than pesticides in preventing grape molds (read more)
News
Want More Attentive Kids? Get Them to the Green Spaces
Living close to green spaces is associated with better attention in children (read more)
News
Desalination: Cleaner, Better Ways to Turn Deserts Green
MIT researchers tackle what happens when the river runs dry (read more)
Society
Capitalism. Either it Goes, or We Do
The city’s pantheon of possibility has been scoured away. Whither now? (read more)
News
Love the Sea? Clean the Sea!
People’s love of the seas could be the key for plastic pollution solution (read more)
Society
Hurricanes are Real, Even if You Deny Climate Change
Post-Irma, the desperate pseudoscience of deniers is a cacophony of crazy (read more)
News
Repairing the Rainforest – It Works!
Restored forest now shelters dozens of endangered species (read more)
News
Greening Jungles with Orange Peel
How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest (read more)
Sound
I haven’t jumped on the Corbyn express: Chris T-T: Interview (Part Two)
‘If you sing about anything other than universal themes, you put people off’ (read more)
News
Sneezy Does It: Pollen as Fertilizer
Dastardly whitecoats plan botanical cannabilism as plants forced to eat plants (read more)
Sound
‘I hope I can turn it down.’ Chris T-T Contemplates a Quieter Life (Interview)
Like holding back the tide, folk singer and reluctant activist Chris T-T struggles to adapt to a life without opinions (read more)