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Earth

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

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

Culture

Remarkable photos highlight the haunting resilience of nature

Life

Remarkable photos highlight the haunting resilience of nature

Regulars

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

Health

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

Features

Out of Africa champagne picnic experience. Masai Mara luxury safari. Kenya Kenya???s national parks and reserves offer tourists the chance to see wild animals in what remains of their natural habitat. In Masai Mara, tourists engage in colonial fantasies while re-enacting the romantic picnic scene in the film Out of Africa. Local Masaai tribesman are employed to provide picturesque authenticity to the experience. Earth???s wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 69% in the last 50 years; 90% of African elephants have been wiped out in the past century. Kenyan national parks provide a sanctuary, but the animals living within them are allowed to survive essentially for human entertainment and reassurance. These animals become, in effect, performers for paying tourists eager to see a nostalgic picture-book image of the natural world.

Environment

Captivating images expose a 'staged version' of nature

Regulars

2HCNTB2 Arctic sea with Arctic remnant ice through the Fram Strait near Svalbard

Environment

Mining the Arctic's precious resources is a fool's errand

Leader

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)

Environment

Are ordinary people fighting a losing battle to go green?

Comment

Environment

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

News

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)

Environment

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

Culture

An early-warning system for climate 'tipping points' is an awful idea

Environment

An early-warning system for climate 'tipping points' is an awful idea

Comment

How cloud-seeding could help us predict when it will snow

Environment

How cloud-seeding could help us predict when it will snow

These brilliant images show how researchers in Switzerland are using weather-modification techniques to understand how ice crystals form in clouds, an important and poorly understood factor in climate and weather models

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Society

NOAA cancels monthly climate and weather update calls

News

Environment

Major ship collision in UK waters sparks fears of toxic chemical leak

News

Environment

We need a global environmental court – and we need it now

Comment

Humans

From doomy prophecies to epic dystopias, we are suckers for end times

Culture