World needs ‘rapid climate cooling’ as 2℃ overshoot now likely

Jun 29, 2022 | Opinion

International community must prioritize researching and developing an overshoot risk management plan or risk irreversible catastrophic damage to the biophysical and physiochemical systems that support human civilization, argues Graeme Taylor.

Plans to present meat as ‘sustainable nutrition’ at Cop28 revealed

Nov 29, 2023 | News

Big meat companies and lobby groups are planning a large presence at the Cop28 climate conference, equipped with a communications plan to get a pro-meat message heard by policymakers throughout the summit.

Deadly harvest

Nov 27, 2023 | Articles

Demand for palm oil is fuelling corruption in Honduras.

Canada oil and gas firms to drill 8% more wells next year

Nov 24, 2023 | News

Amid forecasts that Canada is not on target to reach its emissions reductions goals, on Friday the Canadian Association of Energy Contractors (CAOEC) predicted nearly 500 more wells next year, to 6,229 projects.

The seaweed farms that could feed us all – at a cost

Nov 16, 2023 | Articles

Mammoth efforts to grow seaweed are springing up in the Philippines and beyond, and they’re in line for Elon Musk’s ‘largest incentive prize in history’. Meddling with the ocean to grow them, however, has some scientists troubled.

After a record year of wildfires, will Canada ever be the same again?

Nov 9, 2023 | Articles

Unprecedented blazes tore through boreal forest, unleashing vast carbon emissions in what may be a permanent change of state.

Secularism in Iran

Nov 6, 2023 | Opinion, Politics & Human Rights

Postcolonial intellectuals and Iran’s rulers agree that secularism is just Western imperialism in disguise. They are wrong.

Satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts

Oct 26, 2023 | History, News

Declassified cold-war spy satellite images have thrown new light on the workings of the Roman empire by revealing hundreds of previously undiscovered forts, with dramatic implications for our understanding, experts have said.

A rewilding centre in the Scottish Highlands

Oct 17, 2023 | Articles

As rewilding accelerates around the world, the global movement’s first dedicated centre has opened near Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

To avert climate disaster, what if one rogue nation dimmed the Sun?

Oct 10, 2023 | Articles

If one rogue nation decided to dim the Sun, what environmental and geopolitical consequences might unfurl? And is the safe deployment of such a technology even a conceivable goal?

Settler colonialism

Oct 5, 2023 | History, Politics & Human Rights

Displacing and destroying peoples by colonization is not just a historical Western evil but a global and contemporary one.

Finding alien life in universe is now ‘only a matter of time’

Sep 30, 2023 | Articles

Many astronomers are no longer asking whether there is life elsewhere in the Universe. Many are optimistic of detecting life signs on a faraway world within our lifetimes – possibly in the next few years.

The First Nations nature reserve that became a model for the world

Sep 28, 2023 | Articles

Thirty years ago, when the people of Haida Gwaii blockaded logging roads in British Columbia, few foresaw the result – the remarkable Gwaii Haanas agreement that has reshaped how to manage contested areas.

The plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world

Sep 28, 2023 | Articles

When a microbe was found munching on a plastic bottle in a rubbish dump, it promised a recycling revolution. Now scientists are attempting to turbocharge those powers in a bid to solve our waste crisis. But will it work?

Science is now revealing Neanderthal genetic legacy

Sep 25, 2023 | Articles

Using the rapidly improving ability to piece together fragments of ancient DNA, scientists are finding that traits inherited from our ancient cousins are still with us now, affecting our fertility, our immune systems, even how our bodies handled COVID-19.

Justice for Neanderthals!

Sep 18, 2023 | History, Opinion

They were long derided as knuckle-draggers, but new discoveries are setting the record straight. As we rethink the nature of the Neanderthals, we could also learn something about our own humanity.

Distant exoplanet could have water ocean and hint of life

Sep 11, 2023 | News

Scientists at NASA have announced the existence of a possible rare water ocean on a giant exoplanet scores of light years away and also a chemical hint of a sign of potential life.