Scientists from Europe and the U.S. reported Monday there isn’t nearly enough water vapour in Venus’s clouds to support life as we know it. This follows September’s surprise announcement by others that tiny organisms could be lurking there.
A new study has found that, over the past 5,000 years, roughly 1,715 nearby stars would have been in a position to see Earth, and 29 potentially habitable planets around those stars could have also received human-made radio transmissions.
Legal experts from across the globe have drawn up a “historic” definition of ecocide, intended to be adopted by the international criminal court to prosecute the most egregious offences against the environment.
The animal sentience bill recognises that fish and other vertebrates feel pain and should be protected, where possible, from suffering. However, the group of MPs has argued that some invertebrates should be included in the bill.
For decades, scientists and economists have been making wagers about the outcome of human population growth. Now, more than ever, their speculations need to be taken seriously.
Adding the likes of peas, lentils, beans, and chickpeas to your diet, and farming more of them, could result in more nutritious and effective food production with large environmental benefits, scientists have found.
A year after ditching a Google tie-up to create a tech-heavy waterside development, Canada’s largest city is stressing affordability and sustainability.
Questions still swirl around the author’s theories about sexual selection and the evolution of minds and morals. Some passages strike modern readers as offensive, especially where Darwin speculates on issues of race and on gender roles.
Conflict, negotiation, reciprocity, perhaps even selflessness: an emerging understanding of forests suggests there’s more going on within them than you might think.
The cost of the climate damage caused by organic meat production is just as high as that of conventionally farmed meat, according to research. The lowest impact meat is still far more damaging than the worst plant foods.
If a third of the planet’s most degraded areas were restored, and protection were thrown around areas still in good condition, that would store carbon equating to half of all human caused greenhouse gas emissions since the industrial revolution.
One of the rarest mammals in the world was almost wiped out two decades ago, sparking an elaborate and costly recovery program that has boosted numbers and offers hope for other at-risk species.
Overconsumption, not overpopulation, drives climate change. A world with lots of people running on clean energy could have lower emissions than one with few people powered by fossil fuels.
