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Climate scientists rebel against the IPCC

Nov 25, 2023 | News

Following three decades of IPCC failures to convince nation states to make a dent in greenhouse gas emissions, a group of rebellious climate scientists claim rapid planet cooling measures must be employed as soon as possible to slow global heating.

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.

‘Missing law of nature’ explains evolution of everything in the universe

Oct 19, 2023 | News

A multi-disciplinary team of scientists and philosophers have unveiled what they term “a missing law of nature.” This concept broadens the scope of evolution, traditionally understood in the context of biological life, to all complex systems in the universe.

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.

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.