Jun 14, 2023 | News
For the first time, phosphorus — the rarest of six elements upon which life as we know it depends — has been found in a tiny ocean-bearing moon in our solar system.
May 22, 2023 | Articles
River’s wildlife is gingerly returning to areas that were once the site of heavy industry and its waters will soon become cleaner as the city spends billions to save it.
May 4, 2023 | Articles
These are the arguments spun by big beef titans to persuade consumers that meat eating has negligible impact on the planet.
May 3, 2023 | Articles
The US beef industry is creating an army of influencers and citizen activists to help amplify a message that will be key to its future success: that you shouldn’t be too worried about the growing attention around the environmental impacts of its production.
Apr 23, 2023 | Articles
Under the watchful and resourceful eye of award-winning conservationist Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda’s threatened mountain gorilla population has made an impressive recovery – as has the local community.
Mar 26, 2023 | News
A Club of Rome study projects that on current trends the world population will reach 8.8 billion before the middle of the century, then decline rapidly. The peak could come earlier if governments take steps to raise average incomes and education levels.
Feb 28, 2023 | Books
Kohei Saito, author of Capital in the Anthropocene, says he has developed a way of reading Marx as a “degrowth ecological communist”.
Jan 1, 2023 | News
Geologists will choose a place they believe best illustrates when a new epoch – which they have dubbed the Anthropocene – was born and its predecessor, the Holocene, came to an end.
Dec 12, 2022 | News
The target is dominating at the biodiversity summit, but the problem of finding a balance between Indigenous peoples’ rights and conservation remains unresolved.
Nov 24, 2022 | History
Rather than exhibiting rational consensus among dispassionate observers, Wikipedia mirrored the passion, emotion, and violence of Tahrir Square in Cairo in 2011. Did Wikipedia help shape the political events of the Egyptian Revolution?
Sep 18, 2022 | Articles
Speaking to animals has long been a fantasy. But now a dizzyingly ambitious project is harnessing all the power of modern science in an attempt to understand what whales say – and then hold conversations with them.
Sep 5, 2022 | Articles
Towards the end of 2022, the human population on Earth is expected to reach eight billion. To mark the occasion, BBC Future takes a look at one of the most controversial issues of our time. Are there too many of us? Or is this the wrong question?
Sep 1, 2022 | News
Telescope uses infrared light to reveal blazing gas giant shrouded in dusty red clouds.
Aug 16, 2022 | Opinion
We live in a bubble of delusion about where our food comes from and how it is produced. We’ve been dealing in stories when we should be dealing in numbers.
Jul 14, 2022 | History
Seventy-five years on from the first mysterious sightings in the US, Nicholas Barber looks back at one of the most haunting objects in popular culture.
Jun 28, 2022 | Articles
A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul. Their opponents have dismissed them as misguided careerists – and the conflict may determine the future of biology.
