With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world’s 10 most widely spoken languages. There is a renewed push for it to become the continent’s lingua franca.
High-income countries could cut their agricultural emissions by almost two-thirds through dietary change, a study finds. Moving away from animal-based foods could free up an area of land larger than the entire European Union.
Edward O. Wilson, the sometimes-controversial U.S. biologist, professor, and author known as “Darwin’s natural heir”, who studied insects and human behaviour, has died at the age of 92, his foundation said Monday.
The wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant immigration is a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe movements in Europe and the US. It is now spilling into the discourse of mainstream politics.
George Monbiot says it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction. Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not up.
When farmers abandon their land, should we just let nature take its course? As ecologists meet to discuss the threat to global biodiversity, some believe that accepting chaos is the best approach.
According to George Monbiot, it’s not just anti-vaxxers. The themes of resisting power and regaining control of our lives have been cynically repurposed.
The global production of food is responsible for a third of all planet-heating gases emitted by human activity, with the use of animals for meat causing twice the pollution of producing plant-based foods, a major new study has found.
The InSight mission reveals the average thickness of Mars’ crust to be between 24km and 72km – somewhat thinner than had been expected. The key finding is the size of the planet’s core. Its radius of 1,830km is at the top end of previous estimates.
Growing global meat consumption threatens to derail the Paris Agreement, but that hasn’t stopped the meat industry insisting it is part of the solution to climate change.
With a surface hot enough to melt lead, Venus has been left alone by space agencies for a decade. Now we are about to learn more about its climate – and the chances of life on other planets.
Graeme Taylor has won a bronze medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards for A Paramedic’s Tales. He is also the author of Evolution’s Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of Our World, which won an IPPY gold medal in 2009.
