By Ryan Johnson Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research centre to develop new ways to repair the Earth’s climate. It will investigate radical approaches such as refreezing the Earth’s poles and removing CO2 from the atmosphere. The centre is being created because of fears that current approaches will not on their own […]

By Ryan Johnson Scientists from the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, in the UK, published a study that coffee is officially considered endangered, as 60 percent of the 124 known species in the world are threatened with extinction because of deforestation, diseases, and climate change. The majority of the wild coffee species globally are found in […]

Plastics are excellent materials: extremely versatile and almost eternally durable. But this is also exactly the problem, because after only about 100 years of producing plastics, plastic particles are now found everywhere — in groundwater, in the oceans, in the air, and in the food chain. Around 50 million tonnes of the industrially important polymer […]

Humanity has a very suspect ability to empathize with life. As humans, the most evolved Mammals on Earth, we’re actually the cause of the 6th mass extinction, a catastrophic loss of biodiversity due to our impact on our home planet’s ecosystem. As Mammals, we might have some inherent blind-spot in being able to empathize with […]

As foraging worker bees flit around the neighborhood in search of nectar and pollen, they unwittingly pick up pollutants that then linger in the hive’s honey. Luckily, Hina Alam writes for the Canadian Press, trace amounts of lead, zinc and copper left by this process are too low to have much of an impact on […]

…while making sure we don’t leave Earth behind. Currently home to 7.7 billion human beings… A world which has seen 108 billion humans exist since the beginning of our species… Earth has been our home for several hundred thousand years, and home to millions upon millions of species, and trillions of organisms, for over 3 billion […]

The ocean is heating up, acidifying, and rising. Should we spend our energy on that and not straws—or does any attention on the ocean help spread awareness? When Seattle became the first major American city to ban plastic straws last summer, the anti-plastic straw movement was well underway. Alaska Airlines announced a plan to ditch […]

The seabed is not flat and smooth like the shimmering ocean above it. It’s a jagged, uneven landscape of submerged mountains and valleys, all hidden from sight – but not from science. By analysing the isotopic composition of the rocks that make up these underwater mountains networks – called mid-ocean ridges – scientists can identify […]

“Burgers, ribs, fried chicken, and pork rolls are all staples of the western diet. However, the world’s growing consumption of meat has taken a huge toll on the biodiversity of animals and the environment as a whole. According to Slow Food, just in the second half of the 20th century, global meat consumption  increased fivefold, […]

One of the largest icebergs ever recorded has been created after breaking free from an ice shelf in Antarctica with the volume of water is twice that of Lake Erie, one of North America’s five Great Lakes. Larsen C is now 12 percent smaller than it was few months ago and, although the ice shelf […]