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Did you know we’re surrounded by living fossils that date back to the age of the dinosaurs?

What doesn’t fuel us, may still be fuel! Did you know that researchers are turning food waste into sustainable plane fuel? With heat and pressure, dinner scraps can be transformed into an oil which in

Giles Catchpole hopes for cool heads in cold climes

David Farrier Nature’s Genius Evolution’s lessons for a changing planet 288pp. Canongate. £20. In David Farrier’s latest book, he warns us that humanity is endangering every facet of life on Earth thr

Polar bears, walruses, orca whales – oh my! Durene Jones’ iceberg is packed with wildlife native to the icy climate of the tundra ecosystem. In this frosty piece, discover a seal, arctic fox, stag and

DEENA EMERA WAS MESMERIZED BY the images on the screen. “They were beautiful,” she says of the slides she saw in December—each a microscopic closeup of a bowhead whale’s ovary. The images were marvelo