Blue Machine review: Earth's ocean as a giant engine
31 May 2023
Helen Czerski's fascinating new book casts the ocean as an extraordinary giant engine, and helps us grasp its complex physics and its key role in climate change
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Elderflora review: A history of ancient trees is excellent in parts
22 February 2023
A tour round the world's oldest trees is a brilliant idea for a book, but its delivery can be pretty uneven
Waste Age review: Can good design save the planet from waste?
10 November 2021
A new exhibition at the Design Museum in London presents the pressing problem of waste across the world – and what can be done to tackle it
The amusing skulduggery-filled tale of how beavers returned to Britain
9 September 2020
From photocopying secret files to taking on the powerful lobby groups, activist Derek Gow's book Bringing Back the Beaver tells his side of the story of Britain's beaver reintroduction
The evolutionary mystery of flying may finally be cracked by genetics
25 March 2020
Finding out how flight evolved or animals moved onto land is all about a collision of palaeontology and genetics, argue two new books
Fossils of the earliest animals seen outside China for the first time
14 August 2019
How did animal life begin? A must-see exhibition in Oxford brings together the world's best fossils from the Cambrian explosion to tell the story
How palaeontology got cool: Inside the revolution in dinosaur science
26 June 2019
Dinosaurs have won a huge following as new techniques revolutionise what we know about how they lived and even looked. How well are popular books keeping up?
Is eating cheese as bad for animals and the planet as eating meat?
20 December 2018
Bravo for having given up eating meat! But in the ninth of our 12 Days of Culture, might we suggest giving up cheese and going back to chicken – for ethical reasons?
Paywall: The business of scholarship review – analysis of a scandal
5 October 2018
Expect to feel righteous anger and astonishment as the film Paywall exposes the dull-sounding science journal industry, hard at work pocketing your tax money
Yuval Noah Harari: Why the reluctant guru is upsetting scientists
17 August 2018
What could possibly go wrong when a world famous public intellectual grapples with our bewilderingly strange times? Find out in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
