Real colour of money: business wants profit and green cred
27 March 2018
A strange alliance of corporates and environmental groups thinks profits and green credentials can be aligned. But there's some angry pushback
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Neanderthals ambushed cave bears as they awoke from hibernation
26 March 2018
Our extinct cousins the Neanderthals seem to have targeted cave bears, which were normally intimidating foes, while they were sleepy and weak from hibernating through the winter
Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too
23 March 2018
An assessment of Earth’s biodiversity predicts catastrophic losses within decades, with severe knock-on effects for human civilisation like shortages of food
A very pregnant female ray had to fend off four courting males
22 March 2018
Giant devil rays have been filmed courting for the first time, and it turns out the males do not even wait for the females to give birth
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is gobbling up ever more plastic
22 March 2018
There's at least four times as much plastic floating in the Pacific as we thought, and a lot of it may have floated over from Japan after the 2011 Tohoku tsunami
Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth
21 March 2018
A strange discovery, made by polar explorer Robert Scott a century ago, might explain how complex life survived when the planet froze over into “Snowball Earth”
Medicine for sick koalas turns out to actually kill them
21 March 2018
Koalas are often given antibiotics to treat a lethal strain of chlamydia, but the medicines often kill the koalas by wiping out friendly bacteria in their guts
