It is worth valuing trees, but all deserve our respect
9 May 2018
The benefits trees bring to our lives are now being quantified by a band of treeconomists, an approach that could help us give trees the respect they deserve
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Animals & Us: An art show about how we interact with creatures
9 May 2018
A polar bear loose in the streets of a famous seaside town sets the stage for an art show to ask tough questions
China is building a huge weather-control machine – will it work?
9 May 2018
Water shortages are a huge problem for Chinese agriculture, so the country has just begun the world's largest ever weather control experiment
Treeconomics: How to put a fair price tag on urban forests
9 May 2018
We can now calculate the exact value of a tree, from shade to beauty. Doing so could be the best way to protect them – and plan the forests of the future
Colombia’s peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon
8 May 2018
Ever since Colombia signed a historic peace deal with the FARC guerrillas, farmers and criminal gangs have been burning its portion of the Amazon rainforest
Hawaii volcano is causing havoc and will spew lava for days
8 May 2018
The Kilauea volcano is unlikely to erupt explosively, but it will probably keep pumping out devastating lava for many days to come
Tourism is four times worse for the climate than we thought
7 May 2018
Tourism is being blamed for 8 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and it emits more every year – making it harder to stop dangerous climate change
Monkey face recognition app can help spot endangered primates
4 May 2018
Individual primates are harder to recognise from their markings than other species. A new face recognition app might be able to help conservationists spot who’s who
People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result
3 May 2018
A gene variant that helps humans cope with colder climates also seems to have put people living in northerly regions at a higher risk of migraine
Mistletoe's cells are broken at a fundamental level
3 May 2018
All complex organisms rely on tiny nodules called mitochondria to supply their cells with energy – but mistletoe’s mitochondria don’t work and yet it survives
