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A Blue New Deal review: A radical look at who owns the sea

16 February 2022

In his new book, Chris Armstrong argues that to protect the oceans from devastating pollution and over-exploitation, rich nations need to finally learn how to share

Climate fiction has come of age – and these fabulous books show why

2 February 2022

As the climate crisis grows, "cli-fi" books are driving action by showing dark, all-too-possible futures, says climate researcher Bill McGuire. Here are some of his favourites

Why using rare metals to clean up the planet is no cheap fix

27 January 2021

Demand for rare metals can only increase in the move to a zero-carbon economy. The Rare Metals War by Guillaume Pitron lays out the terrifying cost

There is so much we don't yet know about fungi

3 June 2020

Fungi are perhaps the most enigmatic organisms on the planet. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake says we are only just beginning to discover how they work

Why do scientists give some species such unusual names?

20 May 2020

The strange ways we name new species and the politics involved is explained in Stephen Heard's book Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider

Don’t miss: Art confronts climate, a book on space junk, future talk

13 November 2019

This week, discover how art and design take on climate change, read all about our space junk, and listen to top talk about the future in a University of Oxford podcast

Climate change: Is capitalism the problem or the solution?

11 September 2019

Transforming turbo-charged globalised capitalism into a green force for public good will take the deep thinking of two new books by Naomi Klein and Vaclav Smil

The Extinction Rebellion book is short on science but big on action

26 June 2019

A new book on the Extinction Rebellion's climate protests sells the science short but neatly explains the group's highly effective civil disobedience tactics