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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Robin Utrecht/Shutterstock (12758494i) Portrait of Willemien Terpstra and Marjan Minnesma Willemien is high in the chemical industry, Marjan is the boss of Urgenda. Willemien Terpstra and Marjan Minnesma, The Hague, Netherlands - 10 Dec 2021

Marjan Minnesma: Climate litigation pioneer wins environmental prize

25 May 2022

The 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize has been awarded to Marjan Minnesma, who sued the Dutch government over its carbon emissions plans


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Animal culture is so common that even fish and flies have it

1 April 2021

Culture was once thought to be restricted to humans, then it was shown in apes and whales – now we are finding evidence of it throughout the animal kingdom


Paul Ehrlich: There are too many super-consumers on the planet

Paul Ehrlich: There are too many super-consumers on the planet

11 November 2020

Conservation biologist Paul Ehrlich raised fears about our rapidly growing population in his 1968 book The Population Bomb. Fifty years later, he reflects on what has changed


How to cope with crisis? Jared Diamond says nations need therapy

How to cope with crisis? Jared Diamond says nations need therapy

28 July 2020

Jared Diamond says nations need a special kind of therapy to solve big problems like climate change, Brexit and nuclear proliferation.


Greta Thunberg: Fight the climate crisis and pandemic simultaneously

Greta Thunberg: Fight the climate crisis and pandemic simultaneously

23 July 2020

Greta Thunberg argues that the world can and should tackle the coronavirus pandemic and climate change simultaneously.


Olafur Eliasson

The weather project artist Olafur Eliasson returns to Tate Modern

10 July 2019

Artist Olafur Eliasson, who brought the sun to Tate Modern's turbine hall in 2003, returns with In Real Life, a new exhibition featuring incredible installations. We quiz him on selfies, short-term thinking and the climate reckoning to come


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Extreme tales from a record-breaking dive in the Antarctic

8 August 2018

Jon Copley dived deep for Blue Planet II. He reveals the risks of falling rocks, leaks and fires inside the sub, and highlights the extraordinary "death star"


Gregory Berns

The man who reads dog minds and personalities in a brain scanner

23 August 2017

Gregory Berns coaxes dogs into MRI scanners to see what's going on in their heads. It even reveals if they would make good helpers for people with disabilities


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