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2021 preview: We will find out if microplastics are harming our cells

2021 preview: We will find out if microplastics are harming our cells

30 December 2020

Despite mounting evidence that we eat, drink and breathe microplastics it still isn't clear if they enter our bodies and cause harm, but in 2021 we should get some answers


2021 preview: A crucial year for action on climate change

2021 preview: A crucial year for action on climate change

28 December 2020

Major climate summits delayed in 2020 are back on in 2021, offering several big opportunities to confront the climate emergency


Don't miss: Rights for the planet, art for tomorrow and oceanic beauty

Don't miss: Rights for the planet, art for tomorrow and oceanic beauty

4 December 2019

This week, learn how rights can save the planet, explore a world at every scale with Korea's artist of the year, and take a deep dive through a hit documentary


David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

David Attenborough’s life lesson to kids: Live life, just don’t waste

25 October 2019

Seven Worlds, One Planet, David Attenborough’s stunning celebration of Earth’s biodiversity, prepares a new generation to save a beautiful world


HBO's Chernobyl drama highlights the human cost of nuclear catastrophe

HBO's Chernobyl drama highlights the human cost of nuclear catastrophe

3 May 2019

An intense new HBO miniseries about the world's worst nuclear accident turns the Chernobyl Soviet scientists into unlikely heroes in its portrayal of a world superpower approaching meltdown


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Don't miss: Making science happen, a mega-collider and a hypnotic game

27 February 2019

Peek behind the scenes of the lab at London's Francis Crick Institute, hear all about the proposed particle accelerator at CERN and play a new video game


Dynasties review: Attenborough’s latest special focuses on real drama

Dynasties review: Attenborough’s latest special focuses on real drama

9 November 2018

David Attenborough’s latest series uses a new kind of storytelling: by closing in on a few animals over two years, it creates real Game of Thrones style drama


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Cocktail umbrellas can save Earth from the Anthropocene

28 December 2017

On the fourth day of Christmas, we explore the links between artist Mark Dion, Aristotle and how multiple perspectives are needed to solve our problems


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