Can oceans turn the tide on the climate crisis?

As we pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the world is warming at an alarming…

How women's life-long experiences of being judged by their appearance affect how they feel in open-plan offices

A key reason many organisations want to move their employees to open-plan workspaces is to encourage…

A dormant volcano: the black hole at the heart of our galaxy is more explosive than we thought

The supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy spat out an enormous flare of…

How differences in the genetic 'instruction booklet' between humans and Neanderthals influenced traits

When it comes to our differences from Neanderthals, most of what we know comes from comparing…

In the Amazon, protected areas often lose out when the search for energy is on

Addressing policy “blind spots” that allow energy production and mineral exploration to trump environmental protection could…

Using 'World of Warcraft' to cut gamer screen time, increase maker revenue

Yulia Nevskaya’s first foray into the “World of Warcraft” started one evening at 7 p.m. She…

Peebles, Mayor, Queloz win Nobel physics prize for discoveries in astronomy

Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019 Nobel…

Re­searchers de­vel­op a com­pact in­frared spec­trom­e­ter

ETH researchers have developed a compact infrared spectrometer. It’s small enough to fit on a computer…

Breastfeeding can help tackle climate crisis but it's on governments, not mums to save the world

In the midst of debates about how to best tackle the climate crisis, breastfeeding was recently…

Defining and measuring sustainability

Back in 2009 when I was completing my book Sustainability Management and preparing it for publication…