In a world where many people go hungry, throwing away food isn’t so cool.

We’ve known for a while that not all of the world’s food is eaten – but how much of it is wasted wasn’t entirely clea...

They provide a rich and diverse nectar source, study finds.

Urban areas are a surprisingly rich food reservoir for pollinating insects such as bees and wasps, according to a UK ...

Around the world, long-in-the-tooth large dams pose a growing risk.

Ageing dams will pose a growing risk over the next few decades, warns an analysis from United Nations University’s Ca...

A new paper shows that indigenous lands have a significant role to play in protecting endangered wildlife. The paper,...

Study identifies the European cities with highest mortality rates.

Think of air pollution these days and you probably think of China. In 2017 alone air pollution is estimated to have c...

Not all marine protected areas are created equal. Here’s why that’s a problem.

By John Turnbull, Emma Johnston, Graeme Clark from UNSW, Carly Cook from Monash University and Kelsey Roberts from St...

Could Indigenous wisdom help us create a “good Anthropocene”?

The Anthropocene marks relentless and increasingly grave environmental degradation as the Earth faces tipping points ...

Access to water a win in many ways for Zambian women.

Those of us in the developed world tend to take our privileges for granted: it’s exactly what drove the Internet meme...

Decline of insects is a catastrophic loss we can ill afford.

Entomologists have united to take stock of growing warnings about an “insect apocalypse” in a special feature publish...

Lithium has unexpected origins and uses.

Our next regular Cosmos Briefing asks the question: Is Lithium the Answer? We are drilling down on lithium and the...

Are Barcelona-stye green zones the answer?

By Anupam Nanda, University of Manchester  The lockdowns and restrictions introduced to control the spread of COVI...

Anthropogenic mass now exceeds living biomass, study finds.

Among its other dubious distinctions, the year 2020 marks the approximate tipping point between anthropogenic mass an...