The Australian Research Council last month announced the winners of its latest round of Future Fellowships. . The fellowship awards are roughly AU $1 million, […]

Abstract. Rights of nature (RoN) appear to provide a promising alternative to anthropocentric environmental rights. But do they meet the demands of transfo

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Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...

Why are some people more successful at forming true beliefs than others? This book challenges explanations that appeal exclusively to either intellectual virtues or to features of epistemic environmen...

El océano está profundamente entretejido con la cultura humana. Comprender cómo funciona es crucial para nuestro futuro.

Lo cierto es que la mayoría de nosotros podemos vivir sin éxitos, pero de un modo u otro, todos convivimos con la derrota.

Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a ...

Earth will breach a long-standing target before the end of the decade, report says.

The closure does not affect the rest of the institution, which builds and maintains the collections and conducts research through departments such as the Patrick Center for Environmental Research.

Just as the global economy was adjusting to higher fuel prices, a new inflationary wave is about to hit. This time, the shortages will involve food and the poorest nations will be the worst affected.

The world’s oceans hit 21.10 degrees Celsius last Saturday, breaking a record set in 2024

The highly destructive practice has been documented in at least 34 countries, from Lebanon and Libya to Ecuador and Brazil.

Philosophy & Public Affairs recently---and knowingly---published an article written mostly by Claude, Anthropic's LLM. The article's thesis was supplied by Simon Goldstein, associate professor of phil...

Some pig and poultry farmers incorporate tiny fish into feed because of the nutritional benefits, but critics warn that overextraction of these fish could disrupt the marine food web.

This is a guide to the essay in the age of AI, when we need it more than ever. How should we encourage our students to read when co-pilot is on hand to read for them? Beset on all sides by summary ...

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

As a controversial Spanish plan for sustainable meat on an industrial scale is dropped, it has revived the ethical debate over farming these intelligent wild animals

By late June, the animals should be well and truly aggregating. In short, the cuttlefish have simply failed to turn up.

Do you take time to teach your lower level students basic student skills? How do you do it? Increasingly, I've had students who don't seem to know how to take notes during class. Or know that they sho...

Dive into Deep Time, an immersive story of the knowledge, art and ingenuity of Australia’s First Nations peoples — told like never before.

Full book, Climate Crisis as a Challenge for the Humanities: A Reader, edited by Karin Esders.

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

The trade of wild animals as pets is now playing out on our phones.

The researchers discovered a hidden world of life among the roots of Chile’s ancient alerce trees. Here’s why that’s important The towering conifers of Chile’s southern rainforests do far more than shape the skyline. Research in Biodiversity and Conservation reveals that these ancient trees are hubs of hidden biodiversity, highlighting their crucial role in the forest ecosystem. The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to many unique and important species, including an

Five of the best books on ecology, as recommended by the snow leopard expert and conservationist Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi

Brazil rejected visas for two planned US envoys, alleging that Washington was seeking to shape Brazil's upcoming presidential election. The development adds to a deepening political tension between Br...

Join the search for the elusive cassowary, a big bird that plays an outsized role in maintaining its rainforest home

Brazil has denied visa requests for two Trump administration officials who planned to travel to the country to cast ‌doubt on the integrity of its electoral system, two Brazilian officials with knowle...

A selection of the winners, runners-up and highly commended photos from awards that offer a window into landscapes some may never encounter

The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.

What people believe about choice and responsibility shapes what they think prison is for.