Author of Power plants James Palmer on biofuel, vegetal labour, the adaptability of nonhuman and how we can enjoy reaching net zero.

If the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere declines, the Southern Ocean is likely to begin emitting more carbon than it absorbs, prolonging global warming

The oldest specimens at one of the world’s greatest botanical collections predate Darwin. Now it is open to anyone with an internet connection

Abstract. Environmental change is a fundamental concern across the humanities and social sciences. This Intersection explores the changing interrelationshi

Abstract. The hydrological basis of peatland restoration reveals inherent problems with uniformly ‘scaling up’ conservation while retaining the social prac

This paper presents a dialogue on the meaning and uses of rewilding, with a focus on Britain, from the perspectives of an ecologist and human geographer. Traversing the concepts of historical baselin....

Lancaster University is launching a new ‘Food for Nature and Society' doctoral training programme to tackle our contemporary food system crises, while also protecting our planet.

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

On the AI bubbles.

Manchester University Press is known globally as a publisher of Humanities and Social Sciences research. We currently publish over 170 books each year, as well as seven journals.

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate these biases ?

Alex Loftus (King’s College London) on Laurie Parsons’ Climate Hegemony: Confronting the Politics of Environmental Impasse Read Review

Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...

Does anything matter if we’re done for? We are not the first to wonder. Contemporary fictions are preoccupied with...