We are told the natural world is ‘breaking down’. But forests don’t work like aeroplanes or human hearts

iSpotnature.org, a pioneer in crowdsourcing the identification of species, has closed after 18y. I reflect on what we achieved and learned and where we failed.

It is completely untrue that Hebe - a plant genus found in New Zealand – has transitioned, but he be called Veronica now.

YouTube video by Dan Abrahams

Will gardening solve all the world’s problems?

It may be juvenile and rude to make fun of people’s names, but I submit that there is an innocent exception to this: nominative determinism.

Publishers need to more adventurous in the formats for the books they publish. Here are some ideas, inspired by a flooded book collection.

Writing is one of the safest forms of self -amusement

Philippines takes first step toward approving rice with increased iron and zinc

Trillions of insects embark, largely unnoticed, on epic journeys every year across mountain ranges, deserts and seas, and it is only now, as their numbers suffer huge declines, that scientists are tra...

The extinction risk posed by artificial superintelligence should be front-page news every day. Here we collate the stories, spanning seven decades, that should have made the headlines.

Bloom said that Shakespeare shaped the modern mind. This stunning clip shows once again that Shakespeare said it better than anyone, and the distance of time only makes the achievement more astonishin...

Jonathan Silvertown (ECT trustee/ University of Edinburgh) writes about the pre-history of the RainDrop long-term experiment.

A cooperative history of life