After Disney closed one of its major studios, animation is under pressure in pandemic Hollywood
What the closure of Blue Sky studios means for the future of cartoons
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Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth’s climate than cold war predictions – even with fewer weapons
Climate modelling in the 1980s offered the first glimpses of what might lie beyond a nuclear war.
The first farmers often made landscapes more biodiverse – our research could have lessons for rewilding today
Scientists analysed thousands of years of pollen data and made a surprising discovery.
Woolly mice are a first step to resurrecting mammoths, but there’s a very long way to go
It will take a lot more genetic science than a few tweaks to hair length to make a mammoth from its closest living relative, the Asian elephant.
Extremophiles: resilient microorganisms that help us understand our past ‑ and future
How do organisms survive extreme conditions – and how can their adaptations help us develop better technology?
The largest flood in Earth’s history burst through Gibraltar and Sicily and refilled the entire Mediterranean in just a few years
New evidence supports theory of ‘Zanclean megaflood’ 5 million years ago.
Three things historical literature can teach us about the climate crisis
Literature of the past can help us to make the cultural shift that’s necessary to address climate change.
Five climate change science misconceptions – debunked
Misinformation and lies are regularly used to undermine the science of climate change – here’s how to see through the fog.
Prehistoric communities off the coast of Britain embraced rising seas – what this means for today’s island nations
New research has mapped sea-level rise around the Isles of Scilly over the last 12,000 years.
History’s crisis detectives: how we’re using maths and data to reveal why societies collapse – and clues about the future
Historian and complexity scientist, Dan Hoyer, examines why past societies collapsed when faced with crisis, while others founds ways to survive and flourish.
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