Environmental Protection
Toxic air pollution in Europe started with ancient Romans
Ancient Romans, those masters of engineering, increased concentrations of atmospheric lead tenfold in Europe.
Andean bears are poached mercilessly for a silly reason
Spectacled bears are being driven extinct because of superstition and quackery.
We need to understand people if exotic pets are the problem
There’s long been concern about the exotic pet trade, but scientists don’t know as much as they’d like about the economic, social, and ecological factors that drive the trade – especially when it comes to people making decisions that lead
Extreme heatwaves are harbingers of the world to come
Even by Indian standards the temperature has been extreme in recent days.
Climate change caused mass death among Alaskan puffins
In 2016 the bodies of several thousand tufted puffins washed up on the beaches of Saint Paul Island in Alaska.
We’ll ‘need a moral compass’ for tackling climate change
The new compass should not be a static set of rules but a dynamic and reflexively evolving framework.