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Paul Ehrlich, often called alarmist for dire warnings about human harms to the Earth, believed scientists had a responsibility to speak out

Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, who died March 13, 2026, in Palo Alto, California, was a scientific crusader whose dire predictions about population growth, world hunger and environmental collapse made headlines and sparked controversy for...

Ocean bacteria team up to break down biodegradable plastic

Biodegradable plastics could help alleviate the plastic waste crisis that is polluting the environment and harming our...

AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here’s how to fix it

It’s day two of the Women and the future of science conference at the Royal Society in London, but...

From Idaho to MIT, on a quest to cut methane emissions

Amid the hum of milking equipment and the shuffle of cow hooves, PhD student Audrey Parker and...

Former dairy farm in Somerset could become research centre

Honeygar Farm is one of the few areas in the UK that still holds deep lowland peatland. Source link

How sewage treatment plants could handle food waste, sparing landfills and the climate

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive.Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of food waste are discarded...

In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America’s

Americans have a reputation for being bad at world geography, and the current U.S. administration is no exception, particularly when it comes to correctly identifying what is – and is not – part of the...

We don’t know if AI-powered toys are safe, but they’re here anyway

Even the most cutting-edge AI models are prone to presenting fabrication as fact, dispensing dangerous information and failing to...

Can species evolve fast enough to survive as the planet heats up?

For the first time, we have seen a species that was in decline due to extreme weather recover through...

BBC Inside Science – Is the Earth warming faster than we expected? – BBC Sounds

Available for 34 daysThis week new research suggests that in recent years the Earth has been warming faster than we predicted. But scientists are undecided on whether this change is going to be permanent. Laura Wilcox, Professor of Aerosol-Climate...
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