What would it take to rebuild economics around the natural world?
30 July 2025
Saving the planet means factoring nature into our economics, argues Partha Dasgupta, in a book with fascinating ideas. But does it take passion to make people listen?
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A rich new history of our obsession with extracting Earth's resources
28 May 2025
Philip Marsden's book Under a Metal Sky is an engrossing look at how we have excavated key metals and rocks over the millennia. It's a story shot through with awe, power, greed and hubris
Mike Berners-Lee's solution for the polycrisis may be just too hard
26 March 2025
A Climate of Truth is a penetrating and enlightening analysis of the many crises we face. But it demands impossible standards of flawed human beings, finds Graham Lawton
From doomy prophecies to epic dystopias, we are suckers for end times
26 February 2025
Despite facing real existential threats like climate change, we remain too fascinated by the end of the world, argues a new book
Vaclav Smil's take on how to feed future populations has one big flaw
20 November 2024
How to Feed the World, Vaclav Smil's "big numbers" book about future food supply, fails to address the impact of climate change
The dilemma of mining more metals so we can ditch fossil fuels
13 November 2024
In his new book, Power Metal, journalist Vince Beiser provides a balanced briefing on the race for the resources that will shape our technological future
Why do we burn more coal and wood than ever, asks a provocative book
6 November 2024
In More and More and More, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz argues that tackling climate change means rethinking our history of energy consumption – and exposing the green transition as a fiction
Bestselling graphic novel is a whistlestop tour of the climate crisis
16 October 2024
Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain's World Without End is a frenetic and funny take on global warming
All hail London’s urban jungle as it becomes first national park city
17 July 2019
With impressive biodiversity and ecosystems, London should set a trend for metropolises everywhere as it becomes the first National Park City in the world
When disaster strikes, it's survival of the sociable
8 May 2013
In the drive to climate-proof cities, we can't just focus on buildings. Social infrastructure is just as important, says sociologist Robert Sampson
