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
19 February 2025
Millions of years after humans vanish, fossil clues showing how we lived and dominated the planet may confuse future civilisations, says a new book by Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz
30 October 2024
Forget Armageddon-sized rocks, just one of 25,000 smaller asteroids could destroy a city on Earth. How to Kill an Asteroid by Robin George Andrew shows how science plans to save the planet
21 August 2024
James Lovelock's hypothesis that our planet is a living entity is well known. Ferris Jabr's new book Becoming Earth takes it a step further
7 August 2024
The dynamics of how plants and animals change Earth is central to this last book in a trilogy by Other Minds author and "scuba-diving philosopher" Peter Godfrey-Smith
5 June 2013
In Arming Mother Nature, Jacob Darwin Hamblin argues that environmentalism is rooted in cold war plans to abuse nature for military ends
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
5 November 2012
A San Francisco ballot could lead to Hetch Hetchy reservoir being drained and restored to a wilderness to match its iconic neighbour
1 July 2009
From saving Baghdad zoo to rescuing rogue elephants, it's no wonder Hollywood is planning a film about maverick conservationist Lawrence Anthony
17 November 2008
Controversial doomsday predictions published in a 1972 book are in line with real-world patterns, suggests an analysis of 30 years of data
